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B+
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Inheritance
(2025)
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Burger smartly exploits the freedom of shooting with an iPhone13 in streets, markets, planes and trains. He makes exotic countries his special effects, their people his extras. It's conceptually brilliant. Dynevor's Maya is a believable badass rebel.
Posted Jan 25, 2025
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B
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Outlaw Posse
(2024)
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James Verniere
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Mario Van Peebles, son of film pioneer Melvin Van Peebles, revisits the American West.
Posted Mar 01, 2024
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A-
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Dune: Part Two
(2024)
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James Verniere
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Composer Hans Zimmer added a fire engoine to the horn section.
Posted Mar 01, 2024
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A-
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Io Capitano
(2023)
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James Verniere
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As new as today's news, as ancient as world mythology.
Posted Feb 23, 2024
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A-
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Pictures of Ghosts
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Cinema is where all things live again.
Posted Feb 23, 2024
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A-
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Perfect Days
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Yakusho delivers beatific performance. Laborare est orare.
Posted Feb 23, 2024
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B+
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Bob Marley: One Love
(2024)
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James Verniere
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Ben-Adir makes this well worth seeing. His ecstatic dancing is reggae's answer to Mick Jagger's gyrating goat.
Posted Feb 15, 2024
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A-
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The Taste of Things
(2023)
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James Verniere
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A lovely tale of cuisine and amor.
Posted Feb 15, 2024
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C-
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Madame Web
(2024)
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James Verniere
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A total stinker. Johnson seems to be rehearsiing, rather than acting in title role. From the people who brought us Morbius, no less.
Posted Feb 15, 2024
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B
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Out of Darkness
(2022)
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James Verniere
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The Scottish Highlands are the real star of this tale of Stone Age survival.
Posted Feb 09, 2024
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B
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Float
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Bang and the rest of the cast are appealing.
Posted Feb 09, 2024
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A-
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Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Another beautifully exhausive examination from wizard documentary Frederick Wiseman.
Posted Feb 09, 2024
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B+
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Sometimes I Think About Dying
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Ridley is a complete revelation as lonely Oregon singleton.
Posted Feb 02, 2024
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B
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Orion and the Dark
(2024)
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James Verniere
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Fun animated adventure until co-writer Kaufman cannot help himself and throws in a completely unnecessary twist.
Posted Feb 02, 2024
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C+
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Argylle
(2024)
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James Verniere
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Meaningless Bond knockoff from director with nothing to say Matthew Vaughn. Fun cast wasted on this. Even the cat is a bore.
Posted Feb 02, 2024
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A-
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The Promised Land
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Based on a true story, "The Promised Land" is a great Danish Western featuring Mads Mikkelsen and a breakout turn by Amanda Collin.
Posted Feb 02, 2024
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A-
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Origin
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Origin captures the acts of writing a book and living a life all at the same time, combining non-fiction and fiction filmmaking techniques, sometimes jarringly The film and Ellis-Taylor deserved Oscar consideration.
Posted Jan 26, 2024
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B+
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Miller's Girl
(2024)
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James Verniere
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Jenna Ortega's Cairo Sweet is the bayou Wednesday Addams.
Posted Jan 26, 2024
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B
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The Underdoggs
(2024)
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James Verniere
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Cast and production team are first-rate. It's the R-rated Bad News Bears.
Posted Jan 26, 2024
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B+
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American Star
(2024)
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James Verniere
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Ian McShane, an actor of tremendouis power and authority, holds this existential enigma together as we watch, enthralled.
Posted Jan 26, 2024
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C+
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I.S.S.
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Can we fix that darn abntenna once and for all?
Posted Jan 19, 2024
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B+
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The Teachers' Lounge
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Benesch is the film's standout, an award-worthy turn.
Posted Jan 19, 2024
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A-
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Driving Madeleine
(2022)
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James Verniere
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Dany Boon and Line Reaud make quite a power couple. The Pariis sightseeing is another plus.
Posted Jan 19, 2024
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C
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The Book of Clarence
(2023)
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James Verniere
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The Black Jesus Christ Superstar meets The Life of Brian, and you would expect something more interesting and astute than this rambling Biblical mess.
Posted Jan 12, 2024
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B+
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The Zone of Interest
(2023)
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James Verniere
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ery wll done and creepy, but also one-note.
Posted Jan 12, 2024
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B-
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Freud's Last Session
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Fine acting, even if it goes nowhere.
Posted Jan 12, 2024
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C+
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Mean Girls
(2024)
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James Verniere
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20 years ago, a great cast elevated Tina Fey's pop culture semi-classic. Today, it's tormented by banal music and down on its luck.
Posted Jan 12, 2024
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B+
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Memory
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Not to be confused with last year' Memory, Memory tells the story of two lost souls who fall in love. Chastain and especially the hirsute Sargaard are terrific.
Posted Jan 07, 2024
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A
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Society of the Snow
(2023)
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James Verniere
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One of the best survivial films ever made. Based on a true story. Nonprofessional cast is superb. Bayona has outdone himself, finally.
Posted Jan 07, 2024
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A-
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
(2023)
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James Verniere
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This new Chicken Run effort is another delightful stop-motion delight from the legendary Aardman studio.
Posted Dec 15, 2023
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A-
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Monster
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Kore-eda Hirokuzo captures the multi-layered drama, confusion and life-changing madness of early adolescence.
Posted Dec 15, 2023
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A-
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Poor Things
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Who knew Yorgos Lanthimos was the new James Whale. All hail the Bella Baxer of Emma Stone, she's alive alive.
Posted Dec 15, 2023
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B
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Wonka
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Chalamet is like an unusually handsome, polite and cleran Uber driver. Where are the deeply weird Roald Dahl wouches?
Posted Dec 15, 2023
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B+
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Fast Charlie
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Brosnan brings his brand of sly, flirtatious, reluctant heroism to the role. He and Baccarin make a good May/December pairing. Caan's last film.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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A-
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Merry Little Batman
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Maybe the best DC effort yet. This is going to become a Christmas tradition for many.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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B+
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Silent Night
(2023)
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James Verniere
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The silence in Silent Night is only vebal. We hear everything else, bullets, engines, grunts and punches.
Posted Dec 01, 2023
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B-
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Maestro
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Director and co-writer Bradley Cooper leads a great cast in Maestro, but makes a common, biopic mistake in depicting the great artist.
Posted Dec 01, 2023
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B+
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Candy Cane Lane
(2023)
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James Verniere
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The great Eddie Murphy leads fine cast in funTwilight Zone-like Xmas tale.
Posted Dec 01, 2023
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B
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Family Switch
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Not great, but cast, including Emma Myers of "Wednesday" fame, makes it fun.
Posted Dec 01, 2023
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A-
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Leo
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Much better than Disney's Wish. an enormous success.
Posted Nov 24, 2023
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A-
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Napoleon
(2023)
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James Verniere
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The canon should be nominated for an Aacademy Award. A brilliant spectacle.
Posted Nov 24, 2023
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A-
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Leave the World Behind
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Hang on. A great end of the world thriller.
Posted Nov 24, 2023
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C+
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In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
(2022)
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James Verniere
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Fripp's dyspepsia spoils the experience. That and the lack of King Crimson music.
Posted Nov 17, 2023
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C
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Completely unnecessary and mostly lifeless prequel. Davis is only saving grace.
Posted Nov 17, 2023
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B
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Dream Scenario
(2023)
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James Verniere
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The captain of the crazy ship is back with fitfully compelling "Dream Scenario."
Posted Nov 17, 2023
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B
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May December
(2023)
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James Verniere
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An interesting exercise, but lacking in Haynes' magic.
Posted Nov 17, 2023
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B+
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Rustin
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Colman Domingo owns this movie: triumphant performance.
Posted Nov 10, 2023
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B-
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The Marvels
(2023)
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James Verniere
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Not as dire as feared. The plot is a stinker. But standouts are Vellani and Shroff.
Posted Nov 10, 2023
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C+
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Kane
(2023)
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James Verniere
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There is so much driving, I got car sick.
Posted Nov 10, 2023
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A-
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The Stones and Brian Jones
(2023)
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James Verniere
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A brilliant exploration of the tortured soul of the founder of the Rolling Stones.
Posted Nov 07, 2023
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