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Film Review – The Way Back (2020)
In a recent interview with The New York Times, Ben Affleck candidly speaks about, among other vulnerable subjects, his ongoing struggles with alcoholism. Falling off the wagon is a demoralizing experience for anyone, but having these failures broadcast across the internet for clicks has got…
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Film Review – Uncut Gems
Taking a breather from both his multi-million dollar Netflix deal and basketball shorts, Adam Sandler again reminds us how good he can be outside of his Happy Madison orbit as Howard Ratner, a charmingly idiotic gambler and star of the Safdie Brothers’ Good Time follow-up,…
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Film Review – Knives Out
Do you need a sweet reprieve from family ugliness this Thanksgiving? A getaway from canned cranberry sauce, drunken uncles and political squabbles? Good news, friends, Rian Johnson is here to pick you up with a heaping helping of fun in the form of Knives Out,…
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Film Review – Honey Boy
The perils of child stardom is the subject of any number of tabloid magazines and clickbait listicles. Morbid curiosity seekers can’t help but be fascinated when they learn their former favorite Disney icon gets a DUI or has to take a job at The Gap…
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Film Review – Doctor Sleep
Nearly 40 years after Stanley Kubrick scarred a nation with his loose interpretation of Stephen King‘s The Shining, director Mike Flanagan picks up the story in an overall pretty good adaptation of King’s own 2013 published sequel, Doctor Sleep.
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Film Review – The Lighthouse
A24‘s newest haunt, The Lighthouse, is the crustiest two-hander you’re likely to see this year. Full of flatulence and vinegar, it is packed to the gills with dialect that would make Peg-Leg Pete sit and take notice and features a singular bravura performance from one…
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Film Review – It Chapter Two
Two years after the smashing success of 2017’s It (now the highest grossing horror movie of all time), Andy Muschietti‘s It Chapter Two has come along to provide some catharsis and tie up loose ends. Unfortunately it becomes hopelessly tangled in its attempt to do…
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Film Review – Good Boys
Max, Thor and Lucas are indeed good boys, albeit good boys with filthy mouths. Best friends by default (same school, parents are friends, live within a two block radius of one another), they’re each facing their own struggles while trying to survive the sixth grade.…
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