Author Archives: reelentropy

‘You Won’t Be Alone’ slides silently through theaters, one of year’s best

Posted on June 7, 2022 by reelentropy

9/10 You Won’t Be Alone made a little more than a quarter million in theaters, but what’s the point of writing about movies all the time if I’m not going to make time for one of the year’s best pictures. … Continue reading →

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‘Everything Everywhere’ closer to one thing in one place

Posted on June 6, 2022 by reelentropy

5/10 They say the two things you can’t avoid are death and taxes. Even in a movie about jumping through the multiverse, one that built an advertising campaign around introducing the concept to audiences, the characters can’t find their way … Continue reading →

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An ‘X’ -rated time capsule

Posted on June 6, 2022 by reelentropy

8/10 X is a period piece from behind the camera, a celebration of long-expired tastes to tell a story contrasting the generation that popularized them, the passive changes time brings and the active reactions to those changes. Texas, 1979, the … Continue reading →

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‘Compartment No. 6’ not a movie for 2022 or the 21st Century

Posted on June 6, 2022 by reelentropy

4/10 On Feb. 8, Compartment No. 6, a slice-of-life train ride across the Russian countryside and the Finnish-language submission to the Academy for the Best International Film of 2021 and one of 15 shortlisted so that voters might actually watch … Continue reading →

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Pixar ‘turns red’ for sexy streaming generation

Posted on June 6, 2022 by reelentropy

8/10 In 1995, Pixar’s Toy Story wrenched animation into the 21st century early, bringing action the type of action figures that were already growing outdated as playthings to life in a way that simply wouldn’t have been possible in another … Continue reading →

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