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‘Maestro’ is basically ‘Raging Bull,’ that’s what you should watch instead
Maestro is a biopic of Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper, who also writes, directs and produces), an American conductor/composer who wrote a lot of, you know, he was really famous. It says here he was the first American composer to receive international … Continue reading
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Del Toro’s dark fantasy a darker reality in ‘Nightmare Alley’
10/10 Nightmare Alley is a macabre masterpiece of despair, cynicism and sin. It would be too simple to call this writer/director/producer Guillermo del Toro’s best work, but it is certainly his most refined and most cruel. End of the line, … Continue reading
Clint Eastwood’s ‘Mule’ feels amateurish
1/10 After 37 movies in the director’s chair, not including ones he only produced or starred in, 88-year-old Clint Eastwood remains a cultural icon who commands the respect of his peers and viewership, but with every new movie he directs, … Continue reading
‘Star is Born’ not great, will probably win best picture
6/10 A Star is Born is the kind of predictable, pretentious Oscarbate that I want to despise with every fiber of my being, but I can not. Everything about this movie tells me I should hate it, but it is … Continue reading
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Tagged #american horror story, #lady gaga, #oscarbate, A Star is Born, bradley cooper, Carrottop, Sam Elliott, The Hunting Ground
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‘Vol. 2’ not as good as first, but with new and different merits
7/10 In August 2014, the first Guardians of the Galaxy burst into theaters as a wildly different offering from the MCU. From the formula that was finally beginning to grow stale — and kept right on doing so with its next … Continue reading
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