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First new kid Cha-Cha slides into town
7/10 Time is doing its thing. Cooper Raiff is a Dallas native who’s five years younger than I am, I drive past his high school a few times a week, and he made one of the biggest deals in Sundance … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple TV+, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Cooper Raiff, Dakota Johnson, Sundance FIlm Festival
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Coming-of-age done right in thoughtful, sweet ‘CODA’
8/10 CODA is the archetypical coming-of-age story done properly, with an earnest, complex mix of emotions. There’s a well of authenticity here that’s usually absent from the genre and brings out the best it has to offer. Gloucester, Massachusetts- Ruby … Continue reading
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Tagged Academy Awards, Apple+, CODA, Emilia Jones, Oscars, Slumdog Millionaire, Sundance FIlm Festival, The Artist, The Green Book
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The Möbius Strip: Bryan Singer accused by four more, SAG awards
It was a whisper-quiet weekend at the box office, with the top 12 making only $79.8 million overall, the third worst number going back a full calendar year. A big reason why was a lack of exciting new releases – … Continue reading
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Tagged #black panther, #DC comics, #kevin hart, Bohemian Rhapsody, Bryan Singer, Bryan Singer sexual assault allegations, Glass, Glenn Close, Into the Spider-Verse, Jim Carrey, Leaving Neverland, Remi Malek, SAG awards, Serenity, Sundance FIlm Festival, The Atlantic, The Kid Who Would be King, The Upside
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‘Searching’ a great story, not right for its gimmick
6/10 When I saw the first Unfriended, I thought it had the potential to advance film as an art from in a way that very few movies can. Four years later, Searching, which is also entirely composed of shots on … Continue reading
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Tagged #unfriended, Chronicle, Harold & Kumar, John Cho, Searching, Sundance FIlm Festival
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Razor-sharp script, shots race across screen in Sundance favorite
9/10 With Hollywood seemingly unable to produce more than a few movies a year without obvious gaffs, Thoroughbreds is a refreshing spurt of disciplined, technically perfect filmmaking and the birth of a new star in writer/director Cory Finley. In a … Continue reading