Movies
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Movie review: ‘Fist Fight’ punches itself in the faceFeb 17, 2017 12:01 am - Everything about this movie is summed up in one of its first lines of dialogue. It’s delivered, by high school English teacher Andy Campbell, to himself, in total s...
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Movie review: ‘Toni Erdmann’ has inspired momentsFeb 13, 2017 10:00 pm - Life’s too short; stop and smell the roses. That’s the central premise behind the anointed “Toni Erdmann.” Simple, right? So why does it take a gruel...
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Movie review: Foreign Language Oscar nominee ‘Toni Erdmann’ is oddly entertainingFeb 12, 2017 10:00 pm - There are many more than just two actors in this very long (162 minutes), German-language, Oscar-nominated mixture of comedy, drama, and pathos. But don’t worry. It...
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Movie review: Zany ‘LEGO Batman’ has got plenty of legsFeb 10, 2017 12:01 am - Three years, almost to the day, after the release of “The LEGO Movie,” here comes “The LEGO Batman Movie,” unleashed upon a not-so-unsuspecting publi...
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Movie review: A well done welcome back to John Wick’s worldFeb 10, 2017 12:01 am - When the opening scene of a movie consists of a high-speed car and motorcycle chase through the nighttime streets of New York City … well, that movie has got my att...
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Movie review: ‘LEGO Batman’ has some laughs, but lacks depthFeb 10, 2017 12:01 am - It’s not easy being Batman. Sure, you might be swimming in money and own your own island like Bruce Wayne. But what do you come home to when the crime fighting is t...
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Movie review: ‘Fifty Shades Darker’ is its own kind of tortureFeb 08, 2017 10:00 pm - The so-called “romantic” retread “Fifty Shades Darker” is such torture I’d rather be bound up in Christian Grey’s Red Room of Pain, gagged ...
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Charlie Day keeps a ‘Sunny’ disposition in talking about ‘Fist Fight’Feb 08, 2017 10:00 pm - Charlie Day is not a method actor; he’s more of a what you see is what you get kind of guy. The characters he’s best known for — Charlie Kelly on “It...
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Movie review: A ‘Salesman’ that demands attentionFeb 07, 2017 10:00 pm - When you blend the 20th century’s finest playwright, Arthur Miller, with perhaps this century’s finest filmmaker, Asghar Farhadi, you can expect something clos...
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Movie review: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ gives fresh voice to James BaldwinFeb 03, 2017 12:01 am - Much about the civil rights movement has been written, spoken and performed, but seldom has it been as powerfully packaged as it is in “I Am Not Your Negro.” O...