All posts tagged "Crime"
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FATAL RAID – Review
THE FATAL RAID is a contemporary Hong Kong action flick offering the best and the worst of this...
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THE FOX (“Die Fuchsin”) – TV Review
The title of this German television series refers neither to the critter hunted by British aristos, nor the...
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CHERRY (2021) – Review
Here’s a film whose behind-the-scenes (and one in “in front”) story may be just as, if not more,...
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PIRANHAS – Review
This week’s new release (well, new to most of us, since it played several film festivals, including St....
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LES MISERABLES (2019) – Review
Oh, oh. Didn’t we just endure another retelling of this classic story? And in song this last time?...
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THE IRISHMAN – Review
This is the ‘big one”. Really, there may be no other way to truly describe this new epic...
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TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID – Review
This film’s premise may promise many flights of fantasy and endearing whimsical humor, but what it delivers is...
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LITTLE WOODS – Review
“Welcome to Hard Times”. That’s the name of a classic Western flick from over fifty years ago. But...
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ASH IS PUREST WHITE – Review
A searing epic of a gangster couple’s romance set against a backdrop of a changing China spanning near...
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DESTROYER – Review
This is not how we are used to seeing Nicole Kidman. Kidman plays snarling, violent, even grizzled...
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SHOPLIFTERS – Review
Once again a lauded international filmmaker is taking an unfiltered look at family life. You might think that...
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CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? – Review
In CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, Melissa McCarthy gives a stunning dramatic performance in the strange but true...
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AMERICAN ANIMALS – Review
AMERICAN ANIMALS opens with a screen showing the familiar words “this is based on a true story” but...
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YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE – Review
Joaquin Phoenix plays a traumatized veteran who has built a career out of tracking down and saving missing...
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THE SNOWMAN – Review
Director Tomas Alfredson helmed a pair of outstanding films, the gripping ground-breaking Swedish vampire film LET THE RIGHT...
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THE DINNER – Review
Richard Gere stars as Stan Lohman, a congressman running for governor, who invites his brother Paul (Steve Coogan)...
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THE WANNABE – The Review
It’s rare that I find myself questioning the judgement of Martin Scorsese, but after having seen THE WANNABE,...
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BLACK SOULS – The Review
Like many genre films, the category of mafia films is often branded with certain expectations. Granted, not all...
