All posts tagged "Drama"
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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING – Review
So now we’re at the mid-point of the cinematic “travel-palooza” that has taken up most of the spots...
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GIRLS TO BUY – Review
The lurid title and poster for GIRLS TO BUY, a mostly-subtitled Polish dramatic film, are rather misleading. This...
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MR. MALCOLM’S LIST – Review
The streaming hit “Bridgerton” has opened a new style of period romance, a fantasy historical romance in which...
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ELVIS – Review
In a rhinestone-studded, cinematic extravaganza, director Baz Luhrmann gives Elvis Presley his signature dazzle treatment in an energetic...
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EIFFEL – Review
Architect and structural engineer Gustave Eiffel built not only Paris’ iconic Eiffel Tower, but designed the interior structure...
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“First Responders” Season One – TV Series Review
The first season of the subtitled Swedish TV series “First Responders” introduces us to a surprisingly diverse group...
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INFINITE STORM – Review
It’s said truth is stranger than fiction, and one strange tale based on true facts inspired INFINITE STORM,...
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COMPARTMENT NO. 6 – Review
Two strangers on a train, a young Finnish woman (Seidi Haarla) and a rough Russian miner (Yuriy Borisov),...
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CYRANO – Review
Peter Dinklage playing Cyrano in a new film adaptation of the beloved story sounded like an excellent idea....
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“Piece Of My Heart” (“Pala Sydamesta”) – TV Series Review
The title “Piece Of My Heart” (“Pala Sydamesta” in Finnish) looks like it belongs on the poster for...
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JOCKEY – Review
When tossed off a horse and thrown into the hospital, what makes you get back on that horse?...
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SUNDOWN – Review
Things are not always as they appear. In Mexican writer/director Michel Franco’s SUNDOWN, Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg...
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PARALLEL MOTHERS – Review
Pedro Almodovar is famous for Oscar-winning dramas like TALK TO HER and ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER but the...
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A HERO – Review
Debtor’s prison brings Charles Dickens to mind for most of us but this Dickensian nightmare appears to be...
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THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH – Review
Macbeth is Shakespeare’s most murderous play, and a favorite of actors, even if they won’t say its name....
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THE TENDER BAR – Review
Every family has some quirkiness but this one more than most, with Ben Affleck as a bartender uncle...
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THE LOST DAUGHTER – Review
Olivia Colman gives a gripping, multi-layered performance as an enigmatic middle-aged woman, who seems haunted by her past,...
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HAND OF GOD – Review
Memory can be a powerful thing. The vivid autobiographical tale from Oscar-winning writer/director Paolo Sorrentino, THE HAND OF...
