All posts tagged "Drama"
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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...
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BRUISED (2021) – Review
So, did last week’s big release, KING RICHARD, spark your interest in “female-centric” sports flicks? Maybe just a...
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BELFAST – Review
Kenneth Branagh gives us one of his best films, and his most personal, with BELFAST, a partly autobiographical...
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BETA TEST – Review
In 1973, Erica Jong wrote FEAR OF FLYING, a wildly popular erotic novel that introduced us to the...
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MASS – Review
Is there anything harder for a parent than the loss of a child? That heartbreak is at the...
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THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK – Review
The highly-anticipated “Sopranos” prequel THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK finally arrives in theaters and proves that it was...
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OLD HENRY – Review
The classic Western rides again, with Tim Blake Nelson playing a quiet widowed farmer with teen-aged son on...
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BLUE BAYOU – Review
Is it fair that a small child, legally adopted from another nation, is responsible for paperwork errors about...
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SMALL ENGINE REPAIR (2021) – Review
Although the sun’s squeezing the last drop of sweat from the Summer season, this week’s new release reminds...
