All posts tagged "Thriller"
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UNDERWATER – Review
A casual glance at this film’s poster art may lead you to think you’re headed back to the...
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DARK WATERS (2019) – Review
Summer’s not the only season where heroes rule the multiplex. Well, that’s the main time for the fictional,...
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21 BRIDGES – Review
Here’s a nice little break from the serious award-bait winter films and the heart-tugging holiday family flicks. I’m...
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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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THE NIGHTINGALE – Review
The writer/director of THE BABADOOK, Jennifer Kent, follows up the chilling horror film with a gripping drama set...
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SWORD OF TRUST – Review
There’s a sword but not much trust at the start of Lynn Shelton’s oddball indie comedy SWORD OF...
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WHITE CROW – Review
A “white crow” is a Russian idiom meaning a misfit, an oddball, someone who does not fit the...
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EVERYBODY KNOWS – Review
Penelope Cruz plays a Spanish-born woman who returns with her two children to the rural Spanish village where...
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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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I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW – Review
Peter Dinklage plays a man who has made a comfortable life alone in a post-apocalyptic world where he...
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LIZZIE – Review
Lizzie Borden and the gruesome murders of her parents remain in the public imagination, due in part to...
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SICARIO 2 DAY OF THE SOLDADO – Review
“Sicario” means a hitman in Mexico, and the U.S.-Mexico border is the setting for the violent thriller SICARIO...
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SHELTER – JFF 2018 Review
St. Louis Jewish Film Festival at Plaza Frontenac Cinema Monday, June 4, at 7 pm Israel • English,...
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BEIRUT – Review
Jon Hamm finally gets the leading man role he has long deserved, in the Middle East-set thriller BEIRUT....
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THE SHAPE OF WATER – Review
Magical, evocative THE SHAPE OF WATER blends Cold War thriller, romance and monster movie genres in director Guillermo...
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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 FOREIGNER – Review
Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan face off in action thriller THE FOREIGNER. Director Martin Campbell...
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MOTHER! – Review
Darren Aronofsky’s new film MOTHER! is a nightmare of a movie, but it is intended to be. It...
