Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: The Super Mario Bros. Movie Features All the Characters, Set Pieces of the Storied Game, Just None of the Actual Story

And I thought I was a little bit lost during the recent Dungeons & Dragons movie. I don’t live under a rock, so I know a little something about the […]

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Review: Like the Restaurant Culture it Aims to Skewer, The Menu Is More Style than Substance

I haven’t been lucky enough to manage a seat at Alinea, Chicago’s only three-star Michelin restaurant, but friends who’ve been still talk about the experience years later. They remember the […]

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Review: The Northman Is Visceral, Brutal Filmmaking with the Budget to Prove It

Gritty, bloody, visceral and front-loaded with a need for vengeance, the latest work from writer/director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) is so immersive and authentic, you’ll feel the muck […]

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Review: Fantasy and Reality Collide in Edgar Wright’s Intriguing, Haunting Last Night in Soho

Last Night in Soho

Taking a walk down a decidedly darker path than he has in the past, director/co-writer Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho alternates between the swinging days of London in the […]

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Review: Bad Boys Will Be Bad Boys in Well-Acted but Messy, Muddy Here Are the Young Men

Here Are the Young Men

It could be a sign of aging on my part, but I seem to have lost my patience for films about young people running around causing general mayhem and screwing […]

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Review: Marie Curie’s Life in Science Is Less Than Illuminating in Radioactive

Radioactive

If there ever was the perfect match of filmmaker and source material, having Marjane Satrapi (who adapted and directed her own graphic novel about growing up in Iran, Persepolis) direct […]

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Review: An Austen Heroine for a New Generation in Pretty, Pastel Emma.

Emma

Nearly every scene in Emma., the latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel about a selfish young woman who sees the error of her meddling ways, looks as if it would be […]

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Review: The Scares Grow Tiresome in Marrowbone

Marrowbone

Having just appeared in the darkest of dark comedies, Thoroughbreds, as well as such works as The Witch and Split, actor Anya Taylor-Joy is one of the more reliable new faces […]

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Review: Thoroughbreds Introduces the Wealthy, Privileged…and Murderous

Thoroughbreds

From first-time writer-director Cory Finley comes a unique brand of horror film that isn’t about scares or bodycounts. Thoroughbreds is about the creeping tension that accompanies a murder so meticulously […]

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