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Review: The Luckiest Man in America Isn’t Exactly a Character Study, but Strong Performances Win the Film

Based on the true and seemingly inconsequential story of Michael Larson (played by Paul Walter Hauser), an unemployed ice cream truck driver who made a bit of a splash on […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 4, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Matt Damon Teams Up with the Other Affleck for a Middling, Very Boston Heist Drama

    For some, the best news about the new film starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, The Instigators, is that it’s not a sequel to their original pairing, the 2002 Gus […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • August 9, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Pixar Channels Familiar Emotions (and Several Charming New Ones) for Inside Out 2, the Rare Sequel Success

    For many animation fans, the original Inside Out represents not only the best that Pixar has to offer, but also the depths to which animation as an art-form can go […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 14, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Animated Fable Orion and the Dark Gets the Charlie Kaufman Treatment

    Whenever a writer you admire decides to tackle a story (in this case, an animated film) aimed at younger people, the fear is always that they will dumb things down […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 5, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Disney Aims to Create a Following for Cruella; Barely Manages More than Great Costumes

    Cruella

    On the surface, there’s nothing terribly objectionable about the idea to make a film centered on the villain of Disney’s classic animated feature One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Cruella De Vil […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • May 26, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Songbird Imagines the Next COVID Pandemic in Dull, Tasteless Terms

    Songbird

    When the trailer for the Michael Bay-produced Songbird dropped, there was a loud chorus of “No” heard round the world. Set just a few years in the future and in […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 11, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods Is a Movie for This Moment

    Da 5 Bloods

    Timing is everything. Then again, great filmmaking is great filmmaking no matter the surroundings. But in the case of director Spike Lee’s latest, Da 5 Bloods, the film feels so […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 10, 2020
    • Film & TV , Music , Review

    Review: Clint Eastwood’s Style (and Politics) Put the Story of Richard Jewell Into Perspective

    Richard Jewell

    Like many of the films Clint Eastwood has directed in the last 10 years or so—since about Gran Torino on—his latest, Richard Jewell, is an expertly made movie with a […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 11, 2019
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