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The mere mention of “A Guy Ritchie Film” evokes differing reactions from everyone, whether casual fans or considered part of the cognoscenti. Most think immediately of his first two breakout feature films – Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. Both are wittily-written and cannily-directed stories based in London’s criminal underworld, dealing with unsavory types […]
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(This review was originally published at Gunaxin on October 13, 2017.) Don’t go into The Foreigner expecting a high-flying, ass-kicking martial arts-fest. It’s as much of an action movie as 1992’s Patriot Games, another political thriller surrounding the violence between Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom. Granted, between 1992 and 2017, strides have been made […]
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I’m not a new-generation video game fan, which is probably why the charm of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (hereafter referred to as simply Valerian) was lost on me. In previous reviews for Pacific Rim and Kong: Skull Island, I decry the overuse of computer-generated imagery (CGI) when it becomes the story as […]
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Here’s what pains me about The Bye Bye Man – despite its flawed superficial choices, it has a brilliant story, being a curious musing on the nature of evil. Does it come from within or without? Does it live in our hearts or in our minds? In the case of The Bye Bye Man, it […]
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One of the most brilliant and unnerving thrillers to hit mainstream theaters in some time, “The Gift” marks the writing/directing feature debut of Joel Edgerton, who made his mark starring in such films as “Warrior” and “Animal Kingdom”, and has proven equally effective on both sides of the camera here. He’s penned a memorably haunting role for himself as […]
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