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Glen Powell Stars In Richard Linklater’s Sexy, Delightful Comedy Tailored To His Talents [Venice]
That Glen Powell is a gem of an actor is nothing new, but twenty years into his career, and after stealing the show in a bunch of films and series, we can all finally stop praying for him to get…
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I Am Rage Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NOW ON VOD! Thirsty for the finest cheap thrills? Chug down an ice-cold six-pack of “Who’s the bitch now?” with the rapid-fire revenger I Am Rage, directed by David Ryan Keith. It opens in a cellar with Margret (Marta Svetek)…
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King of Killers Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NOW IN THEATERS! In the action/thriller King of Killers, Kevin Grevioux brings his graphic novel to life following a family-man assassin in the fight for his and his daughter’s lives. Marcus Garan (Alain Moussi) is a former member of an…
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‘Welcome to Wrexham’ Season 2 Review
When news first broke about actors Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds buying a Welsh soccer team, it was so random that it felt like a prank. Then, when FX came out with Welcome to Wrexham after the roaring success of…
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What’s My Name Again? Featured, Reviews Film Threat
In Spencer Zender’s film, What’s My Name Again? We are brought back to the mid-1980s to Southern California’s beach bum hippie culture, where Bo (Ryan Winn) finds out he needs to make a life-defining choice as he turns 18. This…
Read more![Woody Allen’s Clumsy But Passable Dramedy Is More Mediocrity From His Waning Late-Stage Period [Venice]](https://www.filmibee.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/80062-COUP_DE_CHANCE_-_Lou_de_La__ge_and_Melvil_Poupard-1.jpg)
Woody Allen’s Clumsy But Passable Dramedy Is More Mediocrity From His Waning Late-Stage Period [Venice]
I remember reading years ago that whenever the time comes for Woody Allen to make a new film, he opens a drawer in his desk and picks at random from the piles of scripts he has written over the years.…
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An Egypt Affair Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Marlin Darrah’s An Egypt Affair has all the sense and aesthetic of a bygone adventure novel. And despite an expected overindulgence in melodrama and contrived plotting, the film is still quite amusing. However, what tilts the story from so-bad-it’s-good to…
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Tülin Özen‘s Striking Performance Drives Selman Nacar’s Gripping 24-Hour Moral/Legal Drama [Venice]
You don’t need to know much about the criminal justice system to understand its broken, biased, and grim nightmare— unfair, unjust, unforgiving, a bureaucratic Kafka-esque hellscape you never want to be trapped within. Turkish filmmaker Selman Nacar (“Between Two Dawns”)…
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Ghost Town Featured, Reviews Film Threat
The Western film has long been a Hollywood staple genre since the days when real cowboys would congregate at the corner of Sunset and Gower (Known as Gower Gulch) in Los Angeles to get a day’s work as an extra.…
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Riz Ahmed & Jessie Buckley Test Their Love Connection [Telluride]
TELLURIDE – We’re just gonna get the bad news out of the way first. There is perhaps no movie more personally – and emphasis on “personally” – disappointing at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival for this critic than Christos Nikou’s…
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A Boat for My Brother Featured, Reviews Film Threat
A Boat for My Brother carries a lot of emotional weight. I mean this in both the sense of poignancy as well as baggage. One would not be surprised by the film’s poignancy. After all, it is a documentary about…
Read more![William Friedkin’s Deceptively Simple Swansong Is Another Morbid Excavation Of Human Weakness & Cruelty [Venice]](https://www.filmibee.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/80080-THE_CAINE_MUTINY_COURT_TRIAL_-_Actor_Jason_Clarke.jpg)
William Friedkin’s Deceptively Simple Swansong Is Another Morbid Excavation Of Human Weakness & Cruelty [Venice]
A quote by William Friedkin himself opens “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” describing the film, as well as all the filmmaker’s other works, as being about “the thin line between good and evil.” This line is all the thinner here, in…
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