Guy Ritchie Struggles With Tone
If you squint, you can kind of make out the type of movie Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre wants to be. Had everything gone right here, the end result would be a light-hearted riff on the Mission: Impossible template that…
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A Promising Idea And A Great Ensemble Cast Can’t Stop This Romp From Floundering
Audiences know Guy Ritchie can direct action, they know he can write quotable, pithy dialogue, and they know he can create memorable characters. However, for the most part, “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre” either fails to deliver or under-delivers on…
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Soul of the Ocean | Film Threat
SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! I’m an avid scuba diver, so I watch a lot of movies about the ocean to learn more about what I see on my trips into the big blue. Soul of the Ocean is easily…
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A Flat Adaptation of the Book
I read Daisy Jones & the Six way back when it first came out in 2019. My copy — signed by author Taylor Jenkins Reid, after I went to a reading of hers in London — is one of my…
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An Unforgettable Meditation On Friendship & Boyhood
Close is a portrait of before & after, of the intimacy of friendship & the devastation of losing it, with an astonishing performance at the center. Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele in Close. Underneath the Belgian summer sun, Léo…
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Din Djarin Is on a Path of Redemption
After an extended absence, The Mandalorian has finally returned with its exhilarating Season 3 premiere, which sees Din Djarin (voiced by Pedro Pascal) picking up where things left off in The Book of Boba Fett. If you skipped his two-episode…
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The Teachers’ Lounge (Das Lehrerzimmer)
BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! The Teachers’ Lounge (Das Lehrerzimmer) is a German film, directed by Ilker Çatak who co-wrote it with Johannes Duncker, about Carla Nowak (Leonie Benesch), an enthusiastic young math and physical education teacher for young teens at a…
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Creed III Review | Flickreel
Creed III doesn’t stray far from the formula that the original Rocky established in 1976. Echoes can also be found behind the scenes. Just as Sylvester Stallone stepped up as a director for Rocky III, Michael B. Jordan takes the…
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Emilia Clarke & Himesh Patel Shine In Fun Animation
Home Movie Reviews The Amazing Maurice Review: Emilia Clarke & Himesh Patel Shine In Fun Animation Many current animations look the same & The Amazing Maurice is no different. But what it lacks in technical imagination it makes up for…
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A Promising Start Weakened by Too Many Characters
The CW’s Superman & Lois, starring Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch as the titular duo, begins with the Kent-Lane family moving from Metropolis to Clark’s hometown of Smallville. In the first two seasons, the famous couple has faced world-ending threats…
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The Warm Season | Film Threat
SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! The universal becomes highly personal — and overwrought special effects take a welcome holiday — in Janet Grillo’s The Warm Season, a science fiction drama of human-extraterrestrial contact that impresses with humor and heart. Reviving…
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A Worthy Sequel 41 Years Later
When I was in the fourth grade, my teacher decided to show the class Young Frankenstein. Not for any pedagogical reason, of course. It was the end of the school year, everyone was tired, and one of my classmates had…
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