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Robin Hood (2018)::rating::2
"F orget everything you've seen."  The awkward narration that opens Robin Hood asks a tall order of its audience:  Cast out your memories of Errol Flynn's buckling of swash, Disney's cute, flippant fox, and even Kevin Costner's wandering, wobbling accent.  Make room for this clunky, funky steampunk mishmash that delivers one mile of style for every…
December 5, 20180Comments
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Green Book (2018)::rating::4
T he story goes that in 1963, Sam Cooke and his band were turned away from a hotel in Shreveport, La.  Cooke, arguably the most important soul singer of the 20th Century, flew into a volcanic rage.  "They won't shoot me!"  He fumed.  "I'm Sam Cooke!"  But they could have and would have, if cooler…
December 1, 20180Comments
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A Private War (2018)::rating::4.5
"W ar is cruelty," William Tecumseh Sherman once said.  "There is no use trying to reform it.  The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."  Sherman's cold, 19th Century logic dictated that if women and children helped fuel the machine of war, then they should not be exempt from being trampled by it.…
November 30, 20181Comment
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Creed II (2018)::rating::3.5
C reed II somehow manages to be completely entertaining, despite the fact that it's the sequel to a spinoff from a franchise that itself spawned six movies over three decades.  If the first Creed was a strong character study and a worthy companion to the first Rocky, then this movie draws obvious inspiration from the gaudy, bombastic heave…
November 28, 20180Comments
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Instant Family (2018)::rating::3
T he life of a parent has been described as "all joy and no fun."  The act of having children trades the instant gratification of autonomous adulthood--the soft thrill of sleeping in or enjoying the stillness of a quiet home--for the macro-satisfaction of shepherding children along the precious milestones of life.  Instant Family depicts an…
November 27, 20180Comments
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Widows (2018)::rating::3.5
W idows begins with the post-mortem mayhem of a Reservoir Dogs-style heist gone horribly wrong.  Desperate men scream over the sound of sirens, their bodies soaked in blood and sweat.  After this scene, however, the movie goes in an interesting direction:  It's the aftermath of the aftermath, where a group of shell-shocked widows sift through the smoking…
November 16, 20181Comment

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