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Movie Reviews by Todd Wofford— Funny, informative movie reviews

Dec 2021

The Power of the Dog (2021)::rating::4.5::rating::4.5::rating::4.5

L ike many of the greatest Westerns, Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog is a film built on paradoxes. Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch) is an eccentric cowboy who somehow projects charisma…

Nov 2021

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After We Fell (2021)::rating::0.5

After three horrifying After movies, I'll go ahead and say it: Nothing about any of this saga is romantic. If anything, these ugly, miserable, pedantic stories represent an…

Aug 2021

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Reminiscence (2021)::rating::2.5

Joy also delivers some truly remarkable visuals that pop up like small pockets of self-contained brilliance. At the same time, Reminiscence is one of those confounding movies that will only make you…

Aug 2021

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Stillwater (2021)::rating::3

That shift in focus results in a movie that’s extremely well-acted and passionately made, but also overlong, emotionally aloof, and jarringly uneven. In an awkward irony, Stillwater navigates some…

Jun 2021

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Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)::rating::4.5

Such a tragedy provokes a tangled thicket of emotions, and Burnham spends 87 minutes hacking through them all, searching for something funny.

May 2021

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Georgetown (2019)::rating::3.5

Some audiences may find this film to be too mannered and deliberate, but I enjoyed watching Christoph Waltz’s character spin the webs that will eventually ensnare him.

Apr 2021

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Moffie (2019)::rating::3.5

The first two-thirds of Moffie feels like a bucket of cold ice water, and most of the world could use a good dousing. That greatness dissipates into mere goodness, but…

May 2020

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Capone (2020)::rating::2

On one hand, this represents a new angle on the Capone legend. Unfortunately, this is also an eccentric, unpleasant film that gets lost telling a story nobody was asking to…

Nov 2019

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Harriet (2019)::rating::3.5

For all its flaws, Harriet remains a film worth seeing. Tubman’s life occupies a crucial place in American history.

Nov 2019

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Motherless Brooklyn (2019)::rating::2.5

In Motherless Brooklyn, writer-director-star Edward Norton paints with brilliant brush strokes, but he doesn’t know when to step back from the canvas.

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