Movie Reviews
Culture Editor Murjani Rawls shares his thoughts on all the latest movie and TV releases.
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‘Air’ review: Who would have thought rooting for a billion-dollar sneaker corporation would be so entertaining?
Director Ben Affleck’s sorta-biographical telling of how Nike got Michael Jordan pleases with great performances from Matt Damon, Viola Davis, and more.
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‘Tetris’ review: You gotta fight for your right to distribute and monetize a classic video game
Espionage? World travel? Political gamesmanship? The Taron Egerton-led ‘Tetris’ seems to have it all.
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‘Blackberry’ review: Matt Johnson’s retelling of the once beloved and fallen handheld device wins in balance
Long before iPhones and Androids, the Blackberry had a massive market share. A film peers into the rise and fall.
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‘Self Reliance’ review: A million-dollar reality game is rooted in the unpredictable as a jolt to get a man to grow up
Jake Johnson’s take on a survival reality show brings a lot of thrills, but is unsure on where to land amongst it’s most prominent themes.
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‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ review: The heart is still there, but with lesser impact in a sequel that calls for more of everything
The sequel to 2019’s ‘Shazam!’ has the makings of what make the original work, but too many ingredients to see it through.
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‘If You Were the Last’ review: Anthony Mackie and Zoë Chao find love extremely far away from home
Two astronauts floating away in space for three years wonder contemplate relations and end up with something more.
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‘65’ review: What do you get when you have Adam Driver, space, and a whole lot of dinosaurs?
Well, a lot of ideas that wades into sci-fi and emotional territory without fully capturing either.
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‘Late Night With the Devil’ review: There’s no business like show business when horror and ratings get involved
David Dastmalchian plays a late night talk show host down on his luck and willing to take a big swing on a Halloween show.
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‘Evil Dead Rise’ review: A delightfully dreadful Deadite excavation that invades the city of angels
Writer/director Lee Cronin’s latest Evil Dead entry gives you all the blood, gore, and cheese-grater madness within an apartment building.
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‘Scream VI’ review: Slasher franchise spreads the news by excelling in character investment rather than trademark satire
The Scream franchise figures that it can make it anywhere if it can make it in the Big Apple.
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‘Palm Trees and Power Lines’ review: Jamie Peck’s directorial debut chronicles the nature of groomers and those they prey upon
Based on a 2018 award-winning short, a 17-year old girl named Lea falls into the insidious gaze of a 34 year named Tom.
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‘Nocebo’ review: The follies of capitalism, exploited labor, and ticks – oh my!
Eva Green stars as a fashion designer that falls mysteriously ill. The woman she meets with herbal cures has more up her sleeve than what the doctor ordered.
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‘The Strays’ review: Antagonist choice causes this British thriller to abandon it’s more intriguing commentary about racial identity
Writer-director Nathaniel Martello-White speaks to the crisis of racial plights, but The Strays forgets who the bad person is.
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‘Children of the Corn’ review: The kids still aren’t alright in this scattershot remake
Director Kurt Wimmer takes a crack at the 1977 Stephen King short story that’s high on gore, but skims on substance.
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‘We Have A Ghost’ review: Paranormal activity stylings falls just short of being a real winner
Director Christopher Landon gets David Harbour to play a mute ghost with unfinished business that could have been effective if it lessened the all the paths it ventures down.
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‘Cocaine Bear’ review: We have strayed far away from a wholesome Berenstain Bears story
Loosely based on a 1985 case, ‘Cocaine Bear’ provides plenty of drugs, dismembered limbs, and calamity that often falters.
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‘Creed III’ review: Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut provides a balanced and winning formula
The third instalment in the Creed franchise gives room to Adonis to both open and close chapters in an emotional study.
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‘Inside’ review: Willem Dafoe contends with the place of art while battling back claustrophobia
Director Vasilis Katsoupis’s concentrated thriller that ruminates of the value of art and asks a lot of it’s viewer in time.
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20 years of ‘Daredevil’: The director’s cut makes things a tad bit better in retrospect
While Ben Affleck’s Daredevil still stews in its peak 2000s superhero film juices, the director's cut gives a little more meat on the bone.
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‘The Son’ review: The performances can’t save this film from missing the mark on its mental health thesis
Hugh Jackman, Vanessa Kirby, and Laura Dern should be enough to elevate this family drama, but they aren’t.
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‘Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey’ review: This ain’t your Disney childhood Pooh bear
Your favorite honey-loving bear is angry, so be afraid, I think?
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania rotten tomatoes score
We take a look at what the public thinks of the latest Marvel movie.
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‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ review: Uneven tones hinder this phase five introduction
The third film in the Ant-Man story keeps the things you love and struggles to progress beyond that.
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‘The Whale’ moves between Brendan Fraser’s tenderness and a complicated message
The A24 drama boasts powerful performances even through some of its more difficult and muddy elements