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Movie Review: “Dallas Buyers Club” Will Sell You

“Well, that was uplifting.” Thus spake disparagingly a woman who looked like Sarah Silverman in about twenty years as she exited from a showing of “Dallas Buyers Club.” The picture stars Matthew...

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Movie Review: “Out Of The Furnace” And Into The Cauldron Of Controversy

One is brought to shuddering terror by the depiction of an insular, degenerate, inbred population of mountain people frighteningly personified by Woody Harrelson in director Scott Cooper’s “Out of the...

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Movie Review: “Inside Llewyn Davis” – More Or Less 4th Street

Watching the Coen brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis,” about the Greenwich Village folk music scene in the early 60’s, my memory was nostalgically jogged. Read more → The post Movie Review: “Inside Llewyn...

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Movie Review: “Saving Mr. Banks” Earns Our Interest

Because director John Lee Hancock’s “Saving Mr. Banks” springs from Disney, and is about the legendary impresario’s attempts to secure the rights to P.L. Travers’s “Mary Poppins,” I expected a frothy...

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Movie Review: “The Wolf Of Wall Street” – Grandma, What A Big Stock Portfolio...

I approached Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” with trepidation --- ‘gosh, three hours long…that’s a sentence, not a movie’--- but emerged from the thoroughly entertaining, fastest moving 179...

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Movie Review: “Grudge Match” Takes Good-Natured Jabs At Golden Agers

Director Peter Segal’s “Grudge Match,” starring Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone as deeply rancorous former boxers who never fought that ultimately deciding bout some thirty years ago, serves up...

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Movie Review: “Her” Is Programmed To Entertain He, She And It

Oh, to be 17 or 18 again, and blown away by a potentially transformative, epiphanic film like Spike Jonze’s “Her.” Life-affirming, bursting with originality and full of the promise that there is indeed...

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Movie Review: “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” – Don’t Volunteer

If you had never ever seen an action/spy/thriller, then it’s quite possible director Kenneth Branagh’s “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” based on characters created by Tom Clancy, would wow you…at least...

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Movie Review: “The Invisible Woman” – Barely Worth Seeing

Maybe Ralph Fiennes, who plays Charles Dickens in “The Invisible Woman,” a quasi-biopic about the legendary author’s secret relationship with his much younger mistress, Nelly (née Ellen Ternan),...

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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: Insane Is More Like it

If it were indeed the future, and we had the technology to download the cogent and savory core of director George Miller’s highly ambitious, postapocalyptic bedlam without having to suffer its long,...

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