Growing up is hard to do. Set in the sleepy suburbs of Sacramento, Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” really captures the anxiety and angst involved in shedding your adolescence and plunging into adulthood. With a previously unachieved ...
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Saoirse Ronan Pulls An Ellen Page In “Lady Bird:” A Critical Exchangecore
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Critical Exchangecore: Colin Farrell Reckons With “A Sacred Deer”
We’re back with a fresh Critical Exchangecore hot off the presses! Director Yorgos Lanthimos (who helmed “The Lobster” last year)’s “The Killing Of A Sacred Deer” tells the tale of how a successful surgeon, played by ...
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Can You Hear Us Above This Noise? An “Altered States” Critical Exchangecore
The late English director Ken Russell must have been a huge proponent of watching Fellini films really, really blitzed. His 104 minute-long tribute to mushrooms, “Altered States,” is a relatively cogent exploration of the drug ...
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Brynner on the Loose in “Westworld” ’73: A Critical Exchangecore
It may surprise you to learn, dear reader, that HBO’s blockbuster smash series “Westworld,” about to embark on its second season, was actually a remake of a 1973 Michael Crichton/Yul Brynner sci-fi classic. Armani Barron ...
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“King Kong vs. Godzilla” ’63: A Critical Exchangecore
Are you pumped for “Kong vs. Godzilla” in 2020, dear reader? Featuring two slick, lifeless digital beasties destroying major cities but leaving each other virtually unscathed, just in case there’s enough interest to justify a ...
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“Atomic” Bore: A Critical Exchangecore
Armani Barron and Alex Kirschenbaum dissect whether or not the sleekly-marketed Charlize Theron retro-spy adventure “Atomic Blonde” is actually cool… or if it was all just a disappointing tease (the name of this post might ...
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Box Office Futures Listcore: Denzel And Fuqua Reunite!
You guys ready for YET ANOTHER REBOOT THAT WASTES THE TALENT OF ITS STARS AND DIRECTOR? Well, unfortunately, it looks a lot like you are. Weekend: September 23rd-25th, 2016 Big New Releases: “The Magnificent Seven,” ...
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Box Office Futures Listcore: Battle of the Horrible Threequels
Weekend: September 16th-18th, 2016 Big New Releases: “Blair Witch,” “Bridget Jones’s Baby,” “Snowden,” “Hillsong,” “Mr. Church” (limited) Big Holdovers: “Sully,” “The Wild Life,” “When the Bough Breaks,” “Suicide Squad,” “Don’t Breathe,” “Kubo and the Two ...
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Box Office Futures Listcore: Tom and Clint Look To Land Safely In First
Potential Donald Trump supporter (and supporter of… racism?) Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks kick off Hollywood’s awards season this week with the hotly-anticipated bio pic “Sully.” Can they pull in “American Sniper” numbers with another ...
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Box Office Futures Listcore: Can “Morgan” Scare “Breathe” Out Of Its Perch?
This Labor Day (the official end of Hollywood’s summer, although in the real world summer ends with the fall solstice in a few weeks), some unheralded new releases try to sneak in for a piece ...