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Section: Movie Reviews

Great cast can’t save humdrum thriller ‘Ava’

  • Friday, Feb 26, 2021 ·  

For an inexpensive action-thriller, ‘Ava’ is not a bad watch.

“The Map of Tiny Perfect Things” falters with tired time-loop trope

  • Friday, Feb 19, 2021 ·  

If there is anything more heartbreaking than unrequited love, it’s the death of a loved one. The new Amazon Prime film “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things” deals gently with both subjects, although, maybe a bit too gently to ultimately be affective.

‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ early contender for best movie honors

  • Friday, Feb 12, 2021 ·  

Look for the movie to garner a number of nominations on the awards circuit for directing, writing and acting.

Arkansas premiere of ‘Minari’ set for Feb. 11 at 112 Drive-In in Fayetteville

  • Friday, Feb 5, 2021 ·  

The movie, which won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, will also feature a pre-recorded question-and-answer session with director Lee Isaac Chung and Jeff Nichols.

Washington not enough to save ‘The Little Things’

  • Friday, Jan 29, 2021 ·  

Denzel Washington makes every movie he’s in better.

‘One Night in Miami’ a standout debut for director King

  • Friday, Jan 22, 2021 ·  

The movie is an impressive directorial debut for the Oscar and Emmy-winning actress, whose varied career includes projects like If Beale Street Could Talk and the HBO series Watchmen.

‘Locked Down’ is nearly as insufferable as its title implies

  • Friday, Jan 15, 2021 ·  

The film’s plot is a good one, but the devil truly is in the details.

Disney offers family-friendly football movie in “Safety”

  • Friday, Jan 8, 2021 ·  

Safety fits in well with the type of family home entertainment Disney has been offering since the 1950s.

Clooney directs, stars in bleak sci-fi flick “The Midnight Sky”

  • Friday, Jan 1, 2021 ·  

Reviews of The Midnight Sky (Netflix), Soul (Disney+) and Wonder Woman 1984 (HBO Max).

Streaming Wars: Disney Plus, HBO Max battle for Christmas audience with release of ‘Soul’ and ‘Wonder Woman 1984’

  • Wednesday, Dec 23, 2020 ·  

While Netflix remains the dominant streaming channel of the moment, two major players are each firing major salvos across the streaming decks on Christmas Day.

Gibson plays a gun-toting Santa in ‘Fatman’

  • Friday, Dec 18, 2020 ·  

Give it a decade and Fatman might end up being a cult Christmas classic. Weirder things have happened.

‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ and ‘Mank” are well-made but tough films to digest

  • Friday, Dec 11, 2020 ·  

Hillbilly Elegy is too effective and heartbreaking, bringing up thoughts and emotions I’d rather let rest.

WB’s streaming gambit shakes foundation of movie theater industry

  • Friday, Dec 4, 2020 ·  

All 17 of the 2021 lineup of Warner Bros. films will stream for 31 days on HBO Max while also playing in theaters.

The Aeronauts amounts to a beautiful snoozer / Simultaneous Wonder Woman release gives fans options

  • Friday, Nov 20, 2020 ·  

The cinematography is truly breathtaking throughout the movie, but the clumpy dialogue weighs the movie down like a battalion of sandbags.

‘Love, Guaranteed’ offers little more than by-the-numbers romance

  • Friday, Nov 13, 2020 ·  

The film is likable enough to veg out on the couch with your significant other or a tub of ice cream, whichever is applicable.

Imitative script fails charming leads in ‘Holidate’

  • Friday, Nov 6, 2020 ·  

If you like romantic comedies, you might turn this movie into a drinking game of sorts when you spot a plot device pilfered from another movie.

‘The Witches’ conjures potent message

  • Friday, Oct 30, 2020 ·  

Life has its heartbreaks, setbacks, and tragedies that can’t be erased, but it’s our attitude that makes our lives either wonderful, awful, or something in-between.

Capraesque quality shines in Sorkin’s ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’

  • Friday, Oct 23, 2020 ·  

Sorkin’s scripting work is at the same time smooth and biting, expertly detailing the issues at hand.

‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’ more bark than bite

  • Friday, Oct 16, 2020 ·  

The film is written, directed, and stars Jim Cummings, whose debut film ‘Thunder Road’ won him much deserved attention on the film festival circuit in 2018.

Sandler, pals celebrate the season in ‘Hubie Halloween’

  • Friday, Oct 9, 2020 ·  

Horror movie fans will notice dozens of nods to classics like Halloween, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, among others.

Derivative ‘Palm Springs’ lacks charm and purpose

  • Friday, Oct 2, 2020 ·  

I dove into the recent Hulu movie Palm Springs virtually blindfolded.

Charming Brown makes ‘Enola Holmes’ worth a watch

  • Friday, Sep 25, 2020 ·  

The movie was set to open in theaters last spring as a Warner Bros. release, but the closures due to COVID-19 prompted the sale to Netflix.

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