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Movie Reviews: The Shape of Water, The Last Jedi, Ferdinand, Wonder Wheel

Posted By on December 15, 2017, 7:36 AM

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Star Wars dominates the multiplexes, but a couple of celebrated directors also appear in local theaters this weekend.

Only Vittorio Storaro's cinematography salvages the guilt-deflecting storytelling nonsense of Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel (pictured). The potential for a resonant tale about toxic mas-cow-linity is lost in goofy slapstick in the animated Ferdinand.

In this week's feature reviews, Rian Johnson crafts a blockbuster examination of why we fight in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the fanciful fable in Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water falls victim to its creator's limitless imagination.
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Scott Renshaw

Scott Renshaw
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 Scott Renshaw has been a City Weekly staff member since 1999, including assuming the role of primary film critic in 2001 and Arts & Entertainment Editor in 2003. Scott has covered the Sundance Film Festival for 25 years, and provided coverage of local arts including theater, pop-culture conventions, comedy, literature,... more

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