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MaryAnn Johanson
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- Blog, Buzz Blog December 7, 2023
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Film Reviews: New Releases for Dec. 8
The Boy and the Heron, Maestro, Eileen, Leave the World Behind
- Culture, Film Reviews December 6, 2023
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Feature movie review: MAESTRO
Bradley Cooper's Leonard Bernstein biopic avoids cliché and offers electrifying audacity
- There's a breathtaking boldness—arrogance, even—at work in here, even more so than with A Star Is Born, which was already bursting with Cooper's immense confidence as a filmmaker.
- Culture, Film Reviews April 12, 2023
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Feature movie review: Rare Objects
A grounded approach to trauma helps director Katie Holmes' adaptation overcome an overstuffed narrative.
- It is honest and unassuming, a story about kindness and gentleness that is never insipid or sentimental.
- Culture, Film Reviews September 7, 2022
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Fall Features
A preview of the cinema offerings coming to big and small screens before year-end.
- Cinema this autumn is chock full of popcorn entertainment, Oscar hopefuls (with some overlap between the two) and fun flicks for the whole family to enjoy over the holidays.
- Culture, Film Reviews August 17, 2022
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I'm a Big Kid Now
Orphan: First Kill improves a bit on the original, but with a problem in its central character.
- Well, I was not expecting this: Orphan: First Kill, a prequel to 2009's horror mystery Orphan, is better than its progenitor.
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Chillin' Like a Villain
The Bad Guys mixes snappy, snarky animated fun with a few important lessons.
- Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? Everyone! Even if he wears a sharp suit, drives a fancy car and pulls bank robberiesfor fun? Especially then!
- Culture, Film Reviews February 23, 2022
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No Love Lost
The classic romantic story of Cyrano is buried in poor choices.
- You know, the fleshiness of dough, the sensuality of kneading, the warmth and visceral pleasure of fresh bread.
- Culture, Film Reviews February 2, 2022
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Drawn from History
Flee uses animation to tell a harrowing refugee story that continues to feel all-too-familiar
- This is a film grounded in tough emotion and hard realities, impressionistic sketchesdepicting things half-remembered from the past, or a simple, almost graphic-novel style laying a difficult present before us.
- Culture, Film Reviews September 29, 2021
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Extended Family
The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark feels redundant rather than revelatory
- Memorable, unusual and, most, of all ironic, because this is a movie about mob guys who are the furthest things from saints.
- Culture, Film Reviews August 25, 2021
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Lockdown Love
Together finds urgent emotion in a COVID-era relationship on the rocks.
- I was not ready for the emotional roller coaster that is Together. It is funny and sad, sometimes in the same breath.
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Film Reviews: New Releases for Dec. 8
The Boy and the Heron, Maestro, Eileen, Leave the World Behind
December 07, 2023
Feature movie review: MAESTRO
Bradley Cooper's Leonard Bernstein biopic avoids cliché and offers electrifying audacity
December 06, 2023
