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Movie Review: “The Critic” Reviles, Flatters, And Cajoles To Create A Compelling Narrative That Presages Modern Show Business

Thomas TunstallSeptember 15, 2024September 15, 2024

A powerful London theatre critic lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme with deadly consequences.

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Ian McKellen’s “The Critic” Arrives In Theaters September 13

Irish Film CriticJuly 30, 2024July 30, 2024

London, 1934. Jimmy Erskine (Ian McKellen) is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails to meet his standards. When the owner of the Daily Chronicle newspaper dies, and his son David Brooke (Mark Strong) takes over, …

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Movie Review: De Vil Wears Prada In Disney’s “Cruella”

Alex SavelievMay 26, 2021May 20, 2021

  A live-action feature film following the evil exploits of Cruella de Vil, the villain from the Disney film, “101 Dalmatians.”

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“Sherlock Holmes” 4K Ultra HD Review: Years Later, The Reimagining Of The Iconic Sleuth Still Holds Up

Eamon TracyUpdated on September 2, 2020September 2, 2020

  Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.

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Movie Review: Heart-Pounding “1917” Elevates The WWI Genre In Breathtaking Fashion

Thomas TunstallUpdated on December 6, 2019December 6, 2019

  Two young British privates during the First World War are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop 1,600 men, and one of the soldier’s brothers, from walking straight into a deadly trap.

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Movie Review: “1917” Offers The Tragedy Of War Like An RPG Game With All-Too-Real Touches

Adrina PalmerDecember 5, 2019December 5, 2019

  Two young British privates during the First World War are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop 1,600 men, and one of the soldier’s brothers, from walking straight into a deadly trap.

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Movie Review: “1917” Absolutely Astounded Me

Daniel PappasUpdated on December 2, 2019December 2, 2019

  Two young British privates during the First World War are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop 1,600 men, and one of the soldier’s brothers, from walking straight into a deadly trap.

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4K Ultra HD Review: “Shazam!” Is Hugely Entertaining And Proves That DC Actually Does Have a Sense Of Humor

James McDonaldJuly 14, 2019July 14, 2019

  We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s case, by shouting out one word – SHAZAM! – this streetwise fourteen-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult superhero Shazam.

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Movie Review: You Won’t Fall In Love With “Stockholm,” Though It May Make You Feel Like A Captive

Alex SavelievApril 13, 2019April 13, 2019

  Based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the New Yorker as the origins of the ‘Stockholm Syndrome.’

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