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Free Solo (2018)::rating::4

M idway through Free Solo, rock climber Alex Honnold goes in for a brain scan.  Honnold is training to scale the granite face of Yosemite's El Capitan, without the benefit of ropes or harnesses.  A curious doctor pours over the test results, wondering if Honnold's singular determination and fearlessness can be pinpointed by science.  Sure enough,…

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Greta

Greta (2019)::rating::3

T he script for Greta seems a lot like a Frankenstein golem, a lumbering construct of thrillers plucked from the $1 DVD bin of a Walmart:  Fatal Attraction, Psycho, Single White Female, and many others get stitched together, forming a brand new monster in the process.  The movie that sits up and lurches off the table may…

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RBG

RBG (2018)::rating::4

L ate in RBG, we see a telling photograph of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor, the first two women appointed to the United States Supreme Court.  They sit in an opulent chamber, pleasant and prim, surrounded by imposing sculptures and paintings of male jurists.  These starchy old men, replete with bushy mustaches and flowing…

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2019 Oscar Picks::rating::0

"T his is  the 51st Academy Awards," said that evening's host, Johnny Carson.  "Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread over a four-hour show."  No one has ever described cinema's biggest night with such dry, succinct brilliance.  It seems every minute of glamour or grippingly candid emotion gets matched with another minute of bloated, boring…

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Alita: Battle Angel

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)::rating::3.5

All the expansive world-building in Alita: Battle Angel stands as the film's greatest strength and its greatest weakness.  James Cameron (co-writer/producer) and Robert Rodriguez (director) deliver a sprawling, digital landscape that boggles the mind in both its grandeur and intensive attention to every last visual detail.  Story-wise, so much table-setting happens in this movie that it…

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