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West Side Story (2021)::rating::4.5
A s a lifelong Spielberg aficionado, I'm honestly a little shocked it's taken him this long to tackle a musical.  His movies have always relied on elaborate, ambitious shots that are both sweepingly cinematic and mathematically precise expressions of visual lyricism.  And that's to say nothing of John Williams' booming motifs bursting from the speakers.…
Nightmare Alley (2021)::rating::3.5
W ithin Guillermo del Toro's ambitious, eccentric Nightmare Alley, two very different movies form an awkward coexistence:  For much of its first half, we see the dark, sprawling topography of a Tim Burton fever dream, set during the Great Depression, where carny lifers try and carve out some meager slice of happiness.   Gradually, that gnarled…
CODA (2021)::rating::3.5
T he title for CODA is a fascinating play on words:  In the context of this film, its most obvious use is an.acronym--Child of Deaf Adults.  But a coda is also a musical term, representing the end of a musical composition, wherein the piece finds its resolve.  As a dramedy, CODA centers on a teenage girl's coming of…
Spencer (2021)::rating::3.5
From the opening scene, Spencer announces itself as a sizzling slice of historical fiction.  Put another way, this is an imaginative portrait of Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart), painted against the backdrop of real events. While that approach does absolve the film from having to tether itself to the truth, Spencer still riffs on the same Diana…

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