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A Simple Favor (2018)::rating::3
A Simple Favor surgically slices into a subject that’s ripe and ready for satire:  The modern mommy.  It builds a labyrinthine murder mystery within the suburban topography of playdates and school projects.  Unfortunately the plot careens wildly through some dark terrain and forces the audience to endure jarring and incongruous shifts in tone.  Strong performances…
Boogie Nights (1997)::rating::4
  Alternately cheery and dreary, Paul Thomas Anderson’s porn de force shines a blacklight on the adult film industry, and its awkward transition into the era of VHS and HIV.  Mark Wahlberg—sporting a prosthetic trouser hog—nails it as impressionable fuck boy Dirk Diggler.  Burt Reynolds is his match as the Colonel Parker who ushers his very own…
Unforgiven (1992)::rating::4.5
T he Western genre is replete with hard-asses who prefer to mow down their enemies and ask questions later. Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven dwells on the men who’ve lived long enough to ask the questions and arrive at some unsettling answers.  For them, killing isn’t the only way, just the only way they’re any good at.  If the…

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