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Dec 2018

Mortal Engines (2018)::rating::2.5::rating::2.5::rating::2.5

The makers of Mortal Engines clearly went to great lengths to render a fully three-dimensional world, only to populate it with two-dimensional characters. This is perfectly embodied in a scene where the…

Dec 2018

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The Favourite (2018)::rating::5

"We breed wars," Eleanor of Aquitaine says in The Lion in Winter. "We carry it like syphilis inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten."…

Dec 2018

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)::rating::3.5

Comic book writers often combat story stagnation by fiddling with their continuity and canon. Realities get warped, deceased characters come back to life, and origin stories get scuttled for brand…

Dec 2018

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The Mule (2018)::rating::3

Clint Eastwood's The Mule makes a fascinating companion piece to Robert Redford's recent swan song, The Old Man and the Gun. Both films center on crinkly geriatrics who stroll their way through a…

Dec 2018

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Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)::rating::3.5

An unspoken dialogue exists between the makers of modern animated films and the parents who haul their kids to see them: Buy tickets to our movie, and we will offer…

Dec 2018

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Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)::rating::4.5

A legend has sprouted about the day Bob Dylan met an aging, ailing Woody Guthrie. "You sound more like me than I do," was the elder bard's supposed summation of…

Dec 2018

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Robin Hood (2018)::rating::2

"F orget everything you've seen." The awkward narration that opens Robin Hood asks a tall order of its audience: Cast out your memories of Errol Flynn's buckling of swash, Disney's cute,…

Dec 2018

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Green Book (2018)::rating::4

T he story goes that in 1963, Sam Cooke and his band were turned away from a hotel in Shreveport, La. Cooke, arguably the most important soul singer of the…

Nov 2018

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A Private War (2018)::rating::4.5

"W ar is cruelty," William Tecumseh Sherman once said. "There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over." Sherman's cold, 19th…

Nov 2018

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Creed II (2018)::rating::3.5

C reed II somehow manages to be completely entertaining, despite the fact that it's the sequel to a spinoff from a franchise that itself spawned six movies over three decades.…

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