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Jan 2022

Last Night in Soho (2021)::rating::3::rating::3::rating::3

Y our tolerance for this wacky, atmospheric thriller will depend on your affinity for the freewheeling era known as Swinging London. If the thought of a film built around the…

Jan 2022

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King Richard (2021)::rating::3.5

Let me begin this review with a dose of unvarnished honesty: I've never much liked tennis. In my defense, I grew up in a small town where the three…

Jan 2022

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Belfast (2021)::rating::4

As with Alfonso Cuarón's brilliant Roma, Belfast serves as a conduit for writer-director Kenneth Branagh to explore his own childhood. Both films feature the fading, fragile innocence of youth, juxtaposed with…

Dec 2021

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The Matrix Resurrections (2021)::rating::2.5

I ronically, The Matrix Resurrections trades heavily on nostalgia for that pioneering first film, while also embodying many of the same flaws that doomed its sequels: For all the explosions and…

Dec 2021

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Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)::rating::4.5

It captures everything great about the Spider-Man franchise thus far, while also deftly smoothing over a few glaring flaws.

Dec 2021

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The Power of the Dog (2021)::rating::4.5

L ike many of the greatest Westerns, Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog is a film built on paradoxes. Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch) is an eccentric cowboy who somehow projects charisma…

Dec 2021

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The Last Duel (2021)::rating::3.5

When The Last Duel tanked at the box office, director Ridley Scott threw a raving hissy fit. He blamed the film's financial failure on millennials with their iPhones and the Facebook…

Dec 2021

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The Beatles: Get Back (Episodes 2 & 3)::rating::0

For this week’s Cinemavino, Sean and I continue our look at Peter Jackson’s mammoth documentary, The Beatles: Get Back. Jackson did an outstanding job of ironing 160 hours of raw footage into…

Dec 2021

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Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)::rating::2

This film is better than its predecessor, but making anything worse than Venom would’ve been a challenge that probably requires a deal with Satan.

Dec 2021

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The Beatles: Get Back (2021)::rating::4.5

"S unrise doesn't last all morning," a wise man once sang to us. "A cloudburst doesn't last all day." At their best and brightest, the Beatles found a way to…

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