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Eddie Redmayne is Terrifying in The Good Nurse
Eddie Redmayne as Charlie is absolutely terrifying in this role. From his stoic persona to his quirky physicality, this actor illustrates once again why he is one of the major…
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Anna Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes Are Savory Bites in The Menu
Anna Taylor-Joy's performance is exquisitely fabulous when paired with the intensely focused Fiennes and together they are a dish to be served with care and expertise. She really does have…
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Goodnight Mommy is a Low-Wattage Horror Remake
Being a fan of Naomi Watts, my hopes were that this film would be worthy of her spectacular talents. It gives me no pleasure to say this remake just doesn't…
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a Twisty, Tale of Intrigue and Greed
With Glass Onion, it's the women who shine consistently throughout. Having been a fan of Monae's transition from musician to acting in such notable projects as Harriet, Hidden Figures, Moonlight…
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John Boyega Will Gut You to the Core in Breaking
What resonates strongly for me is the blatant disrespect and dismissive attitude given toward people of color in authority and in distress . When Brian yells out "I want the…
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Idris Elba Wrestles with His Conscience and King of the Jungle in BEAST
What I most appreciated about Ryan Engle and Jaime Primak Sullivan's screenplay is the realism of the relationships between all the characters with an image of a Black man rarely…
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Nope Pushes All The Buttons and Boundaries with Divisive Sci-Fi Flick
Nope is deliciously divisive, yet subtly speaks to the predatory, egregious manner Hollywood preys on creatives for the sake of greed, money and fame. One may not be able to…
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Daisy Edgar-Jones is a Quiet Fire in Where The Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing is a tad bit predictable in a few spots, but for the most part it will send you home with your head spinning from all the…
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Ethan Hawke is Deliciously Terrifying in the Black Phone
Mason Thames (Finney) and and Madeline McGraw (Gwen) are spectacular to watch as their breadth of skills navigating such emotionally wrought material is executed with such maturity and skill. Ethan…
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Emergency Turns Race Relations into Biting, Gut Wrenching Satire
Directed by Carey Williams and screenplay by K.D. Dávila, Emergency boldly and unapologetically lays out race relations, in all its ridiculousness, on the table for all to see like a…
