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Review of Atomic Blonde (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 26 Jul 2017

It's not that all the mayhem leading up to that mega-brawl is negligible, mind you; it's just that the big donnybrook/shootout in Atomic…

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Review of Lady Macbeth (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 26 Jul 2017

It is a completely original adaptation of Leskov set in England -- never predictable in any way and, in its final inevitable scene, icily brilliant…

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Review of A Ghost Story (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 26 Jul 2017

A Ghost Story is a minor movie miracle…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 19 Jul 2017

So many of us wanted Dunkirk to be truly great. It's too virtuous and not vulgar enough to be great…

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Review of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 12 Jul 2017

It's moving and smart and jammed with action you care about rather than yawn at…

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Review of Baby Driver (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 29 Jun 2017

Go to the movies, sit down, be entertained for 113 minutes, crank up the car radio on the way home - with luck, on a perfectly clear summer night…

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Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 29 Jun 2017

Coppola's is a very good movie but a small and forgettable one…

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Review of 47 Meters Down (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 15 Jun 2017

This is, as such things go, a first-rate summer scare throwaway…

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Review of Rough Night (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 15 Jun 2017

Enough of all these female entourage movies…

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Review of The Mummy (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 07 Jun 2017

What struck me as delightful about this Mummy is the moment a portly Russell Crowe, with his voice deepened to Orson Wellesian octave,…

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Review of Wonder Woman (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 31 May 2017

There's so much to like about Patty Jenkins' long-awaited Wonder Woman that I understand those who've gone off the deep end praising it…

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Review of The Lovers (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 24 May 2017

The pleasure of watching two mature actors negotiate every inch of irony and rue and repressed wryness in this tale is sufficient to make…

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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 17 May 2017

Scott is a great filmmaker. The sights, as always, are remarkable. The suspense is superb -- even more than it was the last time in Prometheus…

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Review of Snatched (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 11 May 2017

Snatched is the most disappointing movie comedy since the all-female Ghostbusters…

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Review of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 10 May 2017

Guy Ritchie has just given us the trashiest and most impudent vulgarization of King Arthur anyone is ever likely to see in a zillion-dollar…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 04 May 2017

After watching all that jaunty kidcom adventure stuff, I kept getting the feeling that there was a '70's after-school special locked up…

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Review of Chasing Trane (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 03 May 2017

This is pretty close to the Coltrane doc of our dreams…

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Review of A Quiet Passion (2016)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 03 May 2017

This is an admirable and moving film but, unfortunately its virtues don't begin to include some of the greatest virtues of its subject…

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Review of Colossal (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 26 Apr 2017

It's all patent nonsense of the most foolish kind which is exactly what makes the movie's straight-ahead delivery as entertaining as it is…

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Review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 19 Apr 2017

The cast is formidable but the commanding performance here is by Winfrey playing the part of a woman whose instincts are good but whose…

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