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Review of Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 05 Jul 2022

What to make of this glorious, intergalactic mess…

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Review of The Black Phone (2022)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 22 Jun 2022

What makes The Black Phone stand out is how it perfectly captures what growing up was like in the often raw ’70s and an utter respect for…

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Review of The Janes (2022)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 07 Jun 2022

Lessin and Pildes do a masterful job of putting the Janes in historical context, seeing how their desire to offer safe abortions grew out…

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Review of Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 12 May 2022

The film handles Maverick’s personal stuff — wooing the barmaid, repairing his relationship with Goose’s kid — while also…

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Review of Father Stu (2022)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 12 Apr 2022

There’s always something a little off about Father Stu, a sense that the filmmakers have taken a lot of liberties with a real life to…

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Review of Morbius (2022)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 31 Mar 2022

The filmmakers — director Daniel Espinosa, hobbled by a meandering script from Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless — simply do not know what…

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Review of Deep Water (2022)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 16 Mar 2022

Deep Water, despite an all-star team behind it, barely makes a splash…

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Review of Lucy and Desi (2022)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 02 Mar 2022

Lucy and Desi traces the rise, union and collapse of this larger-than-life couple who made a fortune thanks to “I Love Lucy” and remade…

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Review of The Desperate Hour (2021)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 24 Feb 2022

As an acting exercise, it’s intriguing — barely any scene partners and all unfolding in real time…

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Review of Moonfall (2022)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 03 Feb 2022

After a bit of a slow start, “Moonfall” gets absolutely trippy in the last third as it details a mind-blowing alternative history to…

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Review of The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 28 Jan 2022

Visually and storytelling-wise it’s not a cut above much of what kids can watch on TV these days…

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Review of The King's Daughter (2022)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 20 Jan 2022

January is often where bad films are stashed, but “The King’s Daughter” isn’t just bad, it’s a cloying, cliched mess that’s not…

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Review of A Journal for Jordan (2021)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 21 Dec 2021

Washington earns his audience’s tears with an unrushed, unshowy style, letting an adult and very human relationship evolve on camera,…

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Review of The Tender Bar (2021)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 15 Dec 2021

The Tender Bar is a gentle, oddly crafted but loving look at men, fueled by a soundtrack of classics like Paul Simon’s “50 Ways to…

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Review of Red Rocket (2021)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 09 Dec 2021

Red Rocket could have soared in a traditional Hollywood feel-good way but instead stays small and down to the ground, sticking with you…

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Review of Benedetta (2021)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 01 Dec 2021

There is perhaps an intriguing movie here somewhere — “Who decides what is God’s will…

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Review of Encanto (2021)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 22 Nov 2021

It’s only appropriate that Encanto — fueled by eight original songs by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda — turns into that most…

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Review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 17 Nov 2021

It is more like half a movie, standing in the shadow of its parent. It is a film made to sell us more lunchboxes…

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Review of Eternals (2021)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 04 Nov 2021

Zhao, whose film Nomadland was everything this is not — spare, naturalistic, moody — struggles with so much going on…

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Review of Army of Thieves (2021)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 26 Oct 2021

It’s a film no one really demanded and yet is loads of fun…

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