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Review of The Painter and the Thief (2020)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 25 Jan 2020

The film’s sustained intimacy speaks highly of the trust the subjects came to feel for the filmmaker, who is able to cut to the quick as…

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Review of The Dissident (2020)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 25 Jan 2020

This is a documentary both tragic and poignant, not to mention maddening in that only a few underlings, and not the perpetrators, will pay…

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Review of The Last Full Measure (2020)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 22 Jan 2020

This Vietnam War-themed drama is one of the dullest films made about that oft-dramatized conflict…

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Review of Bad Boys for Life (2020)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Jan 2020

It’s impressive and enjoyable to behold how easily Smith and Lawrence slide back into these characters and actually make them more…

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Review of Dolittle (2020)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Jan 2020

This is a film that just very expensively sits there onscreen with nothing ever seeming even remotely at stake…

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Review of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 18 Dec 2019

The massive jumble of standoffs, near-misses, tense confrontations, narrow escapes and slick victories, while momentarily exciting, can…

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Review of Spies in Disguise (2019)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 Dec 2019

Antic and frantic, Spies is very much a one-joke affair, which is fine for a short but woefully insufficient for a 101-minute feature…

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Review of Bombshell (2019)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 09 Dec 2019

The actors throw themselves into their roles with terrific zeal, enlivened by the often blunt dialogue and the issues at stake…

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Review of What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Dec 2019

Befitting the subject's personality and entertainment predilections, What She Said is adamantly engaging, full of lively, appreciative…

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Review of 1917 (2019)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 25 Nov 2019

Even if the film is mostly hitting familiar notes in terms of story and theme, it expresses a concise, focused and expertly managed vision…

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Review of Richard Jewell (2019)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 21 Nov 2019

It’s Hauser who carries the film in a rare and unlikely role, that of a presumed loser in life (the man did die just a few years later,…

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Review of 21 Bridges (2019)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 18 Nov 2019

The ever-righteous profile maintained by Boseman’s detective gets to be a bit limiting after a while; if anything was going to have…

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Review of Frozen II (2019)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 Nov 2019

Frozen 2 has everything you would expect — catchy new songs, more time with easy-to-like characters, striking backdrops, cute little…

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Review of Dark Waters (2019)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Nov 2019

Successfully restraining himself throughout from getting fancy or experimental, Haynes has intently devoted himself to the story and his…

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Review of Queen of Hearts (2019)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 30 Oct 2019

The film maintains its edge because el-Toukhy serves up this unsavory dish cold, without any mollifying humanistic judgments or…

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Review of Queen of Hearts (2019)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 30 Oct 2019

The film maintains its edge because el-Toukhy serves up this unsavory dish cold, without any mollifying humanistic judgments or…

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Review of Doctor Sleep (2019)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 30 Oct 2019

It doesn’t have Jack Nicholson, Stanley Kubrick or even much of the Overlook Hotel, but Rebecca Ferguson and other good actors provide…

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Review of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Oct 2019

Every conceivable button is pushed to achieve rote satisfaction in young viewers, while any notion of creating tension and suspense is…

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Review of Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 03 Oct 2019

Saving some of the best for last, director Philippe makes outstanding use of footage of what in the trade is called the money shot, the…

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Review of The Kingmaker (2019)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 Sep 2019

An engaging, appalling but inevitably partial portrait of a woman who has navigated through countless political and personal squalls but…

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