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Review of The Wife (2018)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 28 Aug 2018

What makes The Wife insufferable soap is the masochistic insistence that the men are all crushers, and that that's all that's possible for them to do…

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Review of Searching (2018)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 28 Aug 2018

It's neither the first nor the best movie about living (and dying) online, but San Jose-raised filmmaker Aneesh Chaganty's thriller…

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Review of The Meg (2018)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 12 Aug 2018

The Meg's target audience, the bloody-minded kid who wishes shark week was every week, isn't over served with guts and chum…

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Review of Rock Rubber 45s (2018)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 07 Aug 2018

Garcia's autobiographical documentary Rock Rubber 45s is a delight - this 50-something man of many talents is a born ambassador…

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Review of BlacKkKlansman (2018)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 07 Aug 2018

This is a big movie from Lee, warm and smart. It's not essentially radical, unless the subject of self-defense is radical…

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Review of The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 01 Aug 2018

McKinnon brings in the franticness, but it's not the same thing as chemistry…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 25 Jul 2018

Mission: Impossible - Fallout gives one nothing to suffer over except for the winching of nerves during one of its expert fight sequences,…

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Review of Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 25 Jul 2018

A story of recovery such as this usually isn't as balanced between the scary fun of carousing and the time spent in contemplation and…

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Review of Eighth Grade (2018)

By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for MetroActive (325) on 18 Jul 2018

Burnham has constructed a remarkably thoughtful first feature film…

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Review of Blindspotting (2018)

By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for MetroActive (325) on 18 Jul 2018

The film's break-out performance belongs to Cascal…

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Review of The King (2021)

By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for MetroActive (325) on 11 Jul 2018

Jarecki acknowledges the limits of comparing Elvis' decline with that of America's... but he does get a lot of mileage from testing the idea…

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Review of Damsel (2018)

By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for MetroActive (325) on 11 Jul 2018

With Wasikowska behind the trigger, Damsel points a rifle directly at male vanity and shoots a hole right through the target's heart…

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Review of Sorry to Bother You (2018)

By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for MetroActive (325) on 04 Jul 2018

Each shift in tone is Riley's way of both heightening reality... and commenting on an economic hierarchy that disadvantages people of color…

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Review of Leave No Trace (2018)

By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for MetroActive (325) on 04 Jul 2018

Ben Foster is making a career out of playing men who either can't or won't adhere to society's rules…

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Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 27 Jun 2018

This is a wonderful toy that one imagines young girls in particular would like - and it's hard to believe that there will be anything…

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Review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 27 Jun 2018

There is a surfeit of running and screaming…

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Review of A Kid Like Jake (2018)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 19 Jun 2018

An issue film that doesn't completely come to life…

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Review of Incredibles 2 (2018)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 13 Jun 2018

For all the nostalgia, this doesn't seem like a replay or a retread…

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Review of Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 06 Jun 2018

An inspiring study of the friend of millions of children, perhaps insufficiently appreciated in his time but respected in ours…

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Review of The Valley (2018)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 06 Jun 2018

The Valley gets at the angst of high tech with an almost burning acuteness, with the constant work and the price of it as alienation at home…

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