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Casablanca

Blackbird movie review: Michael “Riverdance” Flatley flatfoots his way into filmmaking

Wed, Sep 07, 2022
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Long rumored — long threatened? — writer-director-producer-star Flatley’s self-financed pabulum opus is baffling and hilariously awful. It exists only because an incredibly rich man has money to burn.

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question of the weekend: what place that exists only in a movie would you like to visit?

Sun, Aug 01, 2021
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Movies are fantasy factories, creating places that do not exist in the real world: settings so hugely imaginative that they could not possibly exist, and settings that could conceivable exist, yet don’t.

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker movie review: the galaxy isn’t far far away, it’s just very small

Thu, Jan 09, 2020
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Kudos to J.J. Abrams for doing something extraordinary: he has made me not care about Star Wars for the first time ever. I’m kind of relieved that it’s over, because it has stopped being fun.

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Allied movie review: movie spies with delicious old-fashioned mystique

Mon, Nov 21, 2016
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An elegant potboiler that judiciously balances psychological and physical suspense, one that feels like a romantic drama from WWII only recently rediscovered.

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Suite Française movie review: enemy mine to love

Fri, Mar 13, 2015
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An immediate and intimate tale of forbidden romance and other complex emotions and contradictory obligations. This ain’t history but a very human now.

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OFCS names The Godfather the best Oscar Best Picture ever

Fri, Mar 07, 2014
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The members of the Online Film Critics Society — of which I am one — have jointly ranked the 86 movies that have won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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question of the day: What movie would you inject into your bloodstream?

Fri, Jan 25, 2013
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(Because science can now encode a movie into DNA.) Just to be ironic, I would have to inject Fantastic Voyage.

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Inigo Montoya upsets air travelers (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Jan 25, 2013
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Casablanca sequel? it’s a thing… (and other adventures in social networking)

Tue, Nov 06, 2012
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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question of the day: Of all the films you’ve ever seen, which one would you consider the greatest?

Thu, Aug 02, 2012
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I want to know what you think makes a movie great, and how your personal greatest film impacted your determination of what makes for great cinema in general.

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