Movie Reviews

"Where's My Roy Cohn' looks at master political puppeteer

“Get Me Roger Stone,” the 2017 Netflix documentary, was a piquant portrait of a pivotal political pal of Donald Trump. Now comes its unofficial prequel  — or companion piece — called “Where’s My Roy Cohn?”

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"The Lighthouse" is an ascent into madness

Madness, like misery, loves company.

Or, in the words of writer-director Robert Eggers: "Nothing good can happen when two men are trapped alone in a giant phallus."

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Intelligent "Mr. Klein" showing at Regent Square Theater

Dark forces shaped the life and brilliant career of director Joseph Losey. Even darker forces shape the life of Mr. Klein, the title character of his last great film.

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"The Addams Family" still creepy, kooky and all together ooky

The mildly macabre “Addams Family” has been entertaining people on TV and movie screens for half a century, or much longer if you go back to its edgier 1937 roots in the New Yorker: Creator Charles Addams (who married his third wife in a pet cemetery) drew 1,300 cartoons for the magazine up to his death in 1988, by which time he was internationally revered as “the Grandaddy of Goth.”

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'Downton Abbey' gracefully moves from TV to big screen

The excitement is equally enormous, upstairs and down, among the aristocrats and servants alike — some of them shedding tears of joy at the news — King George V and Queen Mary themselves will be visiting “Downton Abbey.”

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Women in business: Exploited strippers turn the tables on their bosses in Hustlers

“Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing — and vice versa,” a great sage in New Mexico once told me. More on that later.

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"The Nightingale" is a brutal, hard to watch tale of revenge in the outback

The convict-colonization of Australia was in full swing by 1825, when we find Clare (Aisling Franciosi) singing a beautifully bittersweet song in a rowdy Tasmanian tavern.

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'Peanut Butter Falcon' is a tasty, slightly predictable treat

Twenty-something Zak has Down syndrome. He spends his identical days in a backwater North Carolina nursing home, watching the same videotape — over and over — of his professional wrestling idol, the Salt Water Redneck, in dynamic action. That ancient tape includes a recruitment ad for The Redneck’s famed wrestling school nearby.

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'The Kitchen' — a female-focused mob drama likely to offend everybody

A woman’s place is in “The Kitchen” — Hell’s Kitchen, to be exact — where she must cook up a survival plan during her husband’s lengthy absence.

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'The Farewell' proves a moving, cross-cultural experience

The tagline says it all: “Based on an actual lie.” That’s the truth (and the basis) of a delightful multigenerational family reunion, “The Farewell.”

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