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| COMING 2 AMERICA |
"Zamunda Deserves Better"
Peter Sobczynski says... "In the wake of the enormous amount of critical acclaim and audience goodwill generated by his brilliant performance as Rudy Ray Moore in “Dolemite is My Name” and his Emmy-winning stint hosting “Saturday Night Live,” one might have hoped that Eddie Murphy would have used the resurgent interest in his career to do more original and challenging projects—at least more ore original and challenging than the array of unnecessary sequels/remakes, puerile family films and assorted instantly forgettable comedies that inexplicably made up the majority of his filmography. Alas, if “Coming 2 America,” the long-awaited sequel to his 1988 favorite and his first post-“Dolemite” film, is any indication, it appears that those hopes have already been somewhat dashed upon the rocks of mild laziness and empty nostalgia." (more)
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| RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON |
"Sho'Nuff"
Peter Sobczynski says... "The surprisingly strong opening weekend box-office for the “Tom and Jerry” boondoggle served as a clear indicator that there was such a pent-up demand for big-screen family entertainment that people were even willing to undergo all the risks out there for something as crummy as that. Now I am not saying that I quite recommend returning to the multiplex experience quite yet but for those are comfortable to making such an excursion with their families, it is a good thing that there is a film out there far more deserving of such efforts in the form of the new Disney production “Raya and the Last Dragon.” While such recent efforts from the studio such as “Onward” and “Soul” have attempted to break free of the usual formulas with middling-at-best results, this one effortlessly subverts most expectations of what one might find in such film—no songs, no romantic byplay (however chaste), not even a true villain, so to speak—and then supplies enough wit, style, energy and emotion so that you won’t even miss those familiar elements." (more)
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| JUMBO |
"Worth however many tickets the park charges."
Jay Seaver says... "It's tempting to search the internet to see if the romance (of sorts) in "Jumbo" is a thing common enough to have a name, especially since it has one of those "based on a true story" credits that one naturally half-suspects to be trolling. It's probably not a good idea, though, because once one does that, it's not much of a leap to what a person should do if someone in their life falls in love with a machine, and this is a movie about not knowing the answer." (more)
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| BLITHE SPIRIT (2021) |
"It's a good thing one doesn't really care about this sort of movie's story."
Jay Seaver says... "You probably don't get more than a minute or two into "Blithe Spirit" before the flashy colors, imminent broad slapstick, and maybe slightly exaggerated sound effects tell you that this movie is going to work hard to make you laugh. That is no bad thing - it beats the cases when filmmakers seem determined that any comedy that occurs should seem unintentional - but something like this could occasionally do with being sly as well. All that obvious effort means that even randomness has a hard time catching one by surprise." (more)
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| MY ZOE |
"Not what it should be and all the better for it."
Jay Seaver says... "Come for the science fictional premise, stay for the brutal means by which Julie Delpy gets you there, although I'm not exactly complaining about that. Movies like "My Zoe" are so often focused on the ethics of an innovation as to make the science separate from the everyday life that it will eventually impact. Instead, the ugly divorce and lingering torture that follow are precisely articulated enough that one may forget the two recognizable names in the opening credits who will play a big part in the film's back half." (more)
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| NOMADLAND |
"Nowhere woman."
Rob Gonsalves says... "There’s a Facebook group called “Capitalist Dystopia Stories Rebranded as Heartwarming Bullshit.” It provides links to news bits like the recent one in which a seven-year-old girl is selling lemonade to help pay for her brain surgery. I don’t know how we got to be a society that isn’t horrified by this." (more)
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| STYLIST, THE |
"The First Cut Is The Deepest."
Peter Sobczynski says... "“The Stylist” is a horror movie, make no mistake about it, but it is not quite the Grand Guignol-style grossest that one might assume it to be after hiring its premise. Instead, it is a more ambitious dive into the mind of a character who has clearly undergone so much psychological damage throughout her life that most viewers will find their hearts constantly breaking for her, even during the times when she is driven to unspeakably brutal acts." (more)
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| HIDDEN MAN |
"Frantic but fun."
Jay Seaver says... ""Hidden Man" is the third of writer/director/co-star Jiang Wen "bullets" trilogy, with a detour to Hollywood to be part of "Rogue One" in between, and it's got to be sort of an odd sensation, doing this sort of sprawling epic in the shadow of the sheer amount of resources Disney was throwing at "Star Wars". It almost seems to have Jiang trying to do too much even without making more than the usual effort to include a Western audience, making for a packed, frantic, but often pretty enjoyable bit of period action." (more)
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'I DONT THINK IT'S NICE YOU LAUGHING. YOU SEE MY MULE DONT LIKE PEOPLE LAUGHING. GETS THE CRAZY IDEA YOU'RE LAUGHING AT HIM. IF YOU APOLOGIZE, LIKE I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO, I MIGHT CONVINCE HIM YOU REALLY DIDNT MEAN IT.'
- Joe, A Fistful Of Dollars
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