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Review: Family Feuds and Plenty of Punchlines in ‘Conversations with Mother’

Review: Family Feuds and Plenty of Punchlines in ‘Conversations with Mother’

An endearing but inconsistent exploration of love, loss and motherly meddling.

25.02.2025 20

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Rex Reed

If ‘Presence’ Proves Anything, It’s That Not Every Film Needs to Exist

The acting is so bad that it’s a favor to the cast not to mention any names.

11.02.2025 5

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‘Wolf Man’ Is a Howling Disaster That Mauls the Classic Horror Legacy

Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man manages to strip the genre of its last shreds of dignity, replacing suspense with an onslaught of gore and nonsense.

27.01.2025 5

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‘Liza’ Shows More Than Anything You’ll Ever See Anywhere Else

At its heart, the documentary is a celebration of resilience, reinvention and the kind of unfiltered honesty that only Liza herself can deliver.

25.01.2025 40

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Pamela Anderson Stuns in ‘The Last Showgirl’, but Jamie Lee Curtis Steals the Spotlight

In ‘The Last Showgirl’, Pamela Anderson trades in beach bounces for Vegas blues, playing Shelly—a washed-up showgirl who discovers that sequins...

23.12.2024 3

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I Was There: Rex Reed on ‘September 5’ and the Munich Olympics Tragedy

Peter Sarsgaard as Roone Arledge in September 5, a film that unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to...

13.12.2024 7

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‘Maria’ Review: Angelina Jolie Shines in a Visually Stunning but Lifeless Biopic

Angelina Jolie’s committed performance as Maria Callas glimmers amid a lackluster script that reduces the operatic legend’s life to a drawn-out...

12.12.2024 9

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‘The Order’ Review: Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult Deliver Gripping, Timely Thrills

Jude Law in The Order. Courtesy of Vertical With a strong cast, tight script, and exemplary direction, The Order is first-rate filmmaking above and...

09.12.2024 7

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Surviving ‘Swept Away’: A Maritime Disaster in More Ways Than One

Fool that I am, I was excited to hear of a new Broadway play called Swept Away, figuring it would be a sexy adaptation of the great 1974 Italian...

23.11.2024 5

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‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Is The Most Original, Most Beautiful Musical In Eons

A new Broadway musical about people in love? OK. A new Broadway musical about people in love who are robots? I don’t think so. That’s what I feared...

13.11.2024 4

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Hugh Grant Goes Full Villain in ‘Heretic’—But Who’s Really Terrified?

So much junk has already been written about the risky change of pace Hugh Grant exhibits in an overrated, undercooked fright flick called Heretic...

12.11.2024 9

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‘Here’ Goes Nowhere: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and the AI Gimmick that Fell Flat

If you think Tom Hanks cannot make a bad movie, you haven’t seen Here. This phony, gimmicky and tedious waste of time might not be the first film...

08.11.2024 1

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‘Juror #2’ Proves Clint Eastwood Is Still a Master of Suspense—and Hollywood

Politically, we might be on different planets, but my admiration and respect for director Clint Eastwood is boundless when it comes to movies. Now...

04.11.2024 1

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‘Left On Tenth’ Is Funny, Touching, Intelligently Written And Beautifully Acted

If you’re a veteran theatergoer lamenting the absence of good, old-fashioned love stories on Broadway, hope has arrived. Left on Tenth— the new...

24.10.2024 4

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Michael Keaton Shines in ‘Goodrich’—A Heartfelt Comeback for Real Men on Screen

One of the things I like best about watching Michael Keaton on the screen in movies, good or bad (and especially in human and often hilarious...

21.10.2024 2

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Michael Keaton Shines in ‘Goodrich’—A Heartfelt Comeback for Real Men on Screen

One of the things I like best about watching Michael Keaton on the screen in movies, good or bad (and especially in human and often hilarious...

21.10.2024 1

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Kate Winslet’s Transfixing Performance Makes ‘Lee’ Vivid and Unforgettable

Great biopics about great people demand great writing and great centerpiece performances. The splendid film Lee, a riveting, honorable and...

30.09.2024 2

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Who Can Blame an Apathetic Halle Berry? ‘Never Let Go’ Is Relentlessly Obtuse.

A state of desperate deprivation that signifies the lack of imagination that plagues most movies today and deprives decent performers from doing...

30.09.2024 2

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Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone Are a Perfect Pair in ‘The Roommate’

Mia Farrow has not been on a Broadway stage for so long that we forgot how much we missed her. Now she’s back in a new play called The Roommate,...

13.09.2024 2

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Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone Are a Perfect Pair in ‘The Roommate’

Mia Farrow has not been on a Broadway stage for so long that we forgot how much we missed her. Now she’s back in a new play called The Roommate,...

13.09.2024 3

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‘Speak No Evil’ Collapses in Carnage

Remakes are odious, but Speak No Evil, while thoroughly unneeded and unasked for, is an Americanized remake of a 2022 thriller from Denmark that...

13.09.2024 3

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‘The Thicket’ Review: Blood, Violence and Little Else in This Bleak Western

The search never ends for ways to make old genres like cowboy movies look fresh and different.  To this purpose, there is a shoot-em-up called The...

07.09.2024 20

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Hemingway’s Worst Novel Gets Worse: ‘Across the River’ Is a Dull, Pointless Misfire

Does anyone know how to make a movie these days that makes sense, with enough plot, narrative coherence and character development to keep a viewer...

03.09.2024 3

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‘The Union’ Doesn’t Make a Lick of Sense, Which Makes Sense

I’m no stranger to lament when it comes to the disintegration of quality in what passes for movies today, but then along comes a bucket of swill...

17.08.2024 4

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‘Close to You’ Review: Elliot Page’s Brave, Bold, Confusing Performance

After a triumphant splash in Juno, lovely, appealing Elliot Page got Oscar nominated, was on his way to a promising career as an important film...

13.08.2024 2

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‘The Fabulous Four’ Is the Latest Humiliation of Seniors Seeking Employment

At a time when mature women are making giant strides toward honor, respect and dignity in every walk of life, progress to gain equal footing is...

29.07.2024 2

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Drop-Dead Glamour-Puss Glen Powell Is a Reason to See ‘Twisters’

Before tornado movies threaten to become a cottage industry, just remember that in spite of both the bad ones and the forthcoming plans for more...

23.07.2024 2

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