Dann Gire
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Susan Sarandon radiant as she faces death head-on in family drama 'Blackbird'Sep 18, 2020 6:00 am - “Blackbird” — ★ ★ ★ Lily the matriarch sure knows how to wake her family and get them moving in the morning. “You up yet?” she shouts upstairs. “I'm dead soon! You...
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'The Way I See It' captures all the subleties of Pete Souza's job as the former official White House photographerSep 17, 2020 6:00 am - “The Way I See It” — ★ ★ ★ ½ Dawn Porter's subversively Gandhi-esque “The Way I See It” doesn't look like a political hit job on President Donald Trump. It appears...
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Does Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' live up to the hype?Sep 02, 2020 2:00 pm - “Tenet” - ★ ★ ★ Unlike time travel, time inversion merely rolls back the chronological order of things, something like an “instant playback in reverse” created by a piec...
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'Get Duked!' on Amazon Prime a rogue, brogue Scottish satire on class warfareAug 27, 2020 6:00 am - “Get Duked!” - ★ ★ ½ Back in the day, a blackly comical absurdist horror tale like “Get Duked!” would have been easily elected to serve a term or two on the midnig...
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Zombie-riddled 'Peninsula' derails in South Korean 'Train' sequelAug 21, 2020 6:00 am - “Train to Busan: Peninsula” - ★ ★ ½ The title “Train to Busan: Peninsula” doesn't pack much relevance here. Nobody takes a train to anywhere in this frantically und...
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Russell Crowe snaps, crackles and pops as road-raging killer in 'Unhinged'Aug 20, 2020 6:00 am - “Unhinged” — ★ ★ How can a movie this stupid be so diabolically irresistible? More to the point: How can a movie this stupid — and assumes viewers are even stupide...
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'Sputnik' steers Russian sci-fi tale into impressive territoryAug 13, 2020 6:00 am - “Sputnik” - ★ ★ ★ In the years B.C. (Before Coronavirus), August became known as “the dog days of summer,” a time when local theaters would offer a mix of B-pictur...
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'The Fight' salutes ACLU attorneys in sincere but slow documentaryJul 30, 2020 12:30 pm - “The Fight” - ★ ★ ½ The ACLU marks its 100th birthday this year. To celebrate the momentous occasion, documentary directors Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman and Eli...
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'Radioactive' radiates cliches in trite, disappointing Marie Curie biopicJul 22, 2020 11:00 pm - "Radioactive" -- ★ ★ In Marjane Satrapi's bland and befuddling biopic “Radioactive,” brilliant scientist Marie Curie and her brilliant scientist husband Pierre Cur...
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Suspense film 'The Room' offers view of horrific fantasyJul 21, 2020 6:00 am - "The Room" - ★ ★ ★ Starring: Olga Christian Volckman's "The Room" sucks us into a vortex of unpredictable, imaginative fantasy as it explores what happens to a happily m...