Dann Gire
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Heart of Stone: Courageous Emma rocks trippy, surrealistic coming-of-age feminist fantasyDec 12, 2023 4:11 pm - “Poor Things” -- 4 stars I have not witnessed a motion picture this robustly imaginative, this ferociously sexual, this optically explosive and this politically inc...
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Do not 'Wish' upon this star-crossed Disney animated musicalNov 20, 2023 10:00 pm - “Wish” — ★ ★ “Wish” may be Walt Disney's newest addition to its family of animated features, but not its freshest. This mercifully short musical fantasy feels as if...
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Spectacular battle scenes quash epic love story in lengthy historical drama 'Napoleon'Nov 19, 2023 10:00 pm - “Napoleon” — ★ ★ ½ I'm almost embarrassed to admit that while watching Ridley Scott's ambitious movie about an ambitious French soldier who would be emperor, I kept...
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Timely doc 'Common Ground' gives us the dirt on ineffective, deadly farming practicesNov 09, 2023 5:00 am - “Common Ground” — ★ ★ ★ ½ An open letter to filmmaker Adam “The Big Short” McKay: Dear Mr. McKay, I have a perfect idea for your next movie — a dramatic version of ...
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Can't help falling in love with 'Priscilla' and its ideal cast, subtle direction, eye-popping production designsOct 31, 2023 11:00 am - “Priscilla” — ★ ★ ★ ★ Few Hollywood biographical dramas pack the risky level of exploitative and sensationalistic naughtiness nimbly negotiated in “Priscilla.” For ...
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'Five Nights'' intriguing premise undermined by simply terrible storytellingOct 26, 2023 3:00 pm - “Five Nights at Freddy's” — ★ Just in time to ruin Halloween weekend for true horror film afficionados, Emma Tammi's “Five Nights at Freddy's” gives us one of the s...
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Scorsese kills it with daring, unsparing historical drama 'Killers of the Flower Moon'Oct 18, 2023 9:00 am - “Killers of the Flower Moon” — ★ ★ ★ ★ “You've got a better chance of convicting a guy for kicking a dog than killing an Indian.” That single shocking sentence succ...
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The pandemic put movie theaters in peril. Here's how some survived - and thrivedOct 01, 2023 6:00 am - You can't make this stuff up. Had Paramount Pictures released "Top Gun: Maverick" in 2019 as originally planned, the military action sequel would have done predictably ...
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'Fair Play' a smart, twisty mix of romance and corporate politicsSep 28, 2023 6:00 am - “Fair Play” — ★ ★ ★ ★ It takes a while for Chloe Domont's smart and twisty first feature “Fair Play” to segue from a high-finance romance to an alarming domestic h...
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Spectacular visuals not enough to lift suspenseless sci-fi tale 'The Creator'Sep 26, 2023 12:00 pm - “The Creator” — ★ ★ With nary a whit of wit, fun, awe, wonder or suspense, Gareth Edwards' generic sci-fi action tale “The Creator” plods through 133 minutes of ret...