Dann Gire
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Light laughs, dark drama don't mix well in awkward 'Moving On'Mar 16, 2023 6:00 am - “Moving On” - ★ ★ This slightly cringey, comically tone-deaf movie doesn't quite qualify as a black comedy. More like a gray-beigey one that falls far short of its inte...
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Who will win? Film critic Dann Gire makes his Oscars picks, from sure bets to up-for-grabsMar 08, 2023 2:00 pm - Predicting this year's Academy Awards winners might appear to be as easy as blasting womp rats on Tatooine with a T-16 Skyhopper. So who will win big on Sunday night? I ...
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Star Michael B. Jordan directs his first film, the feisty but flawed 'Creed III'Mar 02, 2023 4:45 am - “Creed III” - ★ ★ ½ Already a champion movie star and A-list actor, Michael B. Jordan demonstrates great promise as a director with “Creed III,” his feisty but flawed fr...
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Clever, engaging documentary a cinematic Bond marketFeb 16, 2023 5:00 am - “The Other Fellow” - ★ ★ ★ This title, as most ardent James Bond fans know, comes from a historical moment in 1969's “On Her Majesty's Secret Service” when one-time 007...
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'Somebody' a dramatically flat story of rejected romance remorseFeb 09, 2023 5:00 am - “Somebody I Used to Know” - ★ ★ I really wanted to like the indie rom-com “Somebody I Used to Know,” but the longer its freight train of dramatically flat, passionless,...
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Oldie but goody cast scores extra points in fun, but fumbled gridiron fantasy '80 for Brady'Feb 02, 2023 5:00 am - “80 for Brady” - ★ ★ ½ The screenplay's lame, but the dames are game all the same. Lily Tomlin is 83. Jane Fonda is 85. Rita Moreno is 91. Sally Field clocks in at a yo...
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Don't knock this 'Cabin': M. Night Shyamalan returns in apocalyptic formFeb 02, 2023 5:00 am - “Knock at the Cabin” - ★ ★ ★ Leave it to M. Night Shyamalan to turn a simple, creepy home invasion thriller into an apocalyptic tale steeped in the biblical Book of Rev...
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'Missing' an energized, timely, tech-savvy thriller set in a scary surveillance stateJan 19, 2023 5:00 am - “Missing” - ★ ★ ★ In “Missing,” we have what might have been the most innovative, energized and timely thriller of 2023, a flash-edited testimonial to tech-savvy Zoomer...
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Film Critic Dann Gire picks his 10 movies of the yearDec 29, 2022 5:00 am - As 2022 bites the chronological dust, it's time to take a look at the movies of the past 12 months and determine the most memorable ones. Here are mine. 1. 'The Banshees...
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Damien Chazelle directs a frustrating, glorious, messy epic in 'Babylon'Dec 22, 2022 5:00 am - "Babylon" - ½ Early in the exhaustingly ambitious epic "Babylon" - Damien Chazelle's furious, curious satirical assault/love letter combo to Hollywood - an elephan...