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1/4
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Space Cadet
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Roberts and Union pull out the stops trying to find laughs in this script, mostly failing. Scene after unoriginal scene drags on the picture...sucking it right out of orbit.
Posted Jul 22, 2024
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2/4
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The Beautiful Summer
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Luchetti makes her beautiful looking film about this budding summer romance, but never quite convinces us of her passionate interest in it, or in much else that was going on in Italy in 1938.
Posted Jul 22, 2024
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4/4
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My Man Godfrey
(1936)
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Roger Moore
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Few comedies of this or any other era are performed with the panache of this one, with the players making scores upon scores of one-liners, insults and casual remarks worth a chuckle.
Posted Jul 22, 2024
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1.5/4
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Goyo
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Veers from cloying and coarse to sensitive and brittle...cluttered...melodramatic
Posted Jul 21, 2024
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1/4
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My Spy the Eternal City
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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At least the sequel isn’t as violent as “My Spy” — if you ignore all the knife-throwing.
Posted Jul 21, 2024
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3/4
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A Night at the Opera
(1935)
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Roger Moore
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One can feel the “madcap” slipping away as the banter slows and structure and sticking-to-the-script/watch-the-clock MGM “efficiency” weigh on the Marx Brothers from the start.
Posted Jul 20, 2024
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2/4
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Find Me Falling
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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The best Hallmark movie in years was snatched up by Netflix...Of course it’s all as cloying and cute as it is predictable. But Connick plays this rock-fish-out-of-water perfectly, giving most every scene a light air of perplexity and embarassment.
Posted Jul 19, 2024
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2/4
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Twisters
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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As summer popcorn movies go, this one has a hard time finding its heart.
Posted Jul 18, 2024
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1.5/4
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The Infallibles
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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By the sputtering slam-bang finale, even the most devoted buddy cop picture fan will have reached the “That makes no sense” level of dismay.
Posted Jul 18, 2024
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1/4
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Blame the Game
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Pacing counts for everything in a farce, and while this one has a promising bit, here and there, it’s something of a stiff. It never gets on its feet and sprints.
Posted Jul 17, 2024
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2.5/4
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Young Woman and the Sea
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Plucky...a mostly-European cast tell this All American story in that plucky, old fashioned Disney style — with great obstacles, sketchy, archetypal villains and all of America watching, or listening on the radio as our heroine makes her attempt.
Posted Jul 17, 2024
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1/4
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Mother of All Shows
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Every scene drifts on past its payoff....There’s nothing musical here anybody would hum leaving the theater. The singing is adequate, but no more, the dance undemanding.
Posted Jul 16, 2024
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2/4
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Lord Jim
(1965)
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Roger Moore
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One suspects that this story’s racial attitudes, taken from Conrad and absorbed from Kipling, were never ever going to age well, no matter how pretty the images, how exciting the action and how perfectly-cast its “white savior” might have been.
Posted Jul 15, 2024
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1.5/4
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Longlegs
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Love Cage, Monroe has impressed in the past...But I’m not buying the Quantum Leap in Oz Perkins’ filmmaking some are calling this. In the case of “Longlegs,” the hype is the picture.
Posted Jul 14, 2024
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3/4
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The Convert
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Tamahori is a filmmaker in both his elements here, a Maori who never allows this Maori story to turn patronizing, an action auteur...who knows how to make violence visceral, and in combat scenes, an epic experience.
Posted Jul 14, 2024
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3/4
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
(1944)
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Roger Moore
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A bit stiff and entirely too gee-whiz-you-guys cheerful... But this is a smart, sometimes tense and bluntly accurate — if myopic — recreation of a pivotal moment in the Pacific war,
Posted Jul 13, 2024
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1.5/4
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The Champion
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Formulaic sports melodrama...it's not subtle...but it has a moment, here and there.
Posted Jul 13, 2024
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2.5/4
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The Passionate Friends
(1949)
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Roger Moore
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Lesser Lean...but Lean completists will take pleasure in the connective tissue that binds (this) with his other films, and get a sense of his first serious dalliance into an epic setting.
Posted Jul 13, 2024
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1.5/4
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MaXXXine
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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The pastiche of ’70s cinema styles comes off as Ti West imitating Tarantino imitating the real thing.
Posted Jul 12, 2024
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2.5/4
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Touch
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Emotional shortcomings aside, “Touch” still pulls you in, an immersive story of alien worlds — the 1960s, Iceland and Japan — sympathetically and patiently told, a lovely two hour break from the world
Posted Jul 12, 2024
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1/4
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Fly Me to the Moon
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Not a romance, kind of comic and too stupid to be satire, it wastes leads Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum on a screenplay by Rose Gilroy
Posted Jul 12, 2024
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2/4
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A Man of Reason
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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The action beats are superb, the supporting cast properly colorful and mostly hateful. It’s the story and the drab archetypal lead character which let it down.
Posted Jul 11, 2024
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2/4
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A Part of You
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Meant to be a movie you feel more than you follow, anxiously awaiting the next twist. And one does feel something, here and there and in the finale. If you’re young enough, that will suffice.
Posted Jul 11, 2024
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2/4
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Descendants: The Rise of Red
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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It’s on a par with the earlier films — in other words, pretty forgettable for adults if not for the tweens who eat this cotton candy up.
Posted Jul 10, 2024
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2.5/4
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A Town Like Alice
(1956)
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Roger Moore
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A gripping and sometimes touching film placed in the hands of a very sympathetic Virginia McKenna, paired with Peter Finch at his most charming.
Posted Jul 08, 2024
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1/4
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Project Silence
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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As silly as one character and a couple of seriuously excessive moments struggle to be, "Project Silence" never quite finds a tone and rhythm that works.
Posted Jul 08, 2024
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1/4
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The Secret Art of Human Flight
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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A floundering blend of somber and silly that doesn’t work at either level.
Posted Jul 08, 2024
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0/4
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Continental Split
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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"Continental Split" begins with a sinkhole -- somewhere in the vicinity of New Madrid MADrid -- and never for a second crawls out of it.
Posted Jul 07, 2024
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1/4
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Despicable Me 4
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Are ticket-buying parents satisfied by any of this? This film barely rises to the level of “harmless. slaptsick distraction.”
Posted Jul 06, 2024
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2/4
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Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Often drifts between the pointed, emotional, spirit-moved sermons, without any pace or much of a sense of forward motion.
Posted Jul 05, 2024
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1.5/4
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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A laugh-starved script full of fan service nostalgia, recycled-to-death plot points and limp versions of all the banter and one-liners Murphy & Co. used to tickle us with.
Posted Jul 05, 2024
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2.5/4
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Escape
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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A straight-up defector genre thriller complete with sadistic cat-and-mouse games, games given added edge thanks to the strong homoerotic overtones between our cat and mouse and others.
Posted Jul 04, 2024
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1/4
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Kinds of Kindness
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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DO NOT WANT
Posted Jul 04, 2024
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1.5/4
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A Family Affair
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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The strain to find laughs shows...That’s deadly in a rom-com.
Posted Jul 02, 2024
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2.5/4
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Pot o' Gold
(1941)
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Roger Moore
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As movie musical ditties go, this one plants an earworm or two and lets Stewart, Goddard & Co. crack wise, break into song or break out the old mouth harp in ways that must have tickled audiences then and still packs a few delights
Posted Jul 01, 2024
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2/4
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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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A “How the West was Won” for the streaming era, a choppy, ponderous and episodic horse opera
Posted Jun 28, 2024
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2.5/4
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Mother, Couch
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Niclas Larsson bit off more than he can chew for his feature directing debut...
Still, for anybody who relishes performance over “the puzzle,” who gets a charge out of seeing screen legends make Ewan McGregor sweat, it's worth getting off the sofa for.
Posted Jun 27, 2024
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3/4
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Cora Bora
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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You might not want to swipe right on Cora, probably wouldn’t stay for a second drink at any cafe or bar where she’s playing, and might not get past her overbearing bravado on first meeting. But Stalter...makes her an unpleasantly emphathetic figure.
Posted Jun 26, 2024
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2.5/4
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Daddio
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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A chatty, drawn-out cinematic seminar in the value of movie stars.
Posted Jun 26, 2024
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2/4
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Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Lightweight, vague and a tad obscure, never quite delivering the parable it promises
Posted Jun 25, 2024
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1/4
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Rally Caps
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Even graded on the kid-movie-curve, "Rally Caps" comes up short.
Posted Jun 24, 2024
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1/4
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Trigger Warning
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Alba’s been around long enough to know good scripts from crappy ones. And she’s rich enough to be choosier — getting better writers, seeking out the best fight choreographers, insisting on bigger name co-stars.
Posted Jun 24, 2024
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1.5/4
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Young Winston
(1972)
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Roger Moore
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A stiff, a movie too stately, choppy and staid in its first half (pre “intermission”), a picture that picks up with more action in its later acts only to peter out by the finale.
Posted Jun 23, 2024
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1/4
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The Price of Nonna's Inheritance
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Barely a grin in it, much less an actual laugh.
Posted Jun 22, 2024
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2.5/4
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Fancy Dance
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Melodramatic...but a solid star vehicle for Lily Gladstone.
Posted Jun 21, 2024
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1/4
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The Bikeriders
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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A two hour waste of a lot of fine vintage motorcycles.
Posted Jun 20, 2024
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3/4
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Ghostlight
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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So much of this is “on the nose” and predictably-sweet that it flirts with becoming maudlin...But the players make the sale, and make this picture sing.
Posted Jun 20, 2024
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3/4
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The Devil's Bath
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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A patient, pitiless descent into madness
Posted Jun 20, 2024
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3/4
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Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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One of the most informative and certainly the most entertaining historical documentaries about LGBTQ history on offer this Pride Month.
Posted Jun 19, 2024
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0/4
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It's Not Over
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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The worst movie ever filmed in Scotland.
Posted Jun 19, 2024
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