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Review of Kodachrome (2017)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 Apr 2018

What are we to make of director Mark Raso's overtly sincere attempt to tell a tale we've seen a dozen times before? Are we to weep on cue…

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Review of Beirut (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 13 Apr 2018

In chipping the rust off a 27-year-old script and applying a fresh coat of 21st-century technology, director Brad Anderson unveils a twisty-turner…

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Review of Lean on Pete (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 13 Apr 2018

The points Haigh makes about the people left behind in our ever-changing economy have a resonance…

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Review of Borg vs McEnroe (2017)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 13 Apr 2018

He's no John McEnroe -- not in looks or stature…

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Review of Final Portrait (2017)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 07 Apr 2018

To say it unfolds at a leisurely pace would be a vast understatement…

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Review of Chappaquiddick (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 07 Apr 2018

What struck me most was how cleverly the movie skewers the devious way politicians think and behave, from the shaky relationship our representatives…

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Review of Isle of Dogs (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 30 Mar 2018

Visually, Anderson's second foray into stop-motion animation is a mind-blowing marvel of wondrous imagination and ingenuity…

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Review of The China Hustle (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 30 Mar 2018

This is one of those documentaries -- like Abacus and Enron -- that make you boiling mad at greedy bankers, ineffectual politicians and a financial…

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Review of Flower (2017)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 Mar 2018

Winkler turns credulity to the wind with a succession of increasingly ridiculous plot twists that can only occur in the mind of a lazy scriptwriter…

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Review of The Leisure Seeker (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 18 Mar 2018

Italian director Paolo Virzi has much to say about old age. But just what that message might be is more opaque than Grandma's support hose…

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Review of The Death of Stalin (2017)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 18 Mar 2018

This isn't just a picture about the state of the Soviet Union in March 1953; it's very much about today…

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Review of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 04 Mar 2018

It confirms her prowess as an inventor of much more than male fantasy…

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Review of Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 05 Feb 2018

Bening can elevate even the dullest flicks to a higher level…

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Review of Small Town Crime (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 24 Jan 2018

The one constant is Hawkes, who is so much fun you'd follow him anywhere, even through a flat-footed crime caper riddled with more clichés…

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Review of The Final Year (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 Jan 2018

The Final Year lacks the focus and urgency of other, better political documentaries like the superb Weiner or The War Room…

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Review of Happy End (2017)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 Jan 2018

Haneke's family films offer zero warmth, little compassion and suicidal characters who've had it with phoniness and insincerity…

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Review of The Post (2017)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 06 Jan 2018

Streep is magnificent, and when it comes time to compile her legacy, this performance, one full of fear, confidence, verve and doubt, will…

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Review of Hostiles (2017)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 06 Jan 2018

Clearly, it's Cooper's intent to make Hostiles his Unforgiven, but what he's wrought is closer to Unforgivable…

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Review of Molly's Game (2017)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 Dec 2017

When you ante up the mellifluous writing of Aaron Sorkin with the unparalleled acting of Jessica Chastain, you're bound to hit the jackpot…

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Review of I, Tonya (2017)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 23 Dec 2017

It's puzzling why Gillespie opted to retell Harding's off-told story, but with big assists from Robbie and Janney, he makes it seem new…

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