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Review of On Chesil Beach (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 03 Jun 2018

On Chesil Beach is PBS-tasteful in its approach, but its power rests in a restraint that makes what it builds to all the more moving…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 15 May 2018

It's tantalizing to wonder what the film that Miller and Lord would have been…

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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 23 Apr 2018

Just when it looks as if all hope is smothered under the heavy weight of fan expectations [and] a reported $300 million budget, it comes roaring…

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Review of Foxtrot (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 03 Apr 2018

A despairing work that's not quite as gripping as its predecessor, Foxtrot still manages to make a powerful statement about the unintended…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2016)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 02 Apr 2018

A Quiet Place is the one film where, if you are surrounded by popcorn-crunching, cellophane rattling and cell-phone-chatting neighbors, you…

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Review of Isle of Dogs (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 26 Mar 2018

Wes Anderson Isle of Dogs is such a feast of illustrated imagination and subtle wit in its depiction of an exiled canine kingdom that the idea…

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Review of Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 21 Mar 2018

Pacific Rim Uprising is a lot like the city-crunching monsters it stars: big, loud and as dull-witted as Homer Simpson roused from a medically…

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Review of The Cured (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 21 Mar 2018

At its best, it has the provocative cunning of a Black Mirror episode…

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Review of The Party (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 02 Mar 2018

There are moments, mostly in the latter half, when the ensemble works well together and Thomas, especially, gets to shine as her world falls…

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Review of A Fantastic Woman (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 28 Feb 2018

A Fantastic Woman is the role of a lifetime for Vega, but let's hope it's just the start of a career, not the end…

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Review of Black Panther (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 11 Feb 2018

Visually, Black Panther is often spectacular...It's warriors with spears and force-field shields…

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Review of Kickboxer: Retaliation (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 24 Jan 2018

Unlike the last movie, which stumbled when outside the ring, [the director] doesn't bog things down with too much plot about fraternal bonding,…

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Review of Disappearance (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 19 Jan 2018

Ali Asgari's second feature is an intimate, compelling look at a relationship in crisis coming up against the immovable wall that is Iran's…

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Review of Disappearance (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 19 Jan 2018

Ali Asgari's second feature is an intimate, compelling look at a relationship in crisis coming up against the immovable wall that is Iran's…

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Review of The Post (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 11 Jan 2018

While physical newspapers may not be as much a part of American life as they used to be, the occasional films about their publication - such…

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Review of Hostiles (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 04 Jan 2018

Along with another 2017 film, Wind River, Hostiles is a welcome story that deals with Native American issues, though what would be even more…

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Review of All the Money in the World (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 22 Dec 2017

The result is a surprisingly taut drama whose ultimate lesson resonates with the wisdom of Coco Chanel, who once said, There are people who…

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Review of I, Tonya (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 21 Dec 2017

A pointed satire on athletic ambition and class conflict that's fueled by a biting sense of humor and a couple of knockout performances…

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Review of The Shape of Water (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 14 Dec 2017

The visual stylist spins an adult fairy tale that takes elements from Beauty and the Beast and recasts them in an alternative universe that's…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 12 Dec 2017

The Last Jedi may not possess its immediate predecessors' pleasant shock of the new, nor is it a stylistic detour from what's expected…

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