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Review of Dune (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 19 Oct 2021

This might be a Dune that could even be appreciated by someone unfamiliar with Dune…

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Review of I'm Your Man (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 13 Oct 2021

I’m Your Man is certainly a metaphor for our increasingly intimate relationship with our own technology…

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Review of Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 30 Sep 2021

If brevity is indeed the soul of wit, at a tidy 90 minutes, Venom: Let There Be Carnage is on point for what it largely is - a violently slapstick…

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Review of Titane (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 28 Sep 2021

An audacious and demented film, tailor-made for its recent Midnight Madness slot at the Toronto International Film Festival, Julia Ducournau’s…

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Review of Saint-Narcisse (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 21 Sep 2021

There’s an entertaining commitment to the story and its references in Saint-Narcisse (a real place that may be impossible to photograph badly,…

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Review of Best Sellers (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 14 Sep 2021

Its script is undercooked and veers in random directions from its simple premise. But it has a heart, and two likeable leads who work well together…

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Review of The Card Counter (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 07 Sep 2021

A tale of trauma told, fittingly, with a poker face, Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter is a sure-handed rumination on redemption and finding…

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Review of The Suicide Squad (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 05 Aug 2021

The Suicide Squad, Gunn’s sequel to David Ayer’s poorly reviewed first try at the tale of a group of super-villains forced to be good guys,…

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Review of Here Today (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 03 Aug 2021

Here Today is the movie Crystal directs, a genial, monotone of good-heartedness that isn’t as funny as it wants to be or needs to be, but…

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Review of Jungle Cruise (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 01 Aug 2021

For the first two acts at least, Jungle Cruise is reasonably good fodder for a family outing, very much a theme park ride of the cinematic kind…

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Review of Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 22 Jul 2021

There’s a little more room for characters to breathe. This is not to last, however…

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Review of Jolt (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 20 Jul 2021

As utterly derivative action films go, Jolt has definite energy, and it’s not pretending to be original…

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Review of Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 14 Jul 2021

The fast pace is attention-span theatre for the young’uns, and the adult-aimed quips are entertaining for a while…

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Review of Pig (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 13 Jul 2021

If this seems like a bit of a deep dive when the subject is trendy restaurants in Portland, Pig is a serious movie with heady themes that just…

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Review of The Tomorrow War (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 01 Jul 2021

With echoes of Starship Troopers (minus the pointed satire), The Tomorrow War, starring Chris Pratt, is the second noisy “temporal war”…

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Review of Akilla's Escape (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 14 Jun 2021

Given the accelerated pace of a 90-minute movie whose main narrative happens in one night, Williams gives a powerfully controlled performance,…

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Review of The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 03 Jun 2021

It’s a lesser episode to be sure…

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Review of Cruella (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 28 May 2021

Despite its winks at its source material, Cruella is very much a fun, stand-alone movie that lets two formidable actresses fly while everyone…

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Review of Bloodthirsty (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 21 May 2021

Canadians already made the definitive young-woman-turned-werewolf movie, with 2000’s Ginger Snaps, which is a bar to clear if Bloodthirsty…

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Review of Together Together (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 13 May 2021

Hovering over Together Together is the expectation that two people who enjoy each other’s company as much as Matt and Anna do will eventually…

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