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Review of Viena and the Fantomes (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 30 Jun 2020

A dispiriting film that has languished on the shelf since 2014, it stars Dakota Fanning but is likely being released now with the hope that…

Review of My Spy (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 24 Jun 2020

The pedestrian script inevitably gets sidetracked into a possible romance between JJ and Kate, keeping the film from building much real chemistry…

Review of You Should Have Left (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Jun 2020

Koepp and his cast successfully convey how afraid the family becomes once it's clear they're being supernaturally prevented from leaving the…

Review of The Last Days of American Crime (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 05 Jun 2020

A poorly imagined crime flick that comes nowhere near justifying its 2.5-hour running time…

Review of I Will Make You Mine (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 28 May 2020

The easygoing drama points its ensemble toward domesticity, watching as each character flirts with nostalgia and questions the wisdom of settled-down…

Review of The Man Standing Next (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 May 2020

Though touching on a le Carre-like web of loyalties, ambition and hidden agendas, the film is generally less engrossing than that might suggest,…

Review of The Trip to Greece (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 18 May 2020

This is a lazy feature with few laughs and fewer vicarious travel thrills, despite some nice photography of craggy coastlines and ancient villages…

Review of Blood and Money (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 May 2020

A solid B movie whose pleasures aren't diminished much by the screenplay's dicey dialogue — plenty of the film has no dialogue at all —…

Review of The Wrong Missy (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 May 2020

Even with locked-down consumers scraping the bottom of the Netflix content trough, this new addition to the lineup is pretty dreary…

Review of Arkansas (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 04 May 2020

Despite some promising moments, the project never quite takes flight, partly thanks to mismatched performances that don't seem to agree on…

Review of Sergio (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 Apr 2020

This portrait of influential U.N…

Review of Butt Boy (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 Apr 2020

Less outrageous or provocative than puzzling, it will appeal to a very specific sort of irony-hungry moviegoer and leave most others shrugging…

Review of The Quarry (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Apr 2020

Sensitive performances only go so far toward generating sparks in the slow-moving film, which never becomes the crime-and-punishment nail-biter…

Review of Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 09 Apr 2020

The pic's claims grow wilder by the minute, and its power to persuade is undercut by narration scripted like a YouTube conspiracy film…

Review of Coffee & Kareem (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 03 Apr 2020

Making a film that feels two days long is not the same thing as making 48 Hrs…

Review of Uncorked (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 27 Mar 2020

The film has a solid feel for family dynamics and local color…

Review of Resistance (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Mar 2020

Though Marceau's artistic ideals are central to the film, Resistance happily avoids novelty, making its hero one credible human among many…

Review of Inside the Rain (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Mar 2020

The untrained actor is the weakest link in an already hit-and-miss cast, and few viewers will respond to Ben's unearned bravado…

Review of Escape from Pretoria (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 06 Mar 2020

Star Daniel Radcliffe will be the biggest draw here, but the pic's focus on planning and genre mechanics over personalities may limit its appeal…

Review of Run This Town (2020)

By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 06 Mar 2020

An involving and ambitious fictionalized look at Rob Ford's downfall that is far from satisfied with gawking at that Toronto trainwreck, Ricky…

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