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Review of Battle of the Sexes (2017)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 04 Oct 2017

Trailblazers like Billie Jean King deserve our thanks, and the tribute she receives in this movie…

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Review of Gender Wars (2015)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 04 Oct 2017

Trailblazers like Billie Jean King deserve our thanks, and the tribute she receives in this movie…

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Review of Rebel in the Rye (2017)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 27 Sep 2017

Strong loses focus by stuffing his movie with too many incidental details, like an early draft of a novel with too much material left in that…

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Review of Pan (2015)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

It's a shipwrecked extravaganza for an audience that doesn't exist…

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Review of Pawn Sacrifice (2015)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

[Bobby] Fischer is still considered by many as the greatest chess player of all time. [Edward] Zwick's film invites us to ponder if that is enough…

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Review of Get On Up (2014)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

[Chadwick] Boseman captures the volatility, on and offstage, of the entity we recognize as James Brown, the flamboyance, the fierce ambition,…

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Review of The Square (2008)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

The atmosphere becomes so charged that, even the insidious way a man makes an appointment to get his hair cut seems fraught with innuendo and peril…

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Review of Jersey Boys (2014)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

Large sections of the storytelling feel inert, and some key moments get short shrift…

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Review of St. Vincent (2014)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

A well-meaning movie that never is quite what it wants to be…

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Review of Wild (2014)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

While the man-(or in this case, woman)-versus-wilderness aspect of the story provides visual engagement, it's the backstory- more than the…

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Review of Foxcatcher (2014)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

The actors save the day…

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Review of My Old Lady (2014)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

The plot thread that entangles all these people and places may not be entirely unexpected, but it's all handled with enough sensitivity and…

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Review of In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

There are moments that drag like a fouled anchor, when Howard's Hollywood sensibility gets a little schmaltzy-swelling music, philosophical…

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Review of Into the Woods (2014)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

Into the Woods is a savvy piece of moviemaking that delivers Sondheim's witty lyrics and intricate harmonies with style and clarity, while…

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Review of Chi-Raq (2015)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

[Chi-Raq] is an in-your-face explosion of anger and vitality…

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Review of Trumbo (2015)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

[Bryan] Cranston plays Trumbo with an edgy, raging wit…

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Review of Force Majeure (2014)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

Filmmaker [Ruben] Östlund's design is fascinating in the way Ebba's story soon becomes a litmus test for gender, family, and even age issues…

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Review of Song of the Sea (2014)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

Every hand-drawn frame of this movie is ravishing…

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Review of Life Itself (2014)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 11 Sep 2017

In [Steve] James' affectionate telling, Ebert's life, itself, was bountiful indeed…

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Review of Southside with You (2016)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

Their abstract gazes, alone in their separate homes at evening's end, will resonate with anyone who has ever suddenly been in love…

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