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Movie Reviews by Peter Rainer - Page 11 of 129

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Review of Wonder Wheel (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 01 Dec 2017

Movies don’t become great by association, and Wonder Wheel is a far cry from “Streetcar.” There are ample flaws in this film, but they…

Review of Wonder (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 01 Dec 2017

Being prolific isn't a crime, but with Allen, what you often get are retreads dolled up to look brand-new…

Review of The Shape of Water (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 01 Dec 2017

The best parts of The Shape of Water, a fantasy fairy tale set in 1962 in a top-secret aerospace research center, are marvelously rhapsodic…

Review of Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 27 Nov 2017

There are some great, rapturous moments in Where the Wild Things Are. Jonze is humbled before the wonders of a child's imagination, and so are we…

Review of Call Me by Your Name (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 24 Nov 2017

The sensuous atmosphere often preempts the drama…

Review of The Darkest Hour (2011)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 22 Nov 2017

This is pretty standard-issue Great Man of History psychobabble, and it’s insufficient, though somewhat satisfyingly so. The clichés go down easy…

Review of Darkest Hour (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 22 Nov 2017

This is pretty standard-issue Great Man of History psychobabble, and it’s insufficient, though somewhat satisfyingly so. The clichés go down easy…

Review of Coco (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 22 Nov 2017

It lacks the delirious inventiveness and irreverence of the best Pixar movies (which for me would be the “Toy Story” trilogy, “The Incredibles,”…

Review of The Man Who Bought Mustique (2001)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 20 Nov 2017

Glenconner is such a class-conscious caricature that he doesn't need the filmmakers to do him in; he does a sterling job all by himself…

Review of War, Inc. (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 19 Nov 2017

It's a bewildering mix of very smart and very dumb, but the cast, which also features a hilarious Joan Cusack, Ben Kingsley, Marisa Tomei,…

Review of Mudbound (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Nov 2017

The movie is admirable in its ambitions; in its execution, less so…

Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 10 Nov 2017

McDormand is a bit too spartan and sealed off in the role. Her steeliness doesn’t have enough emotional levels…

Review of Casanova (2005)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 05 Nov 2017

Although Casanova is far from a stinker, I can't join in the chorus of praise for what is essentially a coy farce replete with arch performances…

Review of Lady Bird (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 03 Nov 2017

Frisky and oddball in ways that are sometimes annoying and more often ingratiating…

Review of Last Flag Flying (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 03 Nov 2017

The bromance often seems generic, too…

Review of Lars and the Real Girl (2007)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 02 Nov 2017

The movie is an idyllic view of life as it ought to be, rather than the way it is…

Review of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 30 Oct 2017

For most of the way this ecofriendly fantasy is pleasantly clunky, and Reeves, whose expressive range here is slim to none, is perfectly cast…

Review of Suburbicon (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 27 Oct 2017

Suburbicon, directed by George Clooney, grafts two distinctly different types of genres: the socially conscious race relations movie and grisly…

Review of Wonderstruck (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 26 Oct 2017

It’s the sort of poetic conceit that needs a filmmaker far more rapt and intuitive than Haynes, whose jeweler’s precision keeps everything…

Review of Bean (1997)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Dallas Observer (1,128) on 25 Oct 2017

Bean represents a dismal dumbing-down of a very bright creation. Is nothing sacred…

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