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Movie Reviews by Peter Rainer - Page 14 of 129

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Review of The Dark Tower (2017)

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

The direction is fairly formulaic, the special effects are nothing special, and except for Elba and McConaughey, who square off against each…

Review of Wind River (2017)

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

The film is gracefully directed around the edges, but the core story, a kind of existential murder mystery, is swallowed up by a series of…

Review of Detroit (2017)

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

If the film had focused on more than the Algiers Motel incident, if, as it starts out to do, it had attempted to convey a comprehensive and…

Review of The Maid (2009)

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

As it is, The Maid is a study of a character who rarely emerges from the opaque end of the spectrum…

Review of Innocent Voices (2005)

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

The actors, all of whom seem too posed and pretty, are not particularly accomplished, and director Luis Mandoki lacks the visual imagination…

Review of Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)

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

What is strikingly brought home in “Rumble” is how the vast stew of influences in American music, rather than diluting everything, makes…

Review of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)

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

The documentary is like the cinematic equivalent of humblebragging. But it does provide one great “told you so” moment…

Review of Skin (2009)

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

Inherently dramatic but needed a stronger director than Anthony Fabian, who overdoes understatement…

Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 20 Jul 2017

Dunkirk, with its scaled-to-be-a-masterpiece visual grandiosity, aims to be an epic of the spirit, but there is something weirdly underpowered…

Review of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 13 Jul 2017

The film could have been improved by dropping a few battles, and I wish Caesar were not the only ape with the power of human speech…

Review of The Visitor (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 08 Jul 2017

McCarthy is so careful not to take a political stand that his film seems neutered by good intentions…

Review of Wonderful World (2010)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 06 Jul 2017

This is a half-baked movie about a half-baked person, but it has a fine, melancholic afterglow…

Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

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

At times, “Homecoming” resembles a very good after-school special embedded in a cacophonous franchise flick…

Review of The Wrestler (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 04 Jul 2017

A heavy dose of corn syrup…

Review of In the Cut (2003)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 02 Jul 2017

Campion is dabbling in several different types of movie here: police procedural, film noir, romantic melodrama, sex fantasia. None really succeeds…

Review of Okja (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 29 Jun 2017

A nutty, awkward, oddly impassioned parable that mashes together so many different genres that calling it “unclassifiable” doesn’t really…

Review of 21 Grams (2003)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 28 Jun 2017

It’s forceful, to be sure, but in a lurid way that suggests a telenovela that’s been baking in the sun too long…

Review of Beatriz at Dinner (2017)

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

Hayek gives one of her better performances, though – she makes it clear that Beatriz may be righteous, but she’s also more than a bit unhinged…

Review of The Beguiled (2017)

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

A few of the performances, especially Nicole Kidman’s, as the lady in charge, and Kirsten Dunst’s, as the teacher pining to flee with the…

Review of The Big Sick (2017)

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

As a man flummoxed by circumstance and the rifts in his own marriage, Romano is deeply touching in the role…

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