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Review of The Promise (2016)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 26 Apr 2017

How did a film so loaded with good intentions and talent on both sides of the camera go so badly off the rails…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 26 Apr 2017

How did a film so loaded with good intentions and talent on both sides of the camera go so badly off the rails…

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Review of The Fate of the Furious (2017)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 19 Apr 2017

Transcendently stupid, flat-out nuts and pretty damned irresistible, The Fate of the Furious is the eighth in the series of vroom-vroomers…

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Review of Colossal (2017)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 12 Apr 2017

Part daikaiju-on-the-loose rampage, part quirky romantic comedy-drama a la 28 Days, the risky and occasionally thrilling Colossal doesn't always…

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Review of Frantz (2016)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 05 Apr 2017

It takes a brave, even foolhardy, director to attempt a remake of anything made first by a master director of the order of Ernst Lubitsch,…

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Review of Ghost in the Shell (2017)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 30 Mar 2017

Style is substance in Ghost in the Shell, a super slick and utterly empty live-action gloss on the beloved manga…

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Review of Life (2017)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 28 Mar 2017

No, Life isn't Alien or Gravity. It's more like a jumped-up It! The Terror From Beyond…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 09 Mar 2017

Unfortunately, the movie never comes close to touching the... 1933 original a flat-out masterpiece…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 02 Mar 2017

For what it is, Logan is strong stuff, and a classy sendoff to Wolverine. Let's just hope that Marvel and Jackman let sleeping wolves lie…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 23 Feb 2017

A weird and delicious surprise, Get Out subverts the tired clichés and freshens up the horror game in all kinds of surprising -- and surprisingly…

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Review of The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 10 Feb 2017

Although the second Lego movie doesn't deliver the surprisingly deep emotion or high-wire brilliance of the Phil Lord and Chris Miller-directed…

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Review of I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 02 Feb 2017

Lean, intelligent and leaving you wanting more at 95 minutes, I Am Not Your Negro is a less a portrait of the the towering, fiery James Baldwin…

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Review of Split (2017)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 19 Jan 2017

Nicely shot by Mike Gioulakis, Split keeps us riveted, laughing, jumping out of seats and guessing right to the end…

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Review of Patriots Day (2016)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 12 Jan 2017

You leave the theater impressed, inspired and moved by the unique community spirit known as Boston Strong…

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Review of Passengers (2016)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 19 Dec 2016

Passengers could have been big, shiny, quirky and heart tugging -- a cool holiday popcorn flick. Instead it's empty, anonymous and calculated…

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Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 14 Dec 2016

The resonant and entertaining Rogue One is about the persistence of hope and faith in the darkest of hours…

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Review of La La Land (2016)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 07 Dec 2016

It isn't merely that Chazelle has made a film with eye-popping color and bold lighting, fantastical sets and characters showing their souls…

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Review of Jackie (2016)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 01 Dec 2016

Although often gut-wrenching, the movie is supremely compassionate toward its subject…

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Review of Allied (2016)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 29 Nov 2016

As a tribute to old-time Hollywood genre moviess, Allied is the goods -- stylish, suspenseful, utterly artificial…

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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 18 Nov 2016

With Manchester by the Sea, writer-director Kenneth Lonergan has delivered a quietly devastating sucker punch of a film about the persistence…

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