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Review of The Post (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 26 Dec 2017

Most fans of the film will fall left of the political center, but even those who think revealers of government secrets belong in jail will…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Garrett Schaffel (5) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 20 Dec 2017

Here, [Mark] Hamill turns in his best performance, giving the character a depth and complexity that wasn't as evident in the original trilogy…

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Review of The Greatest Showman (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 20 Dec 2017

The music is grabby, but the story itself has problems…

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Review of The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 14 Dec 2017

The movie pokily moseys across its vast, resonant landscape, but like Lefty, it picks up the pace and gradually grows into a flawed kind of greatness…

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Review of The Shape of Water (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 07 Dec 2017

The bad guys are a bit cliched, but you've never seen a film with the drifty, incredibly dreamy look of this masterpiece…

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Review of I, Tonya (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 07 Dec 2017

Nobody was asking for a film about a trashy tabloid tale from long ago, but everybody is applauding it now…

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Review of Coco (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 30 Nov 2017

Besides being the first great Pixar movie about Hispanics, Coco is the best film about Alzheimer's since Marjorie Prime and Away From Her…

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Review of Lady Bird (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 30 Nov 2017

First-time director Greta Gerwig has created a film that's heartfelt, sometimes heartbreaking and a sure Oscar contender…

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Review of The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 30 Nov 2017

Like Shakespeare in Love or Finding Neverland, the film depicts the visions and revisions leading up to a masterpiece, the random bits of life…

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Review of Call Me by Your Name (2017)

By Garrett Schaffel (5) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 22 Nov 2017

Elio and Oliver's relationship has an authentic tenderness under the direction of Luca Guadagnino, who's created the best coming-of-age story…

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Review of Darkest Hour (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 22 Nov 2017

What distinguishes Darkest Hour is that it's a film based on words: the three famous speeches Britain's prime minister rallied the world with in 1940…

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Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 16 Nov 2017

There has never been a better time for a woman-centric movie, especially one about a smart, angry woman…

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Review of Mudbound (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 16 Nov 2017

What redeems all this sprawl is Rees' precision, thoughtfulness, and sheer authenticity…

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Review of Wonder (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 16 Nov 2017

This tearjerker (based on the mega-best-selling book by R.J…

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Review of Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 09 Nov 2017

You don't find many ensembles to match these terrified homicide perpetrators or victims…

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Review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 03 Nov 2017

While the magic monster boy is a dark force of nature, even more scary is what's in the parents' hearts…

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Review of LBJ (2017)

By Thelma Adams (133) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 02 Nov 2017

Harrelson and Reiner have succeeded in creating the rare mature Hollywood political movie, exploring those qualities that make an effective…

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Review of Novitiate (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 26 Oct 2017

The story is episodic, rigorously based on 1960s diaries and sources, but that's what makes it so authentic…

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Review of Suburbicon (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 26 Oct 2017

One day Clooney will be an American master in the directors pantheon, I think. But Suburbicon won't be the film to put him there…

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Review of Only the Brave (2017)

By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 19 Oct 2017

It's refreshing to see older actors in roles that command respect, instead of going for the cheap laughs Hollywood often associates with age…

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