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Review of Jane (2017)

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

Brett Morgen’s documentary Jane brings Goodall’s ineffable and incredible story to vivid life, starting with the aforementioned anecdotes…

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Review of The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)

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

The film does drag on, though, without a great deal of visual distinction, and as the familial complications pile up, the movie seems less…

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Review of Earth Days (2009)

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

Devotees of the Whole Earth Catalogue may regard this film as a nostalgia trip, but it's much more comprehensive, more forward-looking than that…

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Review of American Gangster (2007)

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

Often best around the edges…

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Review of Jefferson in Paris (1995)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 16 Oct 2017

Slow, beautifully filmed, Nolte's Jefferson implausible…

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Review of Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 12 Oct 2017

Ultimately “Ex Libris” demonstrates that libraries are about people, and what gives the film its great and accumulating force is that people…

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Review of The Florida Project (2017)

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

An astonishingly fine movie about the vagaries and frolics of childhood as seen largely through the eyes of its pint-sized protagonists…

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Review of Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

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

There are flashes of visual grandeur in Blade Runner 2049, which was shot by the always-inventive Roger Deakins, but there’s not much reason…

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Review of Saw (2004)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 03 Oct 2017

Horror fans will find plenty to shriek about. Everyone else should keep their distance…

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Review of Enemy of the State (1998)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 30 Sep 2017

The movie has plenty of high-tech power, spinning out action so explosive you'll hardly notice how preposterous the story is or how cardboard-thin…

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Review of Undertow (2004)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 30 Sep 2017

Taking great artistic chances in storytelling and performance style, Green finally fulfills the promise he showed in his fine 2000 drama George…

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Review of Sin Nombre (2009)

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

Fukunaga has a fine, spacious film sense and a gift for action, but the doomy, heavy-handed plot devices and overwrought, overacted gangland…

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Review of American Made (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 28 Sep 2017

Cruise gives his energetic all to the role, but he, too, doesn’t seem to be quite aware that Seal was morally compromised far beyond the…

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Review of Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 28 Sep 2017

The movie is a straightforward nuts-and-bolts affair of no particular consequence, except for Neeson’s performance, which rightly does not…

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Review of Loving Vincent (2017)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 28 Sep 2017

The fact that this movie, with its 65,000 painted frames, was even attempted, is daunting…

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Review of Stronger (2017)

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

Too much of this movie is a conventionally rendered gloss that, in its own way, also attempts to cast Bauman as an inspirational icon…

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Review of Battle of the Sexes (2017)

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

Best not when it is preaching to us but, rather, in those moments when both King and Riggs drop their public faces and reveal the roiling underneath…

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Review of Waydowntown (2002)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 19 Sep 2017

It's a smart and creative comedy that skewers cheaply dehumanizing architecture and self-absorbed yuppie mentalities in a series of skillfully…

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Review of Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 16 Sep 2017

You run across animation this ingenious about as often as a moving castle comes your way…

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Review of Freedomland (2006)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 16 Sep 2017

If Freedomland reminds you of Spike Lee's Clockers, that's not by accident…

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