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Review of The Jungle Book (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 14 Apr 2016

Thankfully, the usual Disney cutesy factor is relatively low, and the script by Justin Marks is more literate than usual for this sort of thing…

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Review of The Jungle Book (1994)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 14 Apr 2016

Thankfully, the usual Disney cutesy factor is relatively low, and the script by Justin Marks is more literate than usual for this sort of thing…

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Review of The Jungle Book (1967)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 14 Apr 2016

Thankfully, the usual Disney cutesy factor is relatively low, and the script by Justin Marks is more literate than usual for this sort of thing…

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Review of Appaloosa (2008)

By Robert Koehler (477) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 08 Apr 2016

As director, Harris takes this classical sense of the western too far, though, until it seems that the movie is carefully trying to keep the…

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Review of The Boss (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 07 Apr 2016

I persist in believing that Melissa McCarthy is capable of starring in a movie that not only makes a scads of money but is – you know – good…

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Review of Francofonia (2015)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 07 Apr 2016

Sokurov is a playful philosopher…

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Review of Demolition (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 07 Apr 2016

The best I can say is that it’s another tour de force for Gyllenhaal, although his intensity isn’t matched by the movie itself, which sacrifices…

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Review of The Boss (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 07 Apr 2016

I persist in believing that Melissa McCarthy is capable of starring in a movie that not only makes a scads of money but is – you know – good…

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Review of Babel (2006)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 06 Apr 2016

Messrs. Iñárritu and Arriaga have played this card one too many times…

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Review of The Prince & Me (2004)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 01 Apr 2016

Quite appealing, thanks to good-humored acting and to Martha Coolidge's quiet directing style…

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Review of Miles Ahead (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 31 Mar 2016

Miles Ahead is obviously a labor of love, but it falls into the trap of so many biopics about anguished artists – it confuses the anguish…

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Review of Born to Be Blue (2015)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 27 Mar 2016

It’s a strange, unsatisfying, fragmented movie, but at its best it belongs in the same unconventional continuum as Todd Haynes’s “I’m…

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Review of Born to Be Blue (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 25 Mar 2016

It’s a strange, unsatisfying, fragmented movie, but at its best it belongs in the same unconventional continuum as Todd Haynes’s “I’m…

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Review of Fastball (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 25 Mar 2016

The sunniness of Fastball leaves out a lot, but watching it can be as pleasurable as an afternoon at the ballpark…

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Review of Adaptation. (2002)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 22 Mar 2016

Adaptation is sort of like the mythical Ourabouros mentioned in the screenplay -- the snake that eats its own tail -- or like a series of mirrors…

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Review of Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Mar 2016

The best scenes capture the blend of irony, melodrama, and real emotion that distinguishes Fassbinder's most memorable pictures…

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Review of Remember (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Mar 2016

The plot, as it unwinds, is increasingly eye-poppingly preposterous, but it holds you anyway, not only because of its outlandishness but because…

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Review of Bowfinger (1999)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 17 Mar 2016

Bowfinger is mediocre . . . can be irksome, tedious, and hard to sit through…

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Review of Brideshead Revisited (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 16 Mar 2016

It's a great piece of work in a movie that, whatever its failings, deserves to be seen even if you swear undying allegiance to the BBC mini-series…

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Review of Asylum (2005)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 16 Mar 2016

Patrick McGrath's novel provides a solid and suspenseful story, even if it loses much of its bite in Mackenzie's hands…

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