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Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 24 Jul 2018

Cruise once again shows that being 56-years-old is no barrier to being an action hero while the movie itself proves that being a summer blockbuster…

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Review of Sorry to Bother You (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 10 Jul 2018

A politically charged, love-it-or-hate-it, speculative-fiction fantasy that ruthlessly skewers and satirizes the modern age while also being…

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Review of The First Purge (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 04 Jul 2018

Unfortunately, despite a strong start and some action-movie pleasures throughout, The First Purge is a little too heavy handed, routine and…

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Review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jun 2018

It wouldn't be a surprise to discover that the film wasn't based on a script but a schematic, a blueprint for everything Hollywood desires…

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Review of American Animals (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 12 Jun 2018

Takes a mild curiosity from a long-ago news cycle and elevates it into something singularly fascinating…

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Review of First Reformed (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 06 Jun 2018

The latest film from pugnacious director/writer Paul Schrader is as austere and revelatory as a church confessional...It's a bleak portrait…

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Review of Hereditary (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 05 Jun 2018

Hereditary is closer in tone to the likes of The Babadook, It Follows, A Quiet Place and It Comes at Night, where the dread and fear come not…

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Review of On Chesil Beach (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 03 Jun 2018

On Chesil Beach is PBS-tasteful in its approach, but its power rests in a restraint that makes what it builds to all the more moving…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 15 May 2018

It's tantalizing to wonder what the film that Miller and Lord would have been…

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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 23 Apr 2018

Just when it looks as if all hope is smothered under the heavy weight of fan expectations [and] a reported $300 million budget, it comes roaring…

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Review of Foxtrot (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 03 Apr 2018

A despairing work that's not quite as gripping as its predecessor, Foxtrot still manages to make a powerful statement about the unintended…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2016)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 02 Apr 2018

A Quiet Place is the one film where, if you are surrounded by popcorn-crunching, cellophane rattling and cell-phone-chatting neighbors, you…

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Review of Isle of Dogs (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 26 Mar 2018

Wes Anderson Isle of Dogs is such a feast of illustrated imagination and subtle wit in its depiction of an exiled canine kingdom that the idea…

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Review of Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 21 Mar 2018

Pacific Rim Uprising is a lot like the city-crunching monsters it stars: big, loud and as dull-witted as Homer Simpson roused from a medically…

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Review of The Cured (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 21 Mar 2018

At its best, it has the provocative cunning of a Black Mirror episode…

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Review of The Party (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 02 Mar 2018

There are moments, mostly in the latter half, when the ensemble works well together and Thomas, especially, gets to shine as her world falls…

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Review of A Fantastic Woman (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 28 Feb 2018

A Fantastic Woman is the role of a lifetime for Vega, but let's hope it's just the start of a career, not the end…

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Review of Black Panther (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 11 Feb 2018

Visually, Black Panther is often spectacular...It's warriors with spears and force-field shields…

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Review of Kickboxer: Retaliation (2018)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 24 Jan 2018

Unlike the last movie, which stumbled when outside the ring, [the director] doesn't bog things down with too much plot about fraternal bonding,…

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Review of Disappearance (2017)

By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 19 Jan 2018

Ali Asgari's second feature is an intimate, compelling look at a relationship in crisis coming up against the immovable wall that is Iran's…

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