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Review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 19 Oct 2017

[Yorgos] Lanthimos keeps delivering amusement as the cruelty expands, which I guess is his way of saying ancient myths still have relevance…

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Review of Te Ata (2017)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 Oct 2017

This inspiring tale of the early 20th Century Chickasaw stage performer and Native culture popularizer Mary Te Ata Thompson, although well-played…

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Review of The Foreigner (2017)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 Oct 2017

Third act has more [Pierce] Brosnan yelling but some decent, if not dazzling, [Jackie] Chan action; he's old but still super, evidently…

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Review of Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 Oct 2017

Incomparably witty as they are impressively smart and achingly vulnerable, Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcote create a perfect…

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Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 11 Oct 2017

The action is plentiful, though not particularly memorable, and, sigh, a sequel has already been announced…

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Review of Lady Macbeth (2016)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 11 Oct 2017

The story of female oppression from William Oldroyd…

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Review of Gerald's Game (2017)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 26 Sep 2017

Gerald's Game uses Hitchcockian suspense to create tensions in an age of few restraints…

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Review of The Big Sick (2017)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 14 Sep 2017

Like Apatow's best, it is filled with quirkiness, pathos, drama - there are stakes involved…

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Review of Wonder Woman (2017)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 14 Sep 2017

While I'm not a big fan of superhero movies, Petty Jenkins' Wonder Woman proved to be entertainingly in its own unique way…

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Review of All Eyez on Me (2017)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 06 Sep 2017

The decision to tell Shakur's story from the artist's point of view may have been honorable in its way, but it's not the best artistic choice…

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Review of Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 23 Aug 2017

By the end ... you won't feel you know anything new about Houston's life. Can I Be Me just raises questions…

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Review of Ingrid Goes West (2017)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 28 Jun 2017

Ingrid Goes West is, however, Plaza's show, and it's through her cocked eyes that we take this mirthful, moving tour of SoCal from the desert…

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Review of The Big Sick (2017)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 22 Jun 2017

The often slick, just occasionally slack Sick is first and foremost an autobiography, and while it's been designed to deliver maximum laughs…

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Review of Patti Cake$ (2017)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 19 Jun 2017

You've seen it all before, but you haven't seen how Patti Cake$ does it…

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Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 18 Jun 2017

It's as if Coppola sought to bring a little humanism to this fundamentally sleazy Southern Gothic, and regardless of how well one feels it…

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Review of Lady Macbeth (2016)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 18 Jun 2017

Bathed though it is in rough behavior and raw sexuality, Lady Macbeth maintains a minimalist discipline that chills the bone even while the…

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Review of The Book of Henry (2017)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 15 Jun 2017

It may all be too much to fully succeed or convince some people, but when The Book of Henry is on its audacious game, there's more than enough…

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Review of Free Fire (2017)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 20 Apr 2017

Free Fire, packed with chaos and surprises though it is, always makes a pulpy kind of sense while delivering barrages of mean-spirited entertainment…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 23 Feb 2017

Sometimes the best social commentary movies are genre films. More often than not, those are the cleverest at it. Get Out fills that task to a T…

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Review of Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2017)

By Rob Lowman (41) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 05 Jan 2017

The real reason to watch Bright Lights is for the scenes between Fisher and Reynolds; some are priceless…

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