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Review of Fences (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

All that being said, Washington and Viola Davis - reprising their 2010 Broadway roles - are so damn good and the supporting cast is so solid,…

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Review of Moana (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

My nearly five-year-old granddaughter found parts of it too scary, but it's a rousing tale of an ancient island people, their gods and monsters…

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Review of Jackie (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

What a tense, absorbing, startling film it is. Natalie Portman is simply astounding…

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Review of The Accountant (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

The Accountant is, like The Girl on the Train, not a great film, but totally worth seeing…

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Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

Did I love it? Not really. But I liked it just fine. It needed it to be much better than those best-forgotten Episodes I-III, and it does just that…

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Review of Arrival (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

Arrival is not classic flight-from-reality faire but it sure got me out of the doldrums…

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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

Kenneth Lonergan, the writer/director of You Can Count on Me, another finely nuanced film on difficult families and a personal favorite of…

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Review of Patriots Day (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

What Patriot's Day manages to do, and do well, is take a story whose ending we are all familiar with and make it not just suspenseful, but…

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Review of Lion (2015)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

[It's] alternately emotionally wrenching and veering on the sentimental…

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Review of Lion (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

[It's] alternately emotionally wrenching and veering on the sentimental…

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Review of Denial (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

Playwright David Hare's script only shines during the courtroom scenes; everything else is flat and uninvolving - a sad waste of talent and subject…

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Review of The Light Between Oceans (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

The story takes a turn halfway through that might be true to the book (I haven't read it) but shifts gears out of the sensual treat we've been…

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Review of La La Land (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

A huge, ambitious, color-soaked film, it's about 80 percent successful at following through on its goal to bring back the American musical…

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Review of Denial (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

Playwright David Hare's script only shines during the courtroom scenes; everything else is flat and uninvolving - a sad waste of talent and subject…

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Review of Hidden Figures (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

I liked Hidden Figures so much I went back to see it again. And I liked it just as much the second time…

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Review of 20th Century Women (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

Bening shines in 20th Century Women, a small gem of a film…

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Review of The Girl on the Train (2016)

By Diane Pershing (77) for Malibu Times (77) on 09 Mar 2017

While it's not a great movie, I found it absorbing for the most part, an intriguing use of the unreliable narrator (which has been over-used…

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