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Review of I, Daniel Blake (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 01 Jun 2017

Loach's half-century long efforts in his many films about the working class haven't always succeeded, but he's always tried…

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Review of A Quiet Passion (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 18 May 2017

Dickinson's struggle against lifelong underestimation had its light side…

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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 18 May 2017

There's more monster for the buck than there was in the previous Prometheus, but the human hosts don't make an impression…

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Review of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 11 May 2017

The cockney-dickhead approach to Arthurian lore has never been tried before…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 04 May 2017

There are a lot of morsels here -- dozens, really -- and it starts off the summer with a bang…

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Review of Killing for Love (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 27 Apr 2017

The script here is more than problematic, uneasy with levity (Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder, says Myers, telling a joke already centuries…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 27 Apr 2017

The script here is more than problematic, uneasy with levity (Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder, says Myers, telling a joke already centuries…

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Review of The Promise (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 27 Apr 2017

The script here is more than problematic, uneasy with levity (Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder, says Myers, telling a joke already centuries…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 27 Apr 2017

The script here is more than problematic, uneasy with levity (Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder, says Myers, telling a joke already centuries…

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Review of The Fate of the Furious (2017)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 20 Apr 2017

Autos cascade like a waterfall from the top of a parking garage; sometimes their on-board computers are cyber-jacked so that they besiege midtown…

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Review of The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 13 Apr 2017

Despite the snazzy title... Curse of the Cat People has as much pity and tears in it as chills…

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Review of Tommy's Honour (2017)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 13 Apr 2017

Connery excels in showing the changing of times, the shifting from the early to the middle Victorian era over the course of the young Tommy's…

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Review of Ghost in the Shell (2017)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 06 Apr 2017

ScarJo breaks a lot of real and synthetic bones, but the movie doesn't break any new ground…

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Review of The Boss Baby (2017)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 06 Apr 2017

It's vibrantly colorful, delightfully odd and seriously under the influence of Looney Tunes…

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Review of Life (2017)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 05 Apr 2017

It's unclear this movie has a reason to exist, beyond the reason of showing what a sucker's game it is to try to top Alien…

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Review of Beauty and the Beast (2017)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 16 Mar 2017

One of the blandest, most nervous and most cluttered fairy tale movies that Disney has ever released -- Bill Condon's redo is a rococo La La…

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Review of My Scientology Movie (2016)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 16 Mar 2017

My Scientology Film's novelty is it finds a bleak humor in the problems of a reporter trying to crack a stone wall…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 09 Mar 2017

The witty and energetic director Jordan Vogt-Roberts corrals hallucinatory megafauna, who attack with viscera-splattering violence…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 02 Mar 2017

With dignity and grace, Jackman says sayonara to this signature role…

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Review of Kedi (2017)

By Richard Von Busack (346) for MetroActive (325) on 02 Mar 2017

In 80 minutes, the city and the cats never get stale…

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