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Review of Ghost in the Shell (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 29 Mar 2017

Nominal questions about the true nature of The Major are stand-ins for bigger themes -- technological intrusion into the human realm, and whether…

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Review of The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 28 Mar 2017

The movie is so dutiful and tactful that it sometimes feels mechanical, constrained by its story rather than inspired by it…

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Review of Frantz (2016)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 28 Mar 2017

Frantz plays at times like a parody of an arthouse movie…

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Review of CHiPs (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 23 Mar 2017

The new movie version of CHIPS is smart to have jettisoned just about everything about the original, except the basic plot…

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Review of The Sense of an Ending (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 15 Mar 2017

I think Batra is smart to have shifted the movie's focus to Tony's adult missteps, which after all he's in a position to do something about…

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Review of Beauty and the Beast (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 15 Mar 2017

The live action numbers are competently staged by director Bill Condon…

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Review of The Last Word (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 15 Mar 2017

The Last Word is a love letter to [MacLaine], but respect would have helped the movie more…

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Review of Raw (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 15 Mar 2017

I did not barf, but I did check my watch a few times…

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Review of Donald Cried (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 08 Mar 2017

Much of the movie's can't-look-away appeal rides on Avedisian's impressively detailed, internalized portrait of left-behind Donald - he wrote…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 08 Mar 2017

Director Jordan Vogt-Robert delivers one fresh and imaginative surprise after another, cleverly framed, nicely paced…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 Mar 2017

Logan is not really asking us to consider the plight of vulnerable children, it's encouraging us to get off on it…

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Review of Before I Fall (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 Mar 2017

There is something irresistible about this device, and something about the feedback-loop narrative that is particularly well-suited to movies,…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 23 Feb 2017

It's clever stuff. Still, while I admired the conceptual daring of the movie, I confess I was never actually scared…

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Review of Fist Fight (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 16 Feb 2017

The fight itself is actually well-staged - several minutes of inventive physical comedy…

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Review of Fifty Shades Darker (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 09 Feb 2017

I kept thinking how awesome it would be if the trilogy would conclude with a Lego Shades Movie…

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Review of John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 08 Feb 2017

The original and this sequel succeed in part for the way they give all of this mayhem an inventive context…

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Review of The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 08 Feb 2017

The movie functions as an affectionate Hollywood house satire of the genre -- one of the most consistently inventive since Airplane…

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Review of The Space Between Us (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 02 Feb 2017

The only good thing to come from this is the opportunity for Gary Oldman to impersonate space travel impresario Richard Branson, and even that…

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Review of Everybody's All-American (1988)

By Barbara Beck (1) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Aug 2016

Backed by flawless acting from an ensemble cast, Hackford gives us a suave and artful portrait of Quaid as Gavin Grey…

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Review of Boyz n the Hood (1991)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 31 Jul 2016

What's fresh about Boyz N The Hood is the contemporary L.A. setting, presented with care and energy by young writer/director Singleton…

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