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Review of The Hate U Give (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 02 Oct 2018

At every turn, Starr's situation gets more nuanced and more engrossing, and in the hands of director George Tillman Jr., the movie maintains…

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Review of Science Fair (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 26 Sep 2018

Sometimes these anecdotes show courageous and admirable striving, and a genuine love of science…

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Review of Night School (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 25 Sep 2018

All of this is in Hart's wheelhouse, and Night School might have fared better if it had surrendered completely to random comedy one-offs…

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Review of Assassination Nation (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 19 Sep 2018

A Heathers meets The Purge meets Russ Meyer free-for-all that takes elements of the Salem witch trials and transposes them to the age of the…

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Review of Blaze (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 18 Sep 2018

The movie's best window into Foley comes via his music, played expressively by Dickey, whose performance finds humor in Foley's rather sad life…

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Review of The Children Act (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 18 Sep 2018

Based on a novel by Ian McEwan, The Children Act wanders into the tricky space created when what is moral and what is legal diverge, and law…

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Review of A Simple Favor (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 11 Sep 2018

There's something to be said for the movie's heavy pour of mommy noir — a jigger of Bombeck, a dash of Highsmith. It's a cocktail with a kick…

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Review of The Predator (2018)

By Nick Vadala (13) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 10 Sep 2018

Even an act of noble sacrifice late in the film has a faintly goofy tone to it, reflective of Shane Black's streak of puckish nihilism…

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Review of Kin (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 30 Aug 2018

Kin positions itself as a B-movie cobbled together from sci-fi favorites of the past, and so we grant the movie wide latitude to be goofy…

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Review of The Little Stranger (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 29 Aug 2018

Waters' novel was content to let the evil within Hundreds Hall remain shapeless and nameless…

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Review of The Wife (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 29 Aug 2018

It's Close who nearly rescues The Wife, grabbing control of it in the crucial final moments, managing to transcend the script to suggest a…

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Review of Juliet, Naked (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 29 Aug 2018

You could call Juliet, Naked a romantic comedy, and you could probably predict with some accuracy how the relationships play out…

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Review of Operation Finale (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 28 Aug 2018

Isaac and Kingsley are game, and their scenes have decent dramatic tension, but of course the outcome is never in doubt, and in the end, Weitz…

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Review of The Happytime Murders (2018)

By Nick Vadala (13) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Aug 2018

The Happytime Murders is a good idea executed badly, or at least one that is trying too hard to be shocking…

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Review of We the Animals (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 21 Aug 2018

The story is nonlinear, a collection of images that can suddenly assemble into an emotion…

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Review of Support the Girls (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 21 Aug 2018

This is another fine performance from Hall, who's given a good character to play by writer-director Andrew Bujalski…

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Review of The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 14 Aug 2018

The filmmakers probably counted on the natural charisma of Moretz to make up the difference, but it doesn't suffice, and Cameron, for a YA…

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Review of Alpha (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 14 Aug 2018

The movie will play in IMAX theaters and 3-D, which is the best way of seeing it…

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Review of Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 13 Aug 2018

Like the finest forebears of the rom-com genre — including its urtext, “Four Weddings and a Funeral” — Crazy Rich Asians indulges in…

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Review of The Meg (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 07 Aug 2018

The movie is a cheerful pastiche, unpretentious and efficient, and the giant shark, when it finally shows up, is a pretty good special effect,…

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