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Review of BlacKkKlansman (2018)

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

The title promises something of a biography, but I left the movie wanting to know more about Stallworth…

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Review of Generation Wealth (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 Aug 2018

Greenfield makes an ambitious attempt to tie all of these things together as symptoms of capitalism gone wrong in Generation Wealth, although…

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Review of Night Comes On (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 31 Jul 2018

Night Comes On isn’t a docudrama, but it’s informed enough to give us a sense of the obstacles facing young women like Angel…

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Review of The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 31 Jul 2018

A bawdy, bloody but only sporadically funny spy spoof and buddy comedy…

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Review of Eighth Grade (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 24 Jul 2018

Writer-director Bo Burnham is after something different here, a complex, thoughtful and funny look at the way the internet can insert itself…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 24 Jul 2018

[Cruise] makes the movie fun to watch with his age-defying eagerness and death-defying stunts that bring a reasonably human scale back to blockbuster…

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Review of Blindspotting (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 24 Jul 2018

It comes off as fairly organic, at least until the ending, when the device is undercut by an outrageous narrative coincidence that works against…

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Review of Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)

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

The cast is uniformly fine, although Rooney Mara is stuck playing a composite of various women that feels, well, like a composite of various women…

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Review of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 17 Jul 2018

Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) has been brought in to class up the dialogue, and add some one-liners…

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Review of The Equalizer 2 (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 17 Jul 2018

[Washington] portrays McCall as a penitent, a fellow making up for past sins by helping the powerless, the abused (the movies could stand to…

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Review of Leave No Trace (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 10 Jul 2018

Leave No Trace, is less story-driven than Winter’s Bone (which made a star of Jennifer Lawrence), more lyrical, more attuned to the melancholy…

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Review of Skyscraper (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 10 Jul 2018

OK, so it’s ridiculous, but slightly ridiculous action movies are Johnson’s brand (they’re actually making a sequel to San Andreas),…

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Review of Sorry to Bother You (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 10 Jul 2018

The movie is wildly uneven but lively and timely – in its own surreal way (nods to Idiocracy and The Island of Dr…

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Review of Boundaries (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 05 Jul 2018

Plummer and Farmiga seem like a potential dream team, but the pairing instantly feels wrong – they don’t scan as father and daughter, and…

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Review of Boundaries (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 04 Jul 2018

Plummer and Farmiga seem like a potential dream team, but the pairing instantly feels wrong – they don’t scan as father and daughter, and…

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Review of Whitney (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 04 Jul 2018

Whitney offers an informed and moving portrait of a complex, talented woman who was poorly understood, and often cruelly judged…

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Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 04 Jul 2018

There’s too much convoluted plot...and the movie at times feels big and ponderous, like Ant-Man when his malfunctioning suit does the opposite…

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Review of The First Purge (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 03 Jul 2018

This is the culmination of DeMonaco’s seething Purge scenarios, which have become increasingly focused on polarization and rage…

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Review of Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (2018)

By Elizabeth Wellington (2) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 28 Jun 2018

While I learned a lot about Westwood, it just didn’t feel like enough…

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Review of Too Big to Fail (2011)

By Ellen Gray (6) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 24 Jun 2018

This is undeniably an important story, told in a relatively no-nonsense fashion, about a complex set of events that even people who watch PBS…

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