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Review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 20 Jun 2018

The opening sections has a feel of a competent if familiar effects movie, but the film changes mood and tone when story movies the foreboding…

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Review of Gotti (2018)

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

Gotti ends up feeling like a kitschy assemblage of other directors’ ideas…

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Review of Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

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

Hearts Beat Loud (despite is gooey title) has a bittersweet tone that tells us that Frank’s dreams are mostly wishful thinking…

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Review of Incredibles 2 (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 12 Jun 2018

Jack-Jack turns out to be a jackpot…

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Review of Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 06 Jun 2018

It is a portrait not of grinding earnestness but of a penetrating sincerity, the kind that reduces the cynical, the skeptical, and the callous…

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Review of Hotel Artemis (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 06 Jun 2018

There’s nothing especially striking about the movie’s visual presentation – the Artemis is threadbare and creaky, a purposely anachronistic…

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Review of Hereditary (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 06 Jun 2018

Writer-director Ari Aster excels at making these old-school horror movie moves (he gets great mileage out of seance scenes), and the intensifying…

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Review of American Animals (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 06 Jun 2018

I’ve never seen anything like it, and I would have found it persuasive had I not read the 2007 Vanity Fair article based on interviews with…

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Review of Ocean's Eight (2018)

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

Chemistry among the women is smooth, maybe excessively so…

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Review of First Reformed (2018)

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

The scenes with Hawke, Cedric, and Gaston are improbably tense, in part because each character is given a rich and forceful voice in a way…

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Review of Upgrade (2018)

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

It’s a funny concept, helped by Marshall-Green’s blended look of pleasure and consternation at being the vessel for an invincibility that…

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Review of Adrift (2018)

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

There is the potential here for an engaging adventure/survival tale, wrapped in a story of a woman finding her self-confidence by drawing on…

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Review of The Seagull (2018)

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

Bening is great fun to watch here, even when she’s just watching…

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Review of The Seagull (2018)

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

Bening is great fun to watch here, even when she’s just watching…

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Review of The Seagull (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 23 May 2018

Bening is great fun to watch here, even when she’s just watching…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 May 2018

Solo eventually finds its feet, and the movie gets better as it goes, but we feel throughout the tension between conflicting visions of Howard…

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Review of Beast (2018)

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

Suffice it to say, there is a good deal for Buckley to do, and she does it…

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Review of Book Club (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 16 May 2018

There are also Photoshopped aggregations of Bergen, Fonda, Keaton and Steenburgen, and though they were never actually grouped together when…

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Review of Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 16 May 2018

A Man of His Word...is not a lecture…

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Review of Beast (2018)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 16 May 2018

Suffice it to say, there is a good deal for Buckley to do, and she does it…

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