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Review of Beast (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 18 May 2018

Pearce, in his directorial debut, has a ball torturing us with steadily building intrigue, as we futilely attempt to sort out what's what…

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Review of Book Club (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 18 May 2018

Holderman and Simms trade freely in the sort of stereotypes you'd expect from an enterprise intent on putting the sex back into sexagenarian…

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Review of Terminal (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 11 May 2018

With an actress -- and performance -- this alluring, Stein knows his convoluted plot need not make sense. Nor does he try…

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Review of Life of the Party (2018)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 09 May 2018

Just as you're about to write it one off as another of McCarthy's woefully unfunny collaborations (Tammy, The Boss) with her husband-director,…

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Review of Tully (2018)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 05 May 2018

Like a baby taking a morning and afternoon nap - Tully turns out to be too good to be true…

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Review of Disobedience (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 04 May 2018

I wanted it to be more like Todd Haynes' deeply sensual and utterly heartbreaking Carol…

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Review of RBG (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 04 May 2018

What's here is more than enough to sufficiently get your legal briefs in a twist…

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Review of The Rider (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 28 Apr 2018

Fiction and reality blur powerfully into a dizzying treatise on not just a broken cowboy, but also America…

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Review of Ghost Stories (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 28 Apr 2018

The scares are scarce in Ghost Stories, but it's hard not to admire the craftsmanship of writer-directors Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson in creating…

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Review of Kodachrome (2017)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 Apr 2018

What are we to make of director Mark Raso's overtly sincere attempt to tell a tale we've seen a dozen times before? Are we to weep on cue…

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Review of Beirut (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 13 Apr 2018

In chipping the rust off a 27-year-old script and applying a fresh coat of 21st-century technology, director Brad Anderson unveils a twisty-turner…

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Review of Lean on Pete (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 13 Apr 2018

The points Haigh makes about the people left behind in our ever-changing economy have a resonance…

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Review of Borg vs McEnroe (2017)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 13 Apr 2018

He's no John McEnroe -- not in looks or stature…

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Review of Rampage (2018)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 11 Apr 2018

Johnson and George are hands down the year's best screen couple ... Call it an interspecies bromance…

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Review of Final Portrait (2017)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 07 Apr 2018

To say it unfolds at a leisurely pace would be a vast understatement…

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Review of Chappaquiddick (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 07 Apr 2018

What struck me most was how cleverly the movie skewers the devious way politicians think and behave, from the shaky relationship our representatives…

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Review of Isle of Dogs (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 30 Mar 2018

Visually, Anderson's second foray into stop-motion animation is a mind-blowing marvel of wondrous imagination and ingenuity…

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Review of The China Hustle (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 30 Mar 2018

This is one of those documentaries -- like Abacus and Enron -- that make you boiling mad at greedy bankers, ineffectual politicians and a financial…

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Review of Flower (2017)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 Mar 2018

Winkler turns credulity to the wind with a succession of increasingly ridiculous plot twists that can only occur in the mind of a lazy scriptwriter…

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Review of The Leisure Seeker (2018)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 18 Mar 2018

Italian director Paolo Virzi has much to say about old age. But just what that message might be is more opaque than Grandma's support hose…

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