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Review: Helen Mirren Stars as a Prime Minister at a Crossroads in Thrilling Wartime Drama Golda

Rather than attempt a full-scale biopic of one-time Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, writer Nicholas Martin and director Guy Nattiv (Skin, Magic Men) zero in on the incredibly tense 19 […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • August 25, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Bursting with Color, Wit and Just a Bit Too Much Plot, Filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Gives the Doll Depth

    Filmmaker Greta Gerwig is three for three. Her first film as director, Lady Bird, was a funny-because-it’s-true romp through teenage-dom, the epitome of an indie darling when it was released […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • July 18, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: For Its Tenth Film, the Fast & Furious Franchise Mostly Retreads Old Vendettas (and Car Chases)

    The Fast & Furious movies have now entered their third decade as a franchise, and we still have one or two of these monsters left (depending on who you listen […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 19, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Shazam! Fury of the Gods Brings Back a Teenage Super-Hero with an Overly Complicated Plot

    If you needed me to give you an accurate, detailed summary of the plot for the Shazam! sequel, Fury of the Gods, well I’d probably die of old age and […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 16, 2023
    • Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Duke Chronicles the True, Very British Story of Art Thievery as Civil Protest

    Jim Broadbent in The Duke

    Back in the 1990s, I had a soft spot for British films in which the townspeople all rallied around some cause and simply got things done though sheer will power […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 29, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: F9 is More Furious than Fast, an Overstuffed Entry in an Overlong Franchise

    F9

    Is it my imagination, or do most of the Fast & Furious movies spend about a third of their running times explaining or rewriting the events of previous installments? I […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 23, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: On Screen Together for the First Time, The Good Liar Makes Poor Use of Mirren, McKellen

    The Good Liar

    The combination of Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen (acting for the first time together in the film) seems like a fool-proof combination, especially in the hands of director Bill Condon […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 15, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Hobbs & Shaw Have Some Growing Up To Do in Fast & Furious Spin-Off

    Hobbs & Shaw

    It’s no secret that the Fast & Furious films (there have been eight up to this point) get bigger and dumber as the numbers get higher. Now apparently, there are […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 31, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: There’s Little Holiday Joy—And Even Less Sense—in Disney’s The Nutcracker and The Four Realms

    The Nutcracker

    It took two people to direct this movie. And not two unknown directors who might have been easily manipulated by the studio, but two talented, established filmmakers—very different filmmakers who […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 1, 2018
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Collateral Beauty, Gross and Ill Conceived

    Sometimes a movie is bad just because it’s bad, and sometimes it’s bad because it wants so passionately to be good that it chokes on its noble intentions. The last […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 16, 2016
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