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Silent Night movie review & film summary (2023)

Nobody speaks a full word of written dialogue. Characters grunt when they crash against a wall, get punched in the gut, or are struck by a

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Orlando, My Political Biography movie review (2023)

The film takes an “I am Spartacus” approach to the text, casting an assortment of trans and nonbinary performers as a gallery of incarnations

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Mami Wata movie review & film summary (2023)

“Mami Wata” is populated by men and women who dress and act as if they’re still in a previous century, resisting modernity. The

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The Storms of Jeremy Thomas movie review (2023)

Cousins’ narration gets a bit MFA fiction workshop at certain points, but that’s a feature of his work, not a bug (in another life, he

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Superpower movie review & film summary (2023)

That last film is by far the most interesting of the ones that Penn gives us in this grab-bag of a movie. And

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The Hill movie review & film summary (2023)

Directed by Jeff Celentano from a script by the late Scott Marshall Smith (“Men of Honor”) and Angelo Pizzo (who wrote the classics “Rudy” and “Hoosiers“), “The

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The Out-Laws movie review & film summary (2023)

Devine’s character, Owen Browning, is a bank manager, despite being so cloddish and lacking in judgment or impulse control that it’s hard to imagine

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The Flash movie review & film summary (2023)

Unfortunately, “The Flash” also has a countervailing tendency that undermines its best self. Even as it cleverly translates Shelley’s worries into contemporary comic book terms,

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One Ranger movie review & film summary (2023)

The writer and director, former stuntman Jesse V. Johnson (“Avengement”), throws audiences into the middle of action. There’s a bank robbery out in

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Peter Pan & Wendy movie review (2023)

The story begins with Wendy Darling (Ever Anderson) leading her younger brother John (Joshua Pickering) and kid brother Michael (Jacobi June) in a

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