Tag: Review
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You – 608
Jeremy Allen White tries to step into the shoes of The Boss in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. Rose Byrne gives a brilliant and stress inducing performance in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere From 20th Century Studios, “Deliver Me from Nowhere” chronicles the…
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Good Fortune – 606
Keanu Reeves gives a divine performance in the new comedy Good Fortune, but is the film as a whole a slam dunk? Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Good Fortune In Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut, GOOD FORTUNE, a well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel (Keanu Reeves) observes a struggling gig worker, Arj (Aziz Ansari), who is…
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TRON: Ares, Roofman, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Boots – 604
TRON: Ares is gobbledygook that fails to add anything meaningful to the franchise (except maybe a great soundtrack). Roofman is a criminally fun tie at the movies (but more fluff than anything else). Kiss of the Spider Woman gets bogged down in its own attempted grandeur. Boots is a brilliant balance of themes and tones.…
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The Smashing Machine, The Lost Bus – 602
The Smashing Machine is a slightly disjointed but overall serviceable sports biopic. The Lost Bus succeeds at the macro storytelling but goes astray in the purported main conceit. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about The Smashing Machine The story of legendary mixed martial arts & UFC fighter Mark Kerr. More about The Lost Bus From…
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One Battle After Another, All of You, Eleanor the Great – 599
Paul Thomas Anderson is in fighting form with One Battle After Another. Brett Goldstein brings the romance to All of You. Eleanor the Great is anything but impressive. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about One Battle After Another Washed-up revolutionary Bob (DiCaprio) exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant…
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HIM, Gen V Season 2, Swiped, Rebel Royals – 597
Unfortunately HIM has a great premise but spirals out in the end. Gen V does not suffer from a sophomore slump. We’re swiping left on the Bumble / Tinder cofounder biopic Swiped. Rebel Royals: An Unlikely Love Story is borderline propaganda for the subjects but a fascinating watch. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about HIM…
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TIFF 2025
It was our pleasure to attend TIFF 2025 for the 50th iteration of the festival. We saw 20 films at the Toronto International Film Festival (and again a special thanks to the TIFF and Rotten Tomatoes Grant Program for helping us participate). We weren’t able to screen everything there, but here’s a glimpse at what…
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The Long Walk, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Spinal Tap 2 – 596
Stephen King’s The Long Walk proves as timely a film adaptation as there could be. Also two films made as (perhaps unnecessary) fan service with Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale and Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues Listen on Apple Podcasts More about The Long Walk From the highly anticipated adaptation of master storyteller Stephen…
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Twinless, The Threesome, The Paper – 595
We’re seeing double with Twinless and triple with The Threesome. Can The Paper cement itself as more than just a spinoff of The Office? Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Twinless In Twinless, two young men meet in a twin support group and form an unlikely friendship. Roman (Dylan O’Brien) and Dennis (James Sweeney) both search for solace…
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The Roses, The Thursday Murder Club – 594
A pair of adaptations is up for review this week, both with all star casts: The Roses and The Thursday Murder Club. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about The Roses Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed…