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Review: The Son
By Christian DiMartino Sheesh. Florian Zeller’s The Father was not only the best movie of 2020, but it’s among my favorites of the decade so far. The film, an upsetting and dizzying, yet moving depiction of dementia, earned Anthony Hopkins an Oscar, as well as Zeller and his co-writer Christopher Hampton for Adapted Screenplay. Zeller…
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Review: Jurassic World Dominion
Remember Steven Spielberg’s groundbreaking classic Jurassic Park? Of course you do, and because the nostalgia for it, nearly 30 years later we find ourselves face-to-face with the SIXTH film in the series. The first film is excellent, but what followed was tricky. It’s been years since revisiting the sequels, but there are pleasures in Spielberg’s…
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First Time Watch: Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
By Christian DiMartino Warning: do not read unless you’ve seen all of Twin Peaks. As I sit here typing, a few weeks has passed since finishing Twin Peaks: The Return, the Showtime limited series directed by the masterful David Lynch, released back in 2017. The date is October 18th. For reasons that are beyond explanation,…
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Great Movies: Blue Velvet
By Christian DiMartino David Lynch is a filmmaker unlike most. I have been a devotee for many years, and when we lost him in 2006, it was a great loss to the filmmaking world. Oh yeah, he isn’t dead- he’s alive and well actually, and just received an honorary Oscar this year- but he retired…
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“Cold Pursuit” Review: A Cool Breeze of an action thriller
1/2 By Christian DiMartino I’m a few days late in reviewing Cold Pursuit, which is a bummer, because perhaps my rave review might have saved it from box-office failure. I’m sure the film failed for a few reasons, and maybe one of them is that people have this idea in their head that once they’ve seen…
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Review: 99 Homes
By Christian DiMartino Have you ever seen the show Operation Repo? No? Good. Don’t. Operation Repo revolves around these fat ugly apes who tow cars, and every single time they do it, the victims flail their arms and put up a huge fuss. When you watch it, you get the vibe that these people are not…
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Great Movies: The Master
By Christian DiMartino Every so often, a film comes around that divides people to the point where people just don’t quite know what to make of it (see: 2001: A Space Odyssey, and… okay, I know there is more than that). Paul Thomas Anderson has usually been known to make films that divide people. His masterpiece, Magnolia,…
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