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Review: Nyad
By Christian DiMartino In some cases, star-power alone can make a movie worth watching. Nyad, directed by documentarians Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (the pretty stellar Free Solo and The Rescue), does undeniably fall into the trappings of your standard biopic. Yet it’s kept afloat by the goodwill of the great performances from Annette…
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Review: Snowden
By Christian DiMartino I remember it like it was yesterday. I walk in the house, sit down on the couch, grab the laptop (which I’m currently writing on), and surely enough, placed on the WebCam was a piece of duct tape. Puzzled, I decided to ask my folks what the deal was. As it turns…
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Review: She’s Funny That Way
1/2 By Christian DiMartino Peter Bogdanovich’s She’s Funny That Way feels like a Woody Allen effort, and for that reason alone, I found it somewhat enjoyable. It would be a somewhat lesser Allen effort, but still an entertaining one. The material is hit-or-miss, but yet the situations that these characters find themselves in end up funnier…