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I can’t break down this film’s plot to the uninitiated without feeling like an idiot. It’s just too convoluted. Thankfully, Marvel...

This has been hailed as a “spiritual sequel” to writer/director Richard Linklater’s 1993 ensemble comedy Dazed and Confused, since Dazed...

I never much cared for Sally Field in her ’70s/’80s heyday. Her acting was too corny for my tastes. But lately, watching her in interviews,...

It’s becoming a habit, but I’d like to start this review with a little anecdote: In 2010, my friend Bill Lebeda at Picture Mill hired me to...

Fans of classic films will instantly recognize the opening scene of Carol: two star-crossed paramours (Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara) sit silently at a...

Easily my favorite movie of 2015, Brooklyn is a good old-fashioned romance told with great warmth and dignity. Saoirse Ronan, seemingly born for the role,...

It’s impossible not to compare Steve Jobs with The Social Network. Both have scripts by Aaron Sorkin. Both are about key figures – and key moments...

This run-of-the-mill gangster saga covering the 1975-1985 heyday of South Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger (Johnny Depp) reminds me very...

Isn’t it nice to see Pixar back on top again?  Inside Out Directed by Pete Docter – 2015 Reviewed by Mark Tapio Kines The stunning critical and...

This is the very definition of “summer counter-programming”: in the middle of 2015’s array of superhero movies, dinosaur blockbusters and the...

This entertaining if disposable follow-up to the 2012 blockbuster is a triumph of, well, let’s call it “story engineering”. Avengers: Age of...

MOVIE REVIEW↓ Critics, fanboys, and audiences alike have been very fickle about Neill Blomkamp – adoring his out-of-nowhere debut District 9, predictably...

I don’t know how to not make this sound creepy, but I have a “director’s crush” on Mae Whitman. Though I don’t exactly find...

People have been hate-watching Jupiter Ascending even before it was released. It’s as if the real anticipation hasn’t been over the film itself,...

Boyhood, as you may have heard, is a special film because it was shot over the course of a 12-year period with the same cast and much of the same crew....

This, the third slice of spooky whimsy from Laika, the Oregon-based stop-motion animation studio who gave us Coraline and ParaNorman, is simultaneously more of...