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A Movie Review of Molly’s Game by Mark Tapio Kines

A Movie Review of Molly’s Game by Mark Tapio Kines

A Movie Review of Molly’s Game by Mark Tapio Kines

It almost seems wrong to watch Searching on the big screen, since the entire film takes place on a computer desktop, in the form of FaceTime windows, YouTube...

The success of Crazy Rich Asians reminds me of an old satirical graphic posted in The Onion back in 1999: When listing popular baby names of the time, The...

Incredibly, this is the first Spike Lee film I’ve ever reviewed on this site, after 19 years; I believe 1995’s Clockers was the last Lee...

The first Ant-Man installment was a welcome break from the increasingly galactic Marvel films. Breezy and smaller-scale (pun slightly intended), its heist-like...

In my review for 2015’s Sicario, I noted that Emily Blunt’s priggish FBI agent was a weak center in a story about CIA involvement in the drug war,...

Fourteen years after The Incredibles brought computer animated films to a new level, the super-powered Parr family returns – dropping the “The”...

There are almost strictly two kinds of heist movies: those where everything goes right and the thieves walk away with a fortune, and those where everything goes...

How you experience Adrift depends greatly on whether or not you catch the first minute of the film. For the first shot opens on a man’s lifeless body...

It’s one of the great mysteries of 2018: why Solo, a brisk and likable prequel in the Star Wars canon, bombed, comparatively speaking, at the box office....

It’s funny: I remember enjoying the first Deadpool, but I can only really remember its “essence”, if you catch my drift. I recall the raunchy...

After years of planting the seeds of the “Infinity Stones” saga across their many blockbusters, Marvel Studios finally brings the story front and...

The year is 2045, and Columbus, Ohio has inexplicably become the largest city in the US. In its poorest neighborhood lives 18-year-old orphan Wade Watts (Tye...

Although marketed as a taut suspense thriller, Red Sparrow is in reality a disturbing drama about the moral compromises inherent to spycraft and the enduring...