Movie Reviews

Movie Review: ‘Irresistible’

The movie's lampooning of both the cynicism underlying our current electoral system and the cultural divide separating the coasts from the heartland will likely amuse most grown-ups.
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Movie Review: ‘Artemis Fowl’

In the hands of such great artists as British novelist J.R.R. Tolkien or Irish poet W.B. Yeats, the elements of medieval lore have been deployed to great effect, but this is not the case with "Artemis Fowl"
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Just what is the truth about Norma McCorvey?

While McCorvey's real outlook and motivation remain elusive, two things can be said with certainty: first, that she was a complicated person and second, that everyone interviewed for filmmaker Nick Sweeney's profile of McCorvey has an agenda of his or her own.
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Movie Review: ‘The Hunt’

The overall effect of "The Hunt" winds up being more sadistic than satiric.
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Movie Review: ‘I Am Patrick’

The reasons the church continues to honor the Apostle of Ireland more than 1,500 years after his death shine forth in the film "I Am Patrick" (CBN), a docudrama screening in theaters for two nights only, March 17 -- St. Patrick's Day -- and March 18.
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Movie Review: ‘Emma’

"Emma" is a delightful screen version of Jane Austen's classic novel, lovely to look at and abounding in gentle humor.
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Movie Review: ‘Burden’

The rough atmosphere of writer-director Andrew Heckler's drama "Burden" makes it anything but a family film.
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Movie Review: ‘The Call of the Wild’

"The Call of the Wild," the seventh film adaptation of Jack London's 1903 novel, is a computer-generated marvel.
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Movie Review: ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’

Adults will find that there's something oddly mechanical and even maladroit about "Sonic the Hedgehog."
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Movie Review: ‘Les Miserables’

"Les Miserables" (Amazon) has no connection to Victor Hugo's classic novel of the same name other than its setting -- the rundown Paris suburb of Montfermeil, where the poor still struggle and continue to distrust authority figures.
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Movie Review: ‘Gretel and Hansel’

The film covers the familiar outlines of the old story, with two children negotiating a dark and very foggy forest as they escape a famine-scarred home life in search of food and security.
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Movie review: ‘The Turning’

While the film provides the occasional jolt, "The Turning" suffers from fatal indecision that leads to a thoroughly incoherent ending.
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