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Front Row at the Movies: Companion
Think: “Ex Machina” meets “Lars and the Real Girl” meets “M3GAN.” I liked it. But then again, I’m fond of movies that are unhinged and unpredictable.
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Tropic Sprockets: September 5
“September 5” focuses on the events of 1972 during the Munich Olympics. Centralized in the control room of an ABC sports unit, the film is a heart stopping minute by minute account of anxiety during a real time terrorist attack.
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Front Row at the Movies: David Tennant as Macbeth
The subject matter offers – as the title suggests – Hard Truths. But the writing and acting makes it worthwhile. As a quote from the film tells us: “"I don't understand you, but I love you." You may feel the same way about this film.
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Tropic Sprockets: Nickel Boys
From RaMell Ross, “Nickel Boys” is an adaptation of the novel by Colson Whitehead. It is impactful, eccentric, and startling. Though it is challenging and overly long in length, the film is unsettling, engrossing and resists easy classification.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Room Next Door
Famed auteur Pedro Almodóvar directs his first feature film in English, “The Room Next Door." In some ways it is a departure from the director, who is fond of highlighting eccentric characters in bizarre situations. However, for what it lacks in high energy voltage, it gains in intimacy and pensive reflection with a singularity and focus that is almost Zen.
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Front Row at the Movies: Hard Truths
The subject matter offers – as the title suggests – Hard Truths. But the writing and acting makes it worthwhile. As a quote from the film tells us: “"I don't understand you, but I love you." You may feel the same way about this film.
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Tropic Sprockets: Hard Truths
From Mike Leigh, a master of detail, intimate expression and human emotion, “Hard Truths” is another minute character study full of sorrowful power and hidden ghosts.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Last Showgirl
Pamela Anderson's haunt and gravity carry Gia Coppola's authentic portrait of Las Vegas life with existential angst, “The Last Showgirl.”
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Front Row at the Movies: Better Man
Although you may recognize Robbie Williams from such hits as “Millennium” and “She’s the One,” you might not know that in 2004 he was voted the Greatest Artist of the 1990s. While telling Williams’s life story, “Better Man” portrays him as a CG-animated anthropomorphic chimpanzee—an expression of his inner feeling of being “less evolved than other people.”
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Tropic Sprockets: The World According to Garp
Strange, immersive, and concussive, one is never sure how this film will land. The poignance is laced with menace and danger. Spielbergian nostalgia turns into the darkness of Highsmith, but the source material is absolutely John Irving from his acclaimed novel.
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