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Tropic Sprockets: Touch
Baltasar Kormákur's “Touch” has a fair amount of understatement, and this adds to its honesty and gives the story a tangible sense of haunt, which all great love stories possess.
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Front Row at the Movies: Touch
As we get older, we often think back over our lives, wondering how things might have gone differently. Sometimes we think of business decisions that went awry. Or friends who drifted away. Or lost loves. In “Touch,” a film by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, an elderly man begins to think about his past, wondering “what might have been.”
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Tropic Sprockets: Modernism Inc.: The Eliot Noyes Design Story
Jason Cohn delivers a thorough portrait of designer Eliot Noyes. The documentary is engaging, informative, and detailed with a visual style of Mondrian.
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Tropic Sprockets: Bullitt
Like “Serpico” and “The French Connection,” this film distilled the soiled and gritty side of police life, where all is harsh and confining, with fluorescent light, anemic and strange.
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Front Row at the Movies: Bullitt
The first 65 minutes 30 seconds of the film amount to little more than a protracted setup for The Chase – a game of cat-and-mouse that spans 10 full minutes of screen time.
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Front Row at the Movies: The Fabulous Four
“Bridesmaids,” it’s not. But you’ll still get some good guffaws out of “The Fabulous Four,” a new comedy about friends traveling to Key West to be bridesmaids for their long-time friend’s wedding.
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Tropic Sprockets: Revival69: The Concert that Rocked The World
Ron Chapman’s lively documentary “Revival69: The Concert that Rocked the World” is vibrant, colorful, and chock full of rock history anecdotes.
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Tropic Sprockets: Twisters
"Twisters" is big on action and hair-raising stunts but does not quite have the sense of surprise like the original. Nevertheless, it has a good cast, and actor Glen Powell does have matinee charisma and holds the film together.
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Front Row at the Movies: Twisters
Storm chaser Kate Cooper (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her friend Javi (Anthony Ramos) set out to test a revolutionary new tornado tracking system on the plains of Oklahoma. There, they bump heads with Tyler Owens (Glen Powell), a social media star known as “The “Tornado Wrangler.” But this competition has to be set aside when they find themselves caught in the path of multiple tornados.
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Tropic Sprockets: Kinds of Kindness
Surrealist maestro Yorgos Lanthimos can be depended on for daring themes and images. Like Jean-Luc Godard, he should be well applauded in this age of franchises and Blockbuster banquets, but his stories are not easy on the eyes.
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