The Cinema Theater will host a one night only showing of indie stoner comedy “Wally Got Wasted” on Saturday night. A madcap comedy in the “one crazy night” genre, “Wally Got Wasted” follows three friends who inadvertently kill a bad guy while out for a raucous night on the town. After somehow managing to screw […]
Adam Lubitow
Film critic for CITY Newspaper, writer, iced coffee addict, and dinosaur enthusiast.
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Film preview: ‘The Farewell’
Exploring the complexities of cultural identity, “The Farewell” circulates with grief, love, regret, and guilt. It tells a warm, heartfelt, and often funny story about the bonds of family and the ways we work to stretch them as far as we can; across continents if we have to.
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Film: reflecting on Rutger Hauer’s work
Dutch actor Rutger Hauer passed away in his Netherlands home on July 19 at the age of 75. With a prolific and versatile career, Hauer was an actor with the unique ability to make a movie better simply by being in it. He mastered the art of delivering legitimately great performances in even the schlockiest of films.
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Film review: ‘Crawl’
It’s a film with little on its mind besides pure excitement, and you could probably read some minor commentary about the climate and global warming’s effect on severe weather events that force animals to find new hunting grounds. But that’s not really the focus here.
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Film review: ‘Wild Rose’
Telling the story of a Scotland-based singer who dreams of making it as a Nashville country music star, “Wild Rose” is touching, toe-tapping musical dramedy anchored by a dynamite performance from star Jessie Buckley.
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Film preview: ‘The Art of Self-Defense’
Director Riley Stearns’ strange and seething satire is a pitch black comedy for the modern era, coming at a time when our culture continues a long overdue conversation about identity, masculinity, and violence.
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Film review: ‘Midsommar’
Human emotions are the real horror in Ari Aster’s films. With his ambitious sophomore film “Midsommar,” he uses the context of horror to explore grief, depression, and the detrimental effect of toxic relationships. And for good measure, Swedish pagan solstice rituals.
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Preview: Rochester Jewish Film Festival
The eight-day festival will run from Sunday, July 7 through Monday, July 14 showcasing a collection of 26 films that includes entries from 18 countries, including 13 feature-length narratives, 12 feature-length documentaries, and one special event screening of the first two episodes of popular new Israeli television series “The Conductor.”
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Film review: ‘Echo in the Canyon’
There’s enough potential material here to fill an entire miniseries, but crammed into a barely 90-minute runtime, it comes in bits and pieces and feels wildly incomplete. It doesn’t help that large chunks are taken up by covers performed by Jakob Dylan and some of his 90’s-era contemporaries.
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Film review: ‘Toy Story 4’
That this latest installment is the funniest and most idiosyncratic of the series so far shows that it’s entirely possible there’s enough juice left in these stories to take Woody, Buzz, and the gang to infinity and beyond, free to continue giving generations of viewers neuroses about never getting rid of our old toys.
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All the ‘Child’s Play’ movies, ranked
Who’d have thought that a horror series about a wise-cracking killer doll would have been able to sustain itself for three decades? In time for the release of a new reimagining of “Child’s Play” in theaters, CITY takes a look back at how each of the movies in the series stack up.
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Film review: ‘Men in Black: International’
Reuniting “Thor: Ragnarok” co-stars Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth should have been a home run, but “Men in Black: International” whiffs it by refusing to take any chances whatsoever. Gone is the imagination and wit that made the original such a success; in its place is a lifeless and unforgivably generic piece of studio content.
