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Film review: ‘Free Fire’

A black market arms deal goes south in spectacularly bloody fashion in the darkly comedic crime-thriller “Free Fire,” the latest from prolific British director Ben Wheatley. The filmmaker’s follow-up to his ambitious but flawed dystopian satire “High-Rise,” “Free Fire,” is an audacious, over-the-top genre exercise that’s somewhat scattershot in execution, but it makes for a […]

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Film Review: “Aloft”

It’s been 13 years since his breakthrough role in “28 Days Later,” and I firmly believe that Irish actor Cillian Murphy is not a big star by his own design. Murphy has the looks and the talent, but he seems to be one of those artists who does slam-dunks like Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy […]

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