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Film review: ‘King Arthur’

The world doesn’t really need another retelling of Arthurian legend. But if we’ve got no choice in the matter, at least this one offers a scrappy, street-level epic seen through the hyperactive eyes of “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” director Guy Ritchie. At least that’s what I attempted to tell myself before heading into […]

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Film Review: “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”

When filmmaker Guy Ritchie first hit the scene in the late 90’s with his flashy cinematic calling card, “Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels,” he seemed like England’s answer to Quentin Tarantino, though possibly just an amped-up knockoff. (Plus Ritchie presented us with Jason Statham, really a gift that keeps on giving.) But in the […]

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