The Las Vegas-based polling firm CinemaScore, since 1978, has been conducting weekly surveys of moviegoers, asking them to assign a letter grade based on their reaction to a new release they’ve just seen. The system gives some insight into the average person’s movie opinions and, for the studios, helps gauge how successful their films might […]
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Film review: “Passengers”
A new year may have already started, but the films of 2016 will keep trickling into Rochester theaters throughout the next month. But while they make their way here, I’m still catching up on the massive number of new movies released over Christmas week (eight in total), including “Passengers,” from director Morten Tyldum (“The Imitation […]
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Film review: “Joy”
Having already ushered her to one Oscar win and another nomination, director David O. Russell reteams with his muse, Jennifer Lawrence, for the rambunctious, but wildly uneven “Joy.” A modern melodrama, “Joy” is inspired by the life of harried homemaker turned entrepreneur Joy Mangano, the inventor of the Miracle Mop. A creative, endlessly imaginative young […]
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Film review: ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2’
The series comes to a satisfying conclusion, even if it never quite lives up to the previous installments.
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Film Review: “Serena”
Now that we’re firmly entrenched in the 24-7 information age, ubiquity can often be a byproduct of a successful acting career. Keeping that gravy train on track requires work, and since her Oscar-nominated breakthrough in 2010’s “Winter’s Bone,” Jennifer Lawrence has appeared in about a dozen films. Add to that the perpetual self-promotion of talk […]
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Film Review: “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1”
The first and second parts of the “Hunger Games” franchise earned big profits and critical praise; they also inspired a good deal of trendy talk about empowering young women in action pictures, which seems to mean that the heroine wields a wicked bow and can fight and kill with the best of them. The new, […]
