For the past year, it’s been tempting to try and parse every movie that’s hit theaters, reading each superhero origin story, goofy comedy, and earnest drama for signs of how it relates to or comments on the age of Trump. And there’s good reason for that — the endless bumbling, corruption, and lies of the […]
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Film Review: “Ricki and the Flash
Rock singer Ricki Rendazzo (Meryl Streep) once dreamed of filling stadiums, but in the years since she first set off on her career, she’s settled for a weekly gig playing for a small but loyal crowd of regulars at a divey bar in Tarzana, California. As “Ricki and the Flash” begins, Ricki receives a call […]
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Film Review: “Into the Woods”
Practically from birth, we’re taught by fairy tales that as long as we’re pure of heart (and determined enough) that there will come a day when all our wishes will come true; everybody gets their happy ending. Though experience tells us that is anything but the case, we like to comfort ourselves with these tales […]
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Film Review: “The Giver”
After a visit to the new Soviet Union in 1919, the great muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens famously remarked, “I have seen the future and it works.” In Hollywood, for many years they have seen the future and … it sucks. Dystopia now replaces any possibility of happiness in the brave new world that we’d like […]
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Film Review: “August: Osage County”
If nothing else, “August: Osage County” validates Tolstoy’s famous dictum about happy versus unhappy families. The Weston family of Osage County, in the dry, dreary prairies of Oklahoma, actually easily surpasses the concept of unhappy, achieving a level of dysfunction, anger, and sheer toxicity rarely shown in motion pictures, or even real life. The movie […]
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The Devil Wears Prada
The Devil Wears Prada(PG-13), directed by David Frankel, is now playing at Culver Ridge 16, Pittsford Cinemas, Henrietta 18, Webster 12, Tinseltown, Greece Ridge 12, and Eastview 13. The elegant boss from Hell A movie about the world of fashion probably must include a defense of its subject against the inherent and inevitable charge of […]
