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Neflixable? "Enola Homes 3" Beats a Dead Horse
1+ hour, 15+ min ago (442+ words) The bare minimum you expect from a sleuthing action comedy of the "Anybody Named Holmes" variety is that it hold your interest. Netflix's "Enola Holmes 3" falls short of even that low bar. It's got a wedding and a few kidnappings,…...
Movie Review: Striving and Social Climbing, "Young Washington" takes the Shape of the Man He Became
4+ hour, 32+ min ago (705+ words) Stately, staid and yet somehow still satisfying, "Young Washington" is a (mostly) by-the-book biography of the early life that shaped The Father of Our Country. It's well-cast and handsomely mounted, and only falls into hagiography " rather obviously and clumsily " late…...
Documentary Review: "Chris and Martina: The Final Set" of a Love Match built on Sportsmanship
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (707+ words) The recent news that former tennis champ Chris Evert's cancer has returned for the third time adds more real-life poignance to a lovely new documentary about her and her longtime foe and friend, Martina Navratilova. "Chris & Martina: The Final Set…...
Documentary Review: Intentionally forgotten Lebanon " "Do You Love Me
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (235+ words) In Lebanon, an opening title tells us, "contemporary history is not taught in schools." "Do You Love Me" is history and memory via montage, sn impressionistic cut and paste picture made from thousands of sources " songs, TV shows, home movies,…...
Classic Film Review: Jean-Pierre Melville is one of "Two Men in Manhattan" (1959)
3+ day, 18+ min ago (693+ words) Sometimes, the most accurate mirrors we face are held up to us by others. Classic films can also preserve such snapshots of the past, and one of the most intriguing is Jean-Pierre Melville's "Two Men in Manhattan," a fairly conventional…...
Netflixable? "Little Brother" makes Cena Look Small
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (530+ words) Netflix has made inroads in horror and begun to make a mark in prestige pcitures. But they cornered the market on teen rom-coms a while back. And now, years after signing Adam Sandler, his family and hangers-on, they're going all…...
Movie Review: Too Much Talk, Too Little Action " "Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (446+ words) The storied, mythic and constantly fictionalized life of the martial artist who taught Bruce Lee his moves earns perhaps his dullest film outing in "Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend." It's not really the fault of star Yu-Hang (Dennis) To, who…...
Netflixable? Schnabel's Mad Monomania paints "In the Hand of Dante
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (950+ words) There's a "just go with it" madness that is demanded of anyone who dives into the glorious " some will say wretched " excesses of "In the Hand of Dante." A romantic thriller contrived out of history, great "lost" literature and the…...
Movie Review: "The Death of Robin Hood," Who wants to See That?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (774+ words) Here it is, the latest "Robin Hood" that nobody asked for and perhaps nobody wanted, something that's been the case ever since Russell Crowe rounded up some merry men some sixteen years back. Michael Sarnoski's "The Death of Robin Hood…...
Movie Review: "Toy Story 5" is all Message, Little Fun
1+ week, 6+ day ago (771+ words) My least favorite "Toy Story" movie takes a solid hour to deliver its first laugh and some 70 minutes to truly get underway. "Toy Story 5" tells a tale from three different points of view, with three storylines, and hammers its message…...