I remain on the Sergei Polunin beat at RogerEbert.com with my review of “Simple Passion,” in which the bad-boy ballet dancer plays an elusive Russian diplomat having a purely physical affair with a divorced Parisian professor. It’s all very torrid, but his character is intentionally vapid and boring, and the...
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Christy by Request — The Vanishing
It should have been a romantic escape — a chance to get away from the crowds and the heat of summer and ride bicycles through the French countryside. Instead, it ended before it even began, with the wife disappearing and the husband searching frantically for her, a quest that would...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Revenge
Watching a brutal, bloody rape-revenge fantasy may not be your cup of tea. And I get that. But “Revenge” is the film we need right now from a filmmaker we need right now: French writer-director Coralie Fargeat, making her stunning feature debut. She upends your expectations of the genre and...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Mrs. Hyde
A timid high school physics teacher gets zapped by lightning in a freak lab accident. When she comes to, she finds she has acquired strange new abilities and a burst of confidence that allow her to seize control of her life like never before. It’s the stuff of a 1980s high-concept,...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent was an innovator in the world of haute couture. This biopic about him is pretty by-the-numbers. Alonso and I got all gussied up to review....
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — The Family
Alonso, Ben and I liked this mob comedy better than a lot of other critics did. Great cast, dark humor, clever violence....
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