Reviews

RogerEbert.com — Monster

A tremendous cast can only do so much with paper-thin characters and a frustrating narrative structure in “Monster.” The long-delayed drama stars Kelvin Harrison Jr. as a young man with a bright future who’s wrongly charged with murder after a Harlem bodega killing. It’s unfortunately all-too relevant but it’s also...

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RogerEbert.com — The Report

“The Report” explores an alarming period in our country’s recent history: the CIA’s suspect detention and interrogation program following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Writer/director Scott Z. Burns’ intention is clear in illuminating the complicated and covert strategies employed, but the story he’s telling isn’t a naturally cinematic one. In...

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What the Flick?! Podcast 11/30/18

I know I say it every week but it really is a jam-packed episode of the What the Flick?! Podcast. Christmas movies, awards contenders, cheesy Netflix flicks — we’ve got ’em all. Alonso, Matt and I review the Scottish rom-com-zom musical “Anna and the Apocalypse”; Andy Serkis’ performance-capture take on “The Jungle...

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Blue Caprice

IFC Films Rated R for disturbing violent content, language and brief drug use. Running time: 93 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four. “Blue Caprice” takes a true story of violence and panic and tells it in the most artful, understated manner imaginable — which makes its events...

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