If I were in Park City now, I would be paying attention to Dee Rees‘ The Last Thing He Wanted (Netflix, 2.21). I’m presuming it isn’t a homer and probably not a triple, but a ground-rule double would be nice. I’m moderately encouraged by the Joan Didion source novel, the ’80s Contra conspiracy plot weave, the conflicted daughter-father relationship, and the reliable-sounding cast — Anne Hathaway, Willem Dafoe, Ben Affleck, Rosie Perez, etc.
To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride...
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7:45 pm: Okay, the initial light-hearted section (repartee, wedding, hospital, afterlife Joey Pants, healthy diet) was enjoyable, but Jesus, when...
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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