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Movie Reviews

Dan Webster and Nathan Weinbender give short movie reviews.

  • “The Bride!” is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s genre-defying reimagining of “Frankenstein” starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a gutsy attempt, but it doesn’t know what to do with its many weighty themes.
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    It’s been two and a half decades, but the documentary “WTO/99” recalls when Seattle’s streets were wracked with protests, Dan Webster says.
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    "EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert," a documentary playing on regular and IMAX screens around the country, is director Baz Luhrmann’s second film about the King. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a freewheeling testament to Elvis’s enduring power as a performer.
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    Everyone already has a strong opinion about Emerald Fennell’s maximalist retelling of “Wuthering Heights.” Nathan Weinbender is no exception: He says the movie is dramatically murky, emotionally inert and generally unbearable.
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    No matter what your stand is on the war in Gaza, Oscar-nominated “The Voice of Hind Rajab” is likely to break your heart, Dan Webster says.
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    “The Plague” is a study of middle-school angst that relies on its similarity to William Golding’s novel “Lord of the Flies,” Dan Webster says.
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    “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” is as strange and unwieldy as its title. Nathan Weinbender says the new time-travel satire from Gore Verbinski is equal parts inventive and undisciplined.
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    “Send Help” is a bloody survivalist thriller from “Evil Dead” and “Spider-Man” director Sam Raimi. Nathan Weinbender says Rachel McAdams’s central performance is more ferocious than the movie itself.
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    “A Private Life” is a French attempt to capture the same kind of energy that “The Thin Man” did more than 90 years ago, Dan Webster says.
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    “Is This Thing On?” is, uniquely enough, an upbeat yet emotionally truthful movie about divorce, Dan Webster says.