Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - As the Season Finale Looms, It's Time For Some Big Love
ReviewJim SlotekMonarch: Legacy of Monsters, Apple TV+, M.U.T.Os (Massive Unknown Terrestrial Organisms), Godzilla, Wyatt Russell, Kurt Russell, Fathers and sons playing the same character, Mari Yamamoto, Anders Holm, Ren Watabe, Japanese Kaiju
Night Swim: Something Wicked This Way Swims… and Quickly Sinks
ReviewJim SlotekNight Swim, Thriller, Bryce McGuire, Jason Blum, James Wan, Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amélie Hoeferie, Gavin Warren, Ben Sinclair, Nancy Lenehan
Seven Winters in Tehran: Chilling Doc Exposes Horrors of Life for Women in Iran
Year In Review: 2023’s Best, Worst, and Weirdest Movies
By Original-Cin Staff
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ReviewJim SlotekYear in review, 2023, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, Quiz Lady, The Holdovers, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, Retrograde, Shortcomings, You Hurt My Feelings, Afire, No One Will Save You, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Chuck Chuck Baby, Shame on Dry Land, Cocaine Bear, La Chimera, Dream Scenario, John Wick: Chapter 4, Who’s Yer Father?, The Royal Hotel, Haunted Mansion, Elemental, The Teacher's Lounge, Beau is Afraid, Flora and Son, The Exorcist: Believer, Memory, The Zone of Interest, The Eternal Memory, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, Anatomy of a Fall, Perfect Days, Showing Up, Bottoms, Going In, The Delinquents, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, The Marvels, Guardians of the Galaxy
The Color Purple: Good, but Not Better Than the Book
ReviewJim SlotekThe Color Purple, Blitz Bazawule, Marcus Gardley, Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks, Taraji P. Henson, Alan Grier, Colman Domingo, Adaptation, Based on a Broadway musical, African-American actors
Ferrari: A Disturbing Crash-For-The-Ages Aside, Michael Mann's Biopic Tells a Solid Story of a Driven Man
By Chris Knight
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The Boys in the Boat: First We Take Poughkeepsie, Then We Take Berlin
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekUnderdog sports movies, Movies directed by George Clooney, The Boys in the Boat, Period pieces, 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, Joe Rantz, Callum Turner, University of Washington rowing team, Joel Edgerton, Author Daniel James Brown
What If...? S2: Stan Lee’s Legacy of Dreams and Visions Realized for a Second Time
ReviewJim SlotekWhat If...?, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Animation, Bryan Andrews, Hayley Atwell, Chris Hemsworth, Lady Bell, Karen Gillen, Jeffrey Wright, Jon Favreau, Kurt Russell, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Douglas, Disney+, Season 2
The Zone of Interest: Jonathan Glazer’s Devastating Holocaust Tale Too Vital to Miss
By Karen Gordon
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Aquaman and the Schlock Kingdom
ReviewJim SlotekAquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Jokey superhero movies, Warner Brothers/ DC Comics, Predictable superhero plots, Jason Momoa, James Wan, Black Manta, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Martin Short, Amber Heard
Going In: Sharp New Crime Dramedy Plays Like an 1980s Classic Unearthed
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekGoing In, Evan Rissi, Ira Goldman, Victor D.S. Man, Canadian feature debut, Toronto, 1980s, Crime, Drama, Comedy
Anselm: Hope Remains for 3D as an Art Form, Especially When the Subject is Art
By Chris Knight
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All of Us Strangers: The Past is Present in a Brilliant Allegorical Tale of Belatedly Faced Grief
By Karen Gordon
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American Fiction: Jeffrey Wright Shines In Publishing World Satire
ReviewJim SlotekAmerican Fiction, TIFF 23, Cord Jefferson, Adaptation, Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K Brown, Leslie Uggams, Erika Alexander, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz
A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened (and Became an Instant Anti-Classic)
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekA Disturbance in the Force, A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened, The Star Wars Holiday Special, Jeremy Coon, Steve Kozak, Mark Hamill, Kevin Smith, Donny Osmond, Documentary, Weird Al Yankovic, Patton Oswalt
The Iron Claw: Wrestling May Be 'Fake,' But This Emotionally Powerful Film Isn't
ReviewJim SlotekWrestling movies, The Von Erich brothers, The Iron Claw, Zac Efron, Kevin Von Erich, Writer/director Sean Durkin, Jeremy Allen White, Ric “Nature Boy” Flair, Maura Tierney, Lily James
Rebel Moon: Part 1 - A Child of Fire Sharply Mimics Star Wars… If Star Wars Was Lame
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekRebel Moon: Part 1 - A Child of Fire, Zack Snyder, Sofia Boutella, Charlie Hunnam, Netflix, Ed Skrein, Sci fi, Space drama, space opera, Franchise
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Nostalgia Propels Ace New Adaptation of Beloved Underdog Tale
ReviewJim SlotekPercy Jackson and the Olympians, Adaptation, Rick Riordan, Walter Scobell, Leah Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Charles Bushnell, Adam Copeland, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Disney+, Fantasy, Family film, young adult
Wonka: A Miserable Concoction More Bitter Than Sweet
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekWonka, Timothée Chalamet, Gene Wilder, Prrequels of children's classics, Paul King of Paddington 2 fame, Roald Dahl, Tom Davis, Olivia Colman, Calah Lane, Rowan Atkinson, Keegan-Michael Key
Poor Things: Darkly Comic, Disturbing Satire Like Nothing Else You've Seen This Year
By Karen Gordon
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