Hard Truths” Marianne Jean-Baptiste once earned an Academy Award nomination for her role in “Secrets and Lies.” Her performance in that film was exceptional, and now she, as Pansy, gives an inspirational performance of a woman beaten down by life and what it hasn’t offered. ​
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“September 5” is solid storytelling. The tempo. The structure. The acting. All impeccable. It tells us about what happened during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich when a terrorist organization did the worst thing imaginable.
One of the things you’ve heard most about “The Brutalist” is that it’s three hours and thirty-five minutes long. Don’t let that turn you off because not only will you not feel that time go by as you watch, but you’ll want more when it’s over. ​
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If you like Pedro Almodóvar movies, such as, “Volver” and “Parallel Mothers,” this film “The Room Next Door,” a Spanish drama, written and directed by Almodóvar, is his first English-language film which is based on the novel by Sigrid Nunez, titled, “What Are You Going Through?” The book was about suicide and was published during Covid. Nunez included humor in her writing. That is certainly missing in the film. It is very heavy and reasonably dark.
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Gerard Butler (Plane, Has Fallen series) and O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Out of Compton, Godzilla: King of the Monsters) return in the sequel to 2018’s action-heist hit Den of Thieves. Read more
