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The Addams Family (2019) Review: Not Creepy, Not Kooky, Not Mysterious Nor Spooky

Deirdre Crimmins — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:00:11 +0000

With well-established source material and a pedigreed duo of directors, The Addams Family should have been an easy win. Somehow, it never comes together into a coherent family film. Directors Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon are the pair behind the hilarious and astonishingly socially progressive Sausage Party. They might not seem like a natural choice...

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The Goldfinch Review: Clipped Wings

Jason Gorber — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:00:47 +0000

Director John Crowley’s last film was the highly-praised Brooklyn. His follow-up, The Goldfinch, is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2014 novel by Donna Tartt. It’s an ambitious, sprawling story about a famous Dutch painting, a young survivor of a terrorist bombing, and his struggles following the incident as he grows to adulthood. British playwright Peter...

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Now Streaming: ‘Stranger Things 2’

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:00:03 +0000

Sequels are such dangerous things, especially when you’re trying to follow up on something that was more or less a cultural event. One runs the risk of being too different or, even worse, being more of the same. So there’s a lot riding on ‘Stranger Things 2’, aptly titled as these seasons have felt more...

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