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Movie Review
Thursdays and alternate Mondays

Movie reviewer Fletcher Powell shares his opinions on Hollywood's best efforts.

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  • When the credits finished rolling on Vox Lux, the first thing I said was this: Vox Lux is a lot of movie. It describes itself as “a 21st century…
  • A couple of weeks ago, as year-end best-of lists started coming out, I noticed a movie that wasn’t familiar, and that was showing up on so many lists that…
  • Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is made up of six vignettes telling tales from the Old West. It opens in the iconic Monument Valley,…
  • In 2016, Garrard Conley published his memoir, Boy Erased. It told his story of being forced into gay conversion therapy by his mother and Baptist pastor…
  • Heist movies have generally fallen into two categories—the Ocean’s Eleven variety, where nearly everything, from planning to execution, is a crackling…
  • In the early 1990s, Lee Israel did something many of us probably wish we could do—she figured out how to be someone else. Or, I should say, she figured…
  • If you’ve ever watched Dario Argento’s 1977 horror film Suspiria and thought to yourself, “what this needs is to be an hour longer, stripped entirely of…
  • In 1992, a group of young filmmakers in Singapore, most in their teens, shot a feature-length movie that some critics argue would have completely changed…
  • This year marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Dawn of the Dead, George Romero's seminal zombie movie that's regarded as one of the best and most…
  • There are movie stars, and there are movie stars.It doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense that Robert Redford would be the title character in a movie called…