
Movie Review
Thursdays and alternate Mondays
Movie reviewer Fletcher Powell shares his opinions on Hollywood's best efforts.
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I’ve seen a lot of high-minded movies this year: A Ghost Story, Darren Aronofsky’s mother!... even Blade Runner 2049 dealt in some very lofty themes. So I…
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If you’ve heard of Errol Morris, then you likely know that he’s one of the great documentarians of all time, and one of our greatest living filmmakers…
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I’m not someone who watches bad movies for kicks. I do sort of understand the appeal: There really is a kind of euphoric charge you get from seeing…
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It seems that people are interpreting Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri on three different levels.As a political statement, I’m not sure it works…
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There’s a Mexican cultural belief that says we each die three deaths. The first is our normal death, when our body ceases to function. The second comes…
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I remember when director Noah Baumbach and actor Greta Gerwig made the wonderful movie Frances Ha, and Gerwig had to work hard to remind people that she…
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I don’t know this for sure, but I’m willing to bet that the movie Wonderstruck is based on a book that’s been described as “unfilmable.” I mean, it is…
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I’m not the biggest fan of superhero movies. For the most part they all run together to me, with battles that go on too long and generally have pretty low…
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So here we have: a movie directed by George Clooney, who made the excellent Oscar-nominated Good Night and Good Luck; a movie written by the Coen…
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Writer and director Noah Baumbach has made a career out of portraying self-absorbed characters on screen, characters who are so consumed with their own…