
Movie Review
Thursdays and alternate Mondays
Movie reviewer Fletcher Powell shares his opinions on Hollywood's best efforts.
Latest Episodes
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KMUW movie reviewer Jim Erickson says a new movie is neither scary nor very good. It's hard to believe that only 16 years ago, M. Night Shyamalan was…
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It may be best to just take Mistress America as a happy little character comedy about a group of old acquaintances who learn some things about themselves…
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I'm puzzled as to why I found We Are Your Friends so entertaining.Maybe the music was getting to me, subconsciously. All I can say is that the same…
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American Ultra has a promising premise, but does so little with it that all we eventually get is a succession of the kind of bang-bang action that all but…
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Ricki and the Flash is a peculiar movie in that it has Meryl Streep singing and banging away on a guitar as a mother who pretty much deserted her husband…
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The Gift is a totally satisfying movie that shifts between psychological crime thriller and psychological horror thriller, without losing suspense and…
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Trainwreck starts out with a lengthy scene of two people having sex, the man with deep emotion and the woman with such concern over technique that her…
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Paper Towns tells the story of a half dozen high school seniors who go on an automobile trip that teaches them that it's the trip that is valuable, not…
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Mr. Holmes purports to be about Sherlock Holmes, but it presents us with a Sherlock Holmes in extreme old age, without a 221B Baker Street or a Dr.…
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Self/less starts out with a very promising thesis, when Ben Kingsley, a trillionaire who feels life slipping away from him, buys a new body into which his…