
Movie Review
Thursdays and alternate Mondays
Movie reviewer Fletcher Powell shares his opinions on Hollywood's best efforts.
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Ten years after the action of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, we have Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Surely, the dawn should precede the rise of…
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Melissa McCarthy has many reasons to be happy with her new movie Tammy.She produced, co-wrote and stars, and her husband co-wrote, directed and takes an…
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Like this year's Heaven Is For Real, the newly released Alone Yet Not Alone is a supposedly religious movie that is almost without religion.The one-sheet…
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Both The Rover and The Signal are sort of road movies, though The Signal eventually turns into a sort of science fiction movie, and both of them end with…
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How To Train Your Dragon 2 is a typically enjoyable, superior animation with most of the usual pluses of the form and only a few typical minuses. It's…
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Belle is a very compact and complicated movie, and if your hearing is as bad as mine, you will want to ask the ticket booth for a free set of headphones…
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A Million Ways To Die In The West is said to be both hilariously funny and in horrible taste and it is both.What is most surprising is that it is also,…
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The Immigrant is a consistently interesting, but rather forlorn movie about Marion Cotillard’s troubles getting her tubercular sister past Ellis Island…
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Million Dollar Arm is an entertaining trifle full of material that should have added up to a lot more.John Hamm goes to India to find recruits for his…
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Fading Gigolo is a four-star movie, or almost, and a good deal different from what you might expect.For one thing, Fading Gigolo is written and directed…