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The Penguin Lessons (2024) 80% B+ “The extremely charming and well made film stars Steve Coogan, Jonathan Pryce, and an actual penguin. The latter may actually be up for Best Supporting Actor.” – Showbiz 411 Mar 29, 2025 Full Review The Alto Knights (2025) 39% 4/4 “Bottom line: Levinson and co have made what we now call “a real movie,” worth go to see in a movie theater. That’s kind of a relief after going through this Oscar season.” – Showbiz 411 Mar 19, 2025 Full Review The Electric State (2025) 15% 2/4 “When they [the actors] speak you can actually see the gears turning as the actors try to figure what they’re saying.” – Showbiz 411 Mar 15, 2025 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% 4/4 “Chalamet could have come off as an impersonator doing an “SNL” sketch. Instead, he inhabits Dylan self-effacingly. Among rock and roll biopic performances this one is right up there with Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn and Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison.” – Showbiz 411 Dec 11, 2024 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% 4/4 ““Babygirl” could take the route of “Fatal Attraction” as Samuel starts popping up on Romy’s home turf. But Reijn won’t let it go that way. She avoids cliches throughout and always has her eye on a third act. ” – Showbiz 411 Dec 7, 2024 Full Review The Outrun (2024) 82% 3/4 “You can’t take your eyes off of Ronan. She’s a beacon of light in a dark passage. ” – Showbiz 411 Dec 7, 2024 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% “It looks like a masterpiece, it’s long, and rises to enormous heights many times during its showing. You could say it’s like a piece of Brutalist architecture. ” – Showbiz 411 Dec 7, 2024 Full Review Maria (2024) 75% “Jolie gives a great performance in a weird movie, but that’s okay. Her commitment to Callas — who lives on prescription drugs — is noteworthy. ” – Showbiz 411 Dec 7, 2024 Full Review A Real Pain (2024) 96% 4/4 “Every bit of the first pages of Eisenberg’s screenplay set up the cousins quickly. David is serious and committed to a life plan — wife, kid, job. Benjy is a mess. Culkin peels away his layers, he’s revealed as someone who demands attention and gets it.” – Showbiz 411 Oct 29, 2024 Full Review The Last Showgirl (2024) 83% 3/4 “A gem of a film that has come to Toronto with no distributor. It boggles the mind but Anderson can not only act, she evinces an intelligence and sensitivity no one could have bet on. ” – Showbiz 411 Sep 15, 2024 Full Review Unstoppable (2024) 76% 3/4 “No one had JLo on their scorecard for Best Supporting Actress this year. But Lopez gives and stirring and gritty performance as Judy Robles the mother who overcame poverty and domestic abuse to guide the eldest of her five children to victory.” – Showbiz 411 Sep 15, 2024 Full Review The Room Next Door (2024) 81% 4/4 “ “Room” washes over you with a lyrical poetry and a wry sense of humor so that it’s never maudlin. The sound of it is so authentic you’re happy to go on this ride.” – Showbiz 411 Sep 15, 2024 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% 4/4 “This is filmmaking at its best, and will only be more admired and praised as the season proceeds.” – Showbiz 411 Sep 15, 2024 Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 78% 3/4 “This is the only Marvel movie this year, after a string of failures. Enjoy it like a dessert.” – Showbiz 411 Jul 23, 2024 Full Review A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) 86% “Nyongo’o gives a tour de force performance. She reminded me of Cicely Tyson, with that level of intensity and warmth. ” – Showbiz 411 Jun 27, 2024 Full Review The Bikeriders (2023) 80% 2/4 “The movie feels like an uncooked omelet. It's a first act, third act, and nothing in between.” – Showbiz 411 Jun 21, 2024 Full Review The Great Lillian Hall (2024) 87% 4/4 “Apparently, “The Great Lillian Hall” is a last minute entry from HBO/Max in the Limited Series/온라인카지노추천 category. After watching it tonight, I’d say nominations are in order for Jessica Lange — if not a win — as well as Rabe and Bates.” – Showbiz 411 Jun 3, 2024 Full Review Unfrosted (2024) 40% 3/5 “ When the movie’s over, slide it under your bed like a copy of MAD Magazine, and forget about it. One day it might be worth something.” – Showbiz 411 May 3, 2024 Full Review Civil War (2024) 81% 2.5/4 “It’s hard to know who to root for...Why is everyone so angry? How can there be a civil war without any passion or emotion? Garland either knows and doesn’t want to say, or is leaving it up to interpretation. ” – Showbiz 411 Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Road House (2024) 60% “In the old movie, ...Swayze never looked like he worked out. He was a dancer, who maybe practiced Tai Chi. Gyllenhaal is sculpted like he’s been working with a trainer 24/7. ” – Showbiz 411 Mar 21, 2024 Full Review Irena's Vow (2023) 85% 4/4 “Chemistry is everything in movies, and Archambault has made a seriously gripping film that seems almost like a light-hearted fable but never flinches from the horrors of the Holocaus” – Showbiz 411 Feb 22, 2024 Full Review The Boys in the Boat (2023) 57% 3/4 “What makes “The Boys in the Boat” so timely is that the American Olympic team went to Berlin at a time when Hitler was securing his power. The sight of him being defeated by Americans is very satisfying. ” – Showbiz 411 Dec 15, 2023 Full Review Maestro (2023) 78% 4/4 “Cooper’s movie about composer Leonard Bernstein is brutal and brilliant. ” – Showbiz 411 Nov 3, 2023 Full Review Ron Delsener Presents (2023) “You could think of “Ron Delsener Presents” as the flip side of Clive Davis’s “Soundtrack of Our Lives.” The two films together explain quite a bit about the record and music businesses, and how the culture rooted itself from the 60s til now.” – Showbiz 411 Oct 1, 2023 Full Review Nyad (2023) 85% “Please let’s give Annette Bening her Oscar already. She trained for this thing like a professional athlete, is never anything but authentic in her portrayal of Nyad. It’s the performance of a lifetime, after many, many others.” – Showbiz 411 Sep 22, 2023 Full Review
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