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‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Is The Most Original, Most Beautiful Musical In Eons

A new Broadway musical about people in love? OK. A new Broadway musical about people in love who are robots? I don’t think so. That’s what I...

13.11.2024 5

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Hugh Grant Goes Full Villain in ‘Heretic’—But Who’s Really Terrified?

In this scathing review, Rex Reed rips into Hugh Grant's misguided attempt at horror, describing the film as a “pointless screamfest” that’s...

12.11.2024 10

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‘Here’ Goes Nowhere: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and the AI Gimmick that Fell Flat

This is nostalgia without the charm.

08.11.2024 4

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‘Juror #2’ Proves Clint Eastwood Is Still a Master of Suspense—and Hollywood

Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 is a masterclass in suspense and moral dilemma, led by a powerhouse performance from Nicholas Hoult. If this is...

04.11.2024 7

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‘Left On Tenth’ Is Funny, Touching, Intelligently Written And Beautifully Acted

If you’re a veteran theatergoer lamenting the absence of good, old-fashioned love stories on Broadway, hope has arrived. Left on Tenth— the new...

24.10.2024 4

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Michael Keaton Shines in ‘Goodrich’—A Heartfelt Comeback for Real Men on Screen

One of the things I like best about watching Michael Keaton on the screen in movies, good or bad (and especially in human and often hilarious comedies...

21.10.2024 8

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Michael Keaton Shines in ‘Goodrich’—A Heartfelt Comeback for Real Men on Screen

One of the things I like best about watching Michael Keaton on the screen in movies, good or bad (and especially in human and often hilarious comedies...

21.10.2024 4

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Kate Winslet’s Transfixing Performance Makes ‘Lee’ Vivid and Unforgettable

Great biopics about great people demand great writing and great centerpiece performances.

30.09.2024 3

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Who Can Blame an Apathetic Halle Berry? ‘Never Let Go’ Is Relentlessly Obtuse.

A state of desperate deprivation that signifies the lack of imagination that plagues most movies today and deprives decent performers from doing their...

30.09.2024 4

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Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone Are a Perfect Pair in ‘The Roommate’

Mia Farrow has not been on a Broadway stage for so long that we forgot how much we missed her. Now she’s back in a new play called The Roommate, ...

13.09.2024 5

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Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone Are a Perfect Pair in ‘The Roommate’

Mia Farrow has not been on a Broadway stage for so long that we forgot how much we missed her. Now she’s back in a new play called The Roommate, ...

13.09.2024 4

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‘Speak No Evil’ Collapses in Carnage

Remakes are odious, but Speak No Evil, while thoroughly unneeded and unasked for, is an Americanized remake of a 2022 thriller from Denmark that...

13.09.2024 5

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‘The Thicket’ Review: Blood, Violence and Little Else in This Bleak Western

The search never ends for ways to make old genres like cowboy movies look fresh and different.  To this purpose, there is a shoot-em-up called The...

07.09.2024 20

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Hemingway’s Worst Novel Gets Worse: ‘Across the River’ Is a Dull, Pointless Misfire

Does anyone know how to make a movie these days that makes sense, with enough plot, narrative coherence and character development to keep a viewer...

03.09.2024 7

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‘The Union’ Doesn’t Make a Lick of Sense, Which Makes Sense

I’m no stranger to lament when it comes to the disintegration of quality in what passes for movies today, but then along comes a bucket of swill...

17.08.2024 8

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‘Close to You’ Review: Elliot Page’s Brave, Bold, Confusing Performance

Nothing ends the way you think it will.

13.08.2024 5

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‘The Fabulous Four’ Is the Latest Humiliation of Seniors Seeking Employment

At a time when mature women are making giant strides toward honor, respect and dignity in every walk of life, progress to gain equal footing is...

29.07.2024 4

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Drop-Dead Glamour-Puss Glen Powell Is a Reason to See ‘Twisters’

Before tornado movies threaten to become a cottage industry, just remember that in spite of both the bad ones and the forthcoming plans for more that...

23.07.2024 3

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‘Fly Me to the Moon’ Is a Sad, Silly, Over-Produced Disappointment

At a sorry time when most movies are about nothing, Fly Me to the Moon, a rom-com set in the chaos and cross purposes of the heroic Apollo 11 moon...

15.07.2024 4

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‘Longlegs’ Is a Stupid, Zero-Star Dumpster Fire

It’s summer, when multiplex marquees are bloated with hunks of junk. One learns, through experience, to expect mediocrity at the movies. What one...

15.07.2024 7

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‘Daddio’ Is Intimate Without Warrant

Daddio is a dreary two-hander with the look, feel and sound of one hand clapping. Conceived and word processed by first-time writer-director Christy...

29.06.2024 8

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Nick Stahl Is a Master of Gore in ‘What You Wish For’

Writer-director Nicholas Tomnay makes maximum use of plot twists that keep an audience on its toes.

27.06.2024 6

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June Squibb Is Endlessly Fascinating in ‘Thelma’

June Squibb, the larky senior citizen who walked away with Nebraska, has deservedly landed her first starring role in the giddy action thriller ...

20.06.2024 4

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Was ‘Poolman’ Written With Crayons? Chris Pine Is a Hunk, Not a Director

Chris Pine trashes his biggest asset, playing most of 'Poolman' in a bikini with a shaggy, white beard that makes him look like a stoner Santa Claus.

10.05.2024 30

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Maïwenn and Johnny Depp Deliver Decadent Sexual Excess In ‘Jeanne du Barry’

When I first heard about Jeanne du Barry, the sumptuous and extravagant French epic about the infamous, powerful but rarely mentioned final...

06.05.2024 10

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‘Nowhere Special’ Is a Thoughtful Tearjerker Without the Sobbing Histrionics

From Northern Ireland, Nowhere Special is the poorly titled but beautifully made and deeply touching film about John, a 34-year-old window washer...

03.05.2024 10

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Jessica Lange Finds New Ways to Melt Hearts in ‘Mother Play’

A few days after Rachel McAdams made a noble but disappointing Broadway debut in Mary Jane, Jessica Lange fared much better in Mother Play, ...

29.04.2024 10

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Rachel McAdams Invigorates ‘Mary Jane’ (When You Can Hear Her)

Broadway is in trouble, but now that it is limping to the close of what I arguably consider one of the worst theater seasons in recent memory, two...

29.04.2024 30

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Who Let John Travolta Agree to the Trash Wallow That Is ‘Cash Out’?

John Travolta doesn’t act much anymore. Call it semi-retirement. On the rare occasion when someone talks him into taking up his old position before...

27.04.2024 40

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This ‘Cabaret’ Is the Worst ‘Cabaret’

After five Broadway incarnations of Cabaret and endless productions worldwide, you’d think, by now, they’d get it right—in their sleep. But...

24.04.2024 8

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‘Civil War’ Is an Amazing Film of Imagination and Cinematic Verve

In the confusion and chaos of today’s polarized political landscape—a time of violence, crime, insurrection and the rape of traditional human...

22.04.2024 10

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‘Irena’s Vow’ Is One of the Most Astounding Holocaust Stories

Filmed on authentic locations in Poland by meticulous Canadian director Louise Archambault, Irena’s Vow is one of the most astounding true...

16.04.2024 10

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‘Arcadian’ Is a Cut Above Most Nicolas Cage Thrillers

In a creepy, dystopian future, 15 years after humanity has been decimated, a man simply named Paul (Nicolas Cage) and his adopted twin sons Thomas and...

12.04.2024 9

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‘Coup de Chance’ Is Woody Allen’s Best Film in Years

Unfairly derailed by obvious, headline-demanding personal problems, Woody Allen’s phenomenal career returns to where it should never have paused in...

05.04.2024 40

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‘Water for Elephants’ Theater Review: “I’ve Never Hated Any Show More”

After suffering through the new Broadway musical The Notebook, I thought I had seen the worst of what the 2024 season would bring. I was wrong. I...

22.03.2024 10

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Theater Review: Broadway’s ‘The Notebook’ Is Shallow, Boring and Slow

The Notebook | 2hrs 20mins. One intermission. | Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre | 236 West 45th Street | (212) 239-6200 Thank you for signing up! ...

19.03.2024 10

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Michael Keaton Proves He’s Forgotten Nothing in ‘Knox Goes Away’

Agreeable, multifaceted Michael Keaton has been away from the screen for a while, but as both star and director of Knox Goes Away, his fresh and...

15.03.2024 5

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Anthony Hopkins Is a Magnificent Centerpiece in ‘One Life’

Of all the recurring themes at the movies, none is less constant or more prolific than the Holocaust. Every year introduces a few new ones. But...

15.03.2024 9

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Keep Your Barbie. I’ll Take Mother Cabrini.

Mother Cabrini, one of the most powerful, influential and inspirational women who ever lived, has always been one about whom much is guessed and...

09.03.2024 10

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‘American Dreamer’ Review: Shirley MacLaine and Peter Dinklage Are a Perfect Pair

It’s always a treat to welcome the fiery, versatile and almost always surprising Shirley MacLaine back to the screen, although now, in happy...

08.03.2024 9

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‘Ordinary Angels’ Is Touching, Pure and Positive

Sometimes, a movie with no extraordinary cinematic merits wins your heart because of the touching way it shows the pure, positive, feel-good actions...

27.02.2024 8

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‘Red Right Hand’ Review: Orlando Bloom Tries and Fails

Red Right Hand, another routine crime-thriller with a title that makes no sense, is a violent and nauseating excuse to entertain the portion of what...

24.02.2024 10

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‘Bleeding Love’ Is Ewan McGregor’s Vanity Project to Launch His Daughter’s Career

In the unpleasantly named Bleeding Love, an estranged father (Ewan McGregor) and his deeply disturbed 20-year-old daughter (played by his...

15.02.2024 10

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‘Suncoast’ Is Another Mediocre Coming-of-Age Movie That Makes Too Many Wrong Choices

It’s one damned thing after another in Suncoast, a leaden, melodramatic soap opera with forced comedic elements inserted to drag out the playing...

06.02.2024 7

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Will More Than 10 People See the Genre-Defying ‘Disco Boy’? Probably Not.

It won a Silver Bear in Berlin for “outstanding artistic contribution,” whatever that means, so somebody must have considered the bizarre...

05.02.2024 8

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‘The Taste of Things’ Is the Best Foreign Film of the Year

Do not see The Taste of Things on an empty stomach. It’s a French film about gourmet French cuisine, magnificently photographed and meticulously...

05.02.2024 10

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‘American Star’ Is a Worthless Thriller Without Thrills

Another in a long line of post-epidemic potboilers searching for space on empty movie marquees, American Star is a worthless thriller without...

29.01.2024 20

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A Clumsy, Clueless, Colossal Bore: ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’ Review

In the dull, inert drama Sometimes I Think About Dying, Daisy Ridley, the British-born actress who displayed much more animation, personality and...

27.01.2024 5

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‘Mean Girls’: Nothing to Come in 2024 Can Possibly Be Worse

Vapid, tasteless and monumentally stupid, the new and decidedly unnecessary version of Mean Girls proves Tina Fey is still not above trashing...

15.01.2024 30

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Rex Reed’s Best & Worst Films of 2023

In 2023, Rex Reed reviewed over 60 movies for Observer. Regardless of the rating, the instant his reviews hit our inbox (even when they’re late),...

29.12.2023 20

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