Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse opens on Friday, Dec. 14.
Neil Morris
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Creed II Is a Good Rocky Sequel, But It’s Not a Good Creed Sequel
Michael B. Jordan gives a knockout performance, but this is dime-store Shakespeare.
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The Triangle’s Best Spots to Catch a Movie
From indies to blockbusters, the silver screen is calling.
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Damien Chazelle Shoots the Moon in Glorious Neil Armstrong Biopic First Man
Better than any other film, First Man conveys the folly of the early space program as well as the majesty and courage.
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Sundance-Winning Short Turned Feature Film Thunder Road Airs Out the Ills of the John Wayne Ideal
We speak with local producer Ben Wiessner in advance of the film’s regional premiere at Alamo Drafthouse.
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Movie Review: Internet Celebrity Bo Burnham Skewers the Medium of His Fame in Half-Brilliant Directorial Debut Eighth Grade
Eighth Grade★★★½ Now playing It’s hard to predict who will feel more disquieted watching Eighth Grade, Generation Z or its parents. Writer-director Bo Burnham, who rose to fame as an Internet sensation, skewers the very modern-day milieu that serves as his celebrity platform. The film focuses on Kayla (fifteen-year-old Elsie Fisher), who is in her […]
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Movie Review: The Least Interesting Thing About Christopher Robin Is Christopher Robin
Christopher Robin ★★½ Opening Friday, Aug. 3 The least interesting thing about Christopher Robin is Christopher Robin. Decades after departing from the Hundred Acre Wood as a teenager, Robin (Ewan McGregor) is all grown up, not to mention a World War II veteran. He has a wife (Hayley Atwell), a daughter (Bronte Carmichael), and a […]
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Movie Review: The Audacious Mission: Impossible – Fallout Rivals the Best of Bourne and Recent Bond
Mission: Impossible – Fallout ★★★★½ Now playing No moment in Mission: Impossible – Fallout captures Tom Cruise’s outsize persona better than the long shot of Cruise racing a BMW Scrambler motorcycle around the Arc de Triomphe. Cruise’s fascinating mélange of ego and effort is his stock-in-trade, so an iconic monument commissioned by Napoleon is a […]
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Movie Review: A Murky Moral and the Diminishing Returns of Digital Dinos Weigh on a Once-Mighty Franchise in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom ★★½ Opening Friday, June 22 The tension between science and consumerism is the narrative thread running throughout the Jurassic Park franchise. It’s a marvel to revive an iconic extinct species, but these dinos ain’t going to sell themselves. In 2015, Jurassic World saw the realization of John Hammond’s dream of a […]
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Movie Review: Fourteen Years Later, Incredibles 2 Is Stuffed with Allusions to Contemporary Social Issues. But to What End?
Incredibles 2 ★★★½ Now playing Although the plot of Incredibles 2 picks up where its forerunner left off, it’s been fourteen years since the moviegoing public checked in on the Parr family. The storyline is uninterrupted, but the focus of the metaphors has shifted with the times. Whereas The Incredibles was largely a commentary on […]