Full Frame Documentary Film Festival: Dina★★ Friday, April 7 Carolina Theatre, Durham It speaks to the high quality of Full Frame that the films in its perennial programming range in quality from “above average” to “transcendent.” Any chagrin is typically reserved for experimental submissions that might not suit the taste of some viewers or docs […]
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Full Frame XX: In Steve James’s Abacus, a Small Family Bank Is the Lone Scapegoat for the 2008 Mortgage Crisis
STEVE JAMES: ABACUS Thursday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., $14-16 The Carolina Theatre, Durham www.fullframefest.org Steve James is one of the most recognizable names among the often more anonymous ranks of documentary filmmakers. His Hoop Dreams is one of the most acclaimed documentaries in historyRoger Ebert called it “one of the great moviegoing experiences of my […]
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Movie Review: Kong: Skull Island Is a Thrilling Ride to the Heart of Darkness
Kong: Skull Island ★★★ ½
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Movie Review: John Wick: Chapter 2, a Solid Return for Keanu Reeves’s Laconic Hit Man, Runs on Muscle Cars and Muscle Memory
John Wick: Chapter 2 ★★★ ½
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Movie Review: Men Are From Mars and Women Are Typecast in The Space Between Us, a Garishly Inauthentic Interplanetary Romance
The Space Between Us ★
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Movie Review: In The Comedian, De Niro Gives Us Too Much Insult and Not Enough Comic
The Comedian ★★ Opening Friday, Feb. 3 Comedy is equal parts material and delivery. The funniest quip will flop if told with bad timing, and a sharp style can’t carry leaden content. Unfortunately, both afflictions affect The Comedian, a character study that never digs below its protagonist’s loathsome surface and a comedy in which the […]
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Movie Review: How M. Night Shyamalan Got His Groove Back in Split
Split★★★ Now playing The time when M. Night Shyamalan was poised to become cinema’s next great master of suspense has long since come and gone, bulldozed by the hubris of effects-driven hokum and recycled self-parody. After a decade of five consecutive whiffs, last year’s The Visit was a cautious, low-budget return to form. Shyamalan’s comeback […]
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Movie Review: In Silence, Scorsese Taps a Deeply Spiritual Vein in a Visceral Story of Faith
Silence ★★★★ ½Opening Friday, Jan. 13 We may never see the likes of Martin Scorsese again in American cinema. He’s the embodiment of what Orson Welles should have become: the master auteur and leader of a New Hollywood movement who nimbly balances fan-friendly and money-making gangster flicks, psychological thrillers, and edgy character dissections with highly […]
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Mark Wahlberg Singlehandedly Avenges Boston in Patriots Day
PATRIOTS DAY Opening Friday, Jan. 13
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In the True Story of Hidden Figures, Three Gifted Women Blast Past Racism in the Space Race
HIDDEN FIGURES ½ Opening Friday, Jan. 6 When Donald Trump repeatedly referred to “the good old days” during the presidential campaign, he was basically dog-whistling the 1960s setting of HIDDEN FIGURES, a space movie that celebrates science and maththe real stuff behind The Right Stuffwith a terrific ensemble cast, particularly the three sterling leads. Based […]
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