Tag: adults
Judi Dench reigns over ‘Victoria and Abdul’
Judi Dench is no stranger to playing royalty, and she shines once again as the titular queen in “Victoria and Abdul.”
Beginning in 1887, director...
Medea’s ‘Boo 2!’ runs out of Halloween comedy and horrror
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There’s a brief moment in “Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween” in which one desperately hopes that the plot has flickered...
‘Same Kind of Different as Me’ has its heart in the...
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Viewers committed to scriptural values will be inclined to cut the good-hearted but uneven drama “Same Kind of Different as Me” some...
‘Only the Brave’ — Searing look at wildland firefighters
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The heartbreaking true story of an elite Arizona firefighting team comes to the big screen in “Only the Brave.”
In 2013, the Granite...
Jackie Chan out for rogue IRA terrorist in ‘The Foreigner’
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Jackie Chan takes a sharp turn from his typically genial screen personality to become the vengeful father of a London terrorist victim...
Plane crash sparks love match on ‘The Mountain Between Us’
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The proverbial call of the wild sounds more like a roar in “The Mountain Between Us,” a trapped-in-the-wilderness survival drama based on...
‘Battle of the Sexes’ when male chauvinism loses on court
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The early 1970s in all its revanchist sexism, double-knit-fabric garishness and choking cigarette smoke is the setting of the coming-of-age story that...
‘Birth of the Dragon’ takes the action out of kung fu
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No one goes to a kung fu movie to savor plot nuances. They’re all about tightly choreographed kicks and punches, and pleasing...
‘Logan Lucky’ is a zany heist caper
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Director Steven Soderbergh reinvents his “Ocean's Eleven” trilogy with a backwoods twist in “Logan Lucky, ” a zany heist caper.
Instead of suave...
‘The Glass Castle’ —From Jeannette with love and squalor
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Anyone who’s endured the ignominy of grinding poverty with an alcoholic, out-of- work parent understands that there’s nothing ennobling about the experience.
It’s...