For better or worse, the sports biopic “The Smashing Machine” (A24) registers as a highly realistic film.
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This intermittently amusing comedy, a sendup of the hardboiled cop genre, may qualify as a fun spoof for grown-ups. Yet one sequence of utterly tasteless sexual sight gags will leave …
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Offered big money by the representative of a pharmaceutical company to help retrieve dinosaur DNA, two special operatives veterans and a paleontologist join on a journey to a remote equatorial …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Motion pictures based on popular video games may have found their perfected form in “A Minecraft Movie” (Warner Bros.). The film is unrelentingly upbeat and …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – The formula is an old, but by no means venerable, one in Hollywood. Give a character with a military background an excuse to put his …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Moviegoers may wish they had a dose of “Novocaine” (Paramount) to get them through the revolting carnage that increasingly marks this action comedy starring Jack …
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From the wearing of green in honor of Ireland’s patron to St. Joseph altars laden with bread and gratitude, next week’s festivities remind us of two great saints from whom …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Following its 2019 release, helmer and co-writer Bong Joon Ho’s dark comedy “Parasite” won accolades for its intriguing approach to social commentary. In fact, it …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – In 2012, Scottish professional diver Chris Lemons was temporarily stranded at the bottom of the North Sea with a rapidly dwindling supply of oxygen. Both …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – The mind-control plot driving “Captain America: Brave New World” (Disney), the fourth film in the current series about the Marvel Comics character, drains it of …
