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MAGGIE’S PLAN

Let’s just set the tone right now and say it – quirky Greta Gerwig goodness. Written and directed by Rebecca Miller, MAGGIE’S PLAN is fun and light, unfolding with inherent humor fueled by Gerwig’s Maggie and her revolving relationships with Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore. Nothing is ever forced. Rebecca

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HIGH-RISE

British director Ben Wheatley first caught the attention of many when he threw his hat into the feature film ring with “Kill List”. Already known for his episodic television work across the pond, “Kill List” made one sit up and take notice of Wheatley’s directorial storytelling skill. Now, with HIGH-RISE,

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CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

To the horror of many of my colleagues in the press and evoking a chorus of gasps and boos from them at the recent press junket for CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (although Paul Rudd cheered and Kevin Feige lit up like a Christmas tree), I dared to say that which

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GREEN ROOM

I always knew “green rooms” could be dangerous places – especially back in the 70’s and 80’s at the height of metal and then with 90’s punk and free-flowing drugs and alcohol –  but Jeremy Saulnier takes the idea of a green room to a whole new deliciously twisted level

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ELVIS & NIXON

You’ve seen the pictures. I’ve seen the pictures. The whole world has seen the pictures. And “the pictures” remain to this day the most requested images in the National Archives. What pictures, you may ask? Those taken on December 21, 1970, by White House photographer Ollie Atkins; when Elvis Presley

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THE ADDERALL DIARIES

Written and directed by Pamela Romanowsky based on the book by Stephen Elliott, “Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder”, James Franco takes center stage in THE ADDERALL DIARIES as the flawed but fascinating unreliable memorist Stephen Elliott, a best-selling author who is forced to confront the truth about his past

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CRIMINAL

How can anyone pass up a Kevin Costner film where his character of Jerico Stewart reads like a combination of that in “Mr. Brooks” and “3 Days to Kill”? Then toss in Ryan Reynolds, Gary Oldman, Gal Gadot and Tommy Lee Jones with a script by David Weisberg and Douglas

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ONE MORE TIME

Once is definitely not enough when it comes to Christopher Walken and a rather charming take on family dysfunction in ONE MORE TIME. Paul Lombard was a star back in the day. Crooning a-la Sinatra he had hit after hit after hit. But as happens with time, music tastes change

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