Movie Views

Musings about movies.

Sex is Boring

1 star Three 16-year-old girls go off on their own to the Greek party resort of Malia for seven days of Charles Bukowski-level debauchery. Their

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Fitting In is Fierce, Funny

3 ½ stars According to dictionary.com, an auteur is “a filmmaker whose personal influence and artistic control over a movie are so great that the

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Terrifying Trunk

3 ½ stars Let’s set the stage before you start watching Trunk: Locked In, which is now playing on Amazon Prime. Turn out all the

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Freud’s Last a Flop

1 star “The world is on the brink of war. In his final days, Sigmund Freud, a recent escapee with his daughter from the Nazi

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The Magnificent Madeleine

3 ½ stars The 1979 movie Manhattan opens with the lead character, Isaac Davis (Woody Allen), dictating notes for his latest novel. “He adored New

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Reflect Fails to Resonate

2 stars Feeling an oncoming existential crisis, Summer (Dana Kippel) convinces four of her girlfriends to go on a desert adventure retreat where they can

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The Persian Version

4 stars There is a familiarity found when watching the first part of writer/director Maryam Keshavaraz’s new movie, The Persian Version, a feeling that although

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