Free Skate | Film Threat
From Finnish filmmakers Roope Olenius and Veera W. Vilo, Free Skate is a sports drama with a decidedly female perspective about the abuse that is only now being uncovered in women’s sports. Veera W. Vilo stars as a Russian figure skater (the…
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‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3 Episode 3 Recap: Bridges Built & Burned
Tensions are mounting aboard the U.S.S. Titan as Vadic (Amanda Plummer) and the Shrike pursue the starship deeper into a dangerous nebula, which prevents them from jumping to warp. But tension isn’t the only thing mounting, emotions are too. On…
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Noémie Merlant Stands Out In Shaky Motherhood Horror Flick
Motherhood can be hell. That's what writer-director Bess Wohl's new feature, Baby Ruby, presents as its hypothesis. It isn't the first movie to do so, and it surely will not be the last. Recent years have seen the conversation surrounding…
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She is Love | Film Threat
Imagine this nightmare scenario: you and your beautiful young girlfriend run a quaint bed and breakfast in the English countryside. Life is calm and happy. Until, in a bizarre twist of fate, your ex-wife shows up as your guest. What…
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Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre Review
Your enjoyment of Operation Fortune largely depends on how much you like Guy Ritchie. That should probably go without saying, but everything about the film is 100% Ritchie with all the staples you’d expect: kinetic action, fast-paced one-liners, Jason Statham,…
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Powerful Serial Killer Movie Takes Risks & Succeeds
The horror genre has always been scrutinized for its relationship with onscreen violence, but movies about serial killers, especially real ones, merit extra attention. These anomalous criminals have an outsized presence in fiction, and indeed in the popular imagination. Sometimes…
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Guy Ritchie Struggles With Tone
If you squint, you can kind of make out the type of movie Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre wants to be. Had everything gone right here, the end result would be a light-hearted riff on the Mission: Impossible template that…
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A Promising Idea And A Great Ensemble Cast Can’t Stop This Romp From Floundering
Audiences know Guy Ritchie can direct action, they know he can write quotable, pithy dialogue, and they know he can create memorable characters. However, for the most part, “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre” either fails to deliver or under-delivers on…
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Soul of the Ocean | Film Threat
SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! I’m an avid scuba diver, so I watch a lot of movies about the ocean to learn more about what I see on my trips into the big blue. Soul of the Ocean is easily…
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A Flat Adaptation of the Book
I read Daisy Jones & the Six way back when it first came out in 2019. My copy — signed by author Taylor Jenkins Reid, after I went to a reading of hers in London — is one of my…
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An Unforgettable Meditation On Friendship & Boyhood
Close is a portrait of before & after, of the intimacy of friendship & the devastation of losing it, with an astonishing performance at the center. Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele in Close. Underneath the Belgian summer sun, Léo…
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Din Djarin Is on a Path of Redemption
After an extended absence, The Mandalorian has finally returned with its exhilarating Season 3 premiere, which sees Din Djarin (voiced by Pedro Pascal) picking up where things left off in The Book of Boba Fett. If you skipped his two-episode…
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