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Joaquin Phoenix stars in You Were Never Really Here as a traumatized veteran hired to rescue a senators daughter from a sex trafficking ring.

Review: Joaquin Phoenix’s tortured protagonist packs a punch

By Michael Friedman, Staff Writer
May 1, 2018
Dwayne The Rock Johnson stars in Rampage as a primatologist who must stop genetically engineered monsters from destroying Chicago.

Review: Mindless monster movie is silly but satisfying

By Michael Friedman, Staff Writer
April 23, 2018
Director Arnando Iannucci returns to political satire with The Death of Stalin, which follows the senior members of Josef Stalins Council of Ministers as they fight to take control of the government.

Review: Shocking satire crafts slapstick power struggle

By Michael Friedman, Staff Writer
April 9, 2018
Shot entirely on an iPhone 7 Plus, Unsane is a suspenseful horror movie about a woman trapped in a mental institution.

Review: ‘Unsane’ offers much-needed edgy originality

By Michael Friedman, Staff Writer
March 27, 2018
Thoroughbreds is a darkly hysterical drama about two upper-class teenage girls plotting a murder.

Review: ‘Thoroughbreds’ delightfully disturbs

By Michael Friedman, Staff Writer
March 27, 2018
“Death Wish” centers on a surgeon named Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) as he becomes an amateur vigilante after his family is attacked in a home invasion.

Review: Comedy clashes with dark tone in ‘Death Wish’

By Michael Friedman, Staff Writer
March 5, 2018
From the studio that produced Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit comes a new animation movie Early Man. A cave man Dug (Eddie Redmayne) must save his village from the greedy Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston).

Review: Stop-motion animation brings the Stone Age to life

By Michael Friedman, Staff Writer
February 20, 2018
Winchester is a supernatural horror movie set in 1906. After receiving her husbands company after his death, Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren) begins to feel that she is being haunted by malicious spirits.

Review: ‘Winchester’ is a wearisome waste of time

By Michael Friedman, Contributing Writer
February 12, 2018
“Hostiles” is about Captain Joseph J. Blocker (Christian Bale) and his small unit of soldiers as they escort a Cheyenne war chief and his family to their tribal lands, across dangerous territory.

Review: Gut-wrenching Western wears down viewers

By Michael Friedman, Contributing Writer
February 6, 2018
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