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At the Movies

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GETTING OUT, Spotlight

At the Movies: The Little Stranger Arrives Early

By Megan Bianco One whole month before Halloween season begins and we have a release of a retro, atmospheric horror-drama: The Little Stranger. Gothic horror…

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At the Movies: ‘Ocean’s 8’ is for Those Who Just Want Fun

By Megan Bianco I hate the term “mindless fun.” I think it’s an insult to audiences’ intelligence and a cheap phrase for studios to use…

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At the Movies: ‘On Chesil Beach’ Has Too Much Sap

By Megan Bianco Saoirse Ronan is rightly considered one of the best actresses of her generation—from her impressive skills in mimicking dialects to being able…

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At the Movies: Is Spielberg Too Much for ‘Ready Player One’?

At the Movies: Is Spielberg Too Much for ‘Ready Player One’? By Megan Bianco It’s the new-age question everyone has been pondering this past decade:…

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At the Movies: Dogs Rule in Anderson’s ‘Isle’

By Megan Bianco One of the most successful independent filmmakers in modern Hollywood cinema is Wes Anderson. From instant cult classics like Bottle Rocket (1996),…

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At the Movies: ‘Winchester’ Is a Misfire of a Film

By Megan Bianco Over the years, Hollywood horror movies have been pigeonholed into a genre of quantity over quality. The genre usually does well at…

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At the Movies: ‘Phantom Thread’ is Designed with Elegance

By Megan Bianco Paul Thomas Anderson is arguably the most acclaimed and well-known auteur in modern American cinema, and his new film, Phantom Thread, is…

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At the Movies: Audiences May be Put Off by ‘Mother!’

By Megan Bianco Behold, the most divisive and polarizing movie of 2017. If you thought Nicolas Winding Refn was the most shamelessly self-indulgent and pretentious…

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At the Movies: ‘It’ is Rated R for Spookiness

By Megan Bianco The best way to go in to Andy Muschietti’s new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic 1986 epic novel, It, is to have…

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At the Movies: Revisiting ‘Close Encounters’ 40 Years Later

By Megan Bianco Steven Spielberg’s first science-fiction feature Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is both a product of its time and has aged…

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At the Movies: ‘The Trip to Spain’ is Bittersweet

By Megan Bianco Since 2010, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon have sporadically co-starred in a successful comedy series called The Trip in the UK. But…

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At the Movies: Soderbergh Makes ‘Logan Lucky’

By Megan Bianco Cinematic auteur Steven Soderbergh is an intriguing enigma. He made the successful transition from indie filmmaker to studio director effortlessly, being one…

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At the Movies: ‘Wind River’ is a Fine Addition for Director Sheridan

By Megan Bianco With another untimely release date, and only a week after Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River comes to theaters with a…

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At the Movies: ‘Detroit’ Offers Mixed Emotional Experience

By Megan Bianco July 25 marked the 50th anniversary of the three murders at the Algiers Motel in Detroit. So it was purposely chosen as…

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At the Movies: Charlize Theron is the ‘Atomic Blonde’

By Megan Bianco When Angelina Jolie semi-retired from film acting, it looked like Scarlett Johansson was going to take her place as Hollywood’s top action…

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