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Familiar Touch – 7
Less a story than a scrapbook account of moving one’s mother to a memory-care facility. Kathleen Chalfant is superb as the regal 80-year-old who has retained her culinary skills but has no inkling of who the people around her are. Sympathetic, not maudlin, the picture it presents of a stage in life we have experienced […]
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life – 6
After time spent watching streamers it felt good to sit in a theater and see characters on a big screen with lush scenery behind them. Beyond that, this film was largely forgettable, although it left me wondering what its title meant. Camille Rutherford was fine as the Austen-besotted would-be writer, but the main attraction, for […]
NY Theater Spring ’25
Dead Outlaw (9) An outrageous true story of a mummy brought to life by a superb ensemble cast and a catchy country rock score played live onstage. The stagecraft was everything, as each excellent actor rotated through a variety of roles at a breakneck pace that drew you in and, amazingly, made you care. Andrew […]
Sinners – 7.8
One powerful movie. Ryan Coogler keeps us on the edge of our seats, guessing where the story is going before it explodes in our faces. There’s a lot about music, especially the blues, Southern culture, power, magic, sex (romance?) and race (the good guys are Native American, the bad guys white, and everyone in between […]
Warfare – 7.3
A minute-by-minute recreation of Navy Seals under attack in Ramadi, Iraq, remarkably devoid of a point-of-view, unless it’s that war is, if not hell, not a lot of fun. Why the American soldiers are holed up in this building, who is attacking them, or even why America is in this war are not even hinted […]