Category: Reviews
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BOB TREVINO LIKES IT births a star in Ferreira
A live-in caregiver Lily Trevino (played by Barbie Ferreira) gets cheated on by her boyfriend and has a fallout with her selfish father Bob (French Stewart), leading her down a lonely spiral. She’s been conditioned to believe that everything bad that happens in other people’s lives are her fault thanks, in large part, to her…
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Wrestling fans will love QUEEN OF THE RING
Before she became a pioneer in professional wrestling, Mildred Burke (played by Emily Bett Rickards), is a small town single mom who falls in love with the sport after going to a match. Bucking the gender trends of the 1930’s and 1940’s, Burke refuses to give up on her dream of performing in the ring…
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RIFF RAFF a slow burn with big payoff
When Rocco (played by Lewis Pullman) kills his old friend Jonathan (Michael Covino) in defense of his pregnant girlfriend Marina (Emanuela Postachhini), the couple immediately goes on the run. Seeking safe harbor, Rocco takes Marina to his estranged dad’s cabin in the woods at 4:00am where Vincent (Ed Harris), his wife Sandy (Gabrielle Union) and…
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Prepare to hold your breath throughout LAST BREATH
Soon-to-retire bellman Duncan Allcock (played by Woody Harrelson) is leading his last deep sea dive in order to fix a gas line more than 300 feet below the ocean’s surface. When a violent storm comes in, veteran saturation diver Dave (Simu Liu) and unseasoned saturation diver Chris (Finn Cole) run into trouble during their mission.…
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Daisy Ridley great, yet again, in CLEANER
During a gala to celebrate a company’s contributions to conservation, a high rise building is taken over by a band of armed activists. While the takeover is happening, former soldier Joey Locke (played by Daisy Ridley) is on the side of the building cleaning windows. When her requests to be brought back up to the…
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THE UNBREAKABLE BOY is about more than autism
A young, ambitious medical salesman named Scott (played by Zachary Levi) gets a young store clerk, Teresa (Meghann Fahy) pregnant before he knows her last name. They decide to stay together and build a life with one another. Along comes a baby boy, Austin (Jacob Laval), who is diagnosed with Osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as…
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LOVE HURTS doesn’t know what it wants to be
There’s a serious crisis of identity with LOVE HURTS and the performances can’t save it.
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Wahlberg makes FLIGHT RISK watchable
A desk agent with the US Marshal Service, Deputy Madelyn Harris (played by Michelle Dockery), is back in the field for the first time in years escorting a key witness in a high profile case. Once she secures Winston (Topher Grace), the informant who’s trying to hide in the Fairbanks area of Alaska, they board…
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ONE OF THEM DAYS is hilarious and relatable
Roommates and best friends Dreux (played by Keke Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA) are trying their best to make ends meet while living in the hood. But when Alyssa gives her boyfriend, Keshawn (Joshua Neal), their rent money to pay the landlord, he reinforces his mooching reputation and “invests” in knock-off designer clothes. The roommates find…
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DEN OF THIEVES 2 unnecessarily complicated
Los Angeles Sheriff Nick O’Brien (played by Gerard Butler) sees a news report of a diamond heist at the Antwerp airport in Belgium and notices some similarities to unsolved cases in Southern California. After doing some digging, he realizes the burglary was, in fact, led by Donnie Wilson (O’Shea Jackson Jr.), the very man he’s…
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