Cassie (short for Cassandra, no subtlety here) is a magnificent machine of vengeance, acted to steely perfection by Oscar-nominated Carey Mulligan. “Promising Young Woman” is […]
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“News of the World” has all the trappings of the on-the-road adventure genre, with hints of the Western and the buddy film—a mix of “True […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Darkest Hour
It’s one of the great movie lines. It’s May 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill (a masterful Gary Oldman) has just whipped the British Parliament into […]
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The North Park Theatre has come up with an ingenious way of keeping things chugging along. The operators of the theater have orchestrated a series […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Minari
At the heart of the mythology of the American frontier is a family—struggling, in relative isolation but cooperatively—to wrest a living, and a life, from […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Another Round
Excessive drinking and existential angst, two characteristics of Danish life—according to the Danes—are stirred and mixed well in award-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film. […]
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It turns out Fred Rogers, the mainstay of low-key children’s television for nearly a half century, was something of a child psychologist, maybe even prescient […]