Pierce Brosnan plays a man who sneaks out of his retirement home to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in this charming, but corny drama.
Category: Movies
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‘Meanwhile on Earth’ Review: Outer Space and Inner Turmoil
A bereaved young woman faces terrible choices in this dreamily uncertain blend of science fiction and moral philosophy.
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‘Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point’ Review: Home for the Holidays
Tyler Taormina’s third theatrical feature is a lightly nostalgic ensemble piece set on Long Island.
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‘Il Grido’: Love and Loss in Italy’s Po River Valley
Long overshadowed by Michelangelo Antonioni’s later work, this feature, newly restored, is being revived at Film Forum, complete with once-censored scenes.
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Cillian Murphy, from ‘Oppenheimer’ to ‘Small Things Like These’
Cillian Murphy of “Oppenheimer” fame plays an Irishman interrogating a system of abuse and forced labor, despite everyone’s warnings to look the other way.
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‘Heretic’ Review: Hugh Grant Puts His Charm to Fiendish Use
In wily, vamping style, the actor plays a friendly neighbor to two missionaries before turning his home into a horror-filled slaughterhouse.
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‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ Review: How It Got So Great
The film, based on a 1972 children’s book by Barbara Robinson, tells the story of an unlikely group of kids stunning a small town for the holidays.
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Ridley Scott on ‘Gladiator II,” Denzel Washington and Joaquin Phoenix
The director speaks his mind on rejected sequel ideas, Joaquin Phoenix’s plan to quit the original and working with a “fractious” Denzel Washington.
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‘Elevation’ Review: A High Place
Humans flee monsters who refuse to surpass 8,000 feet in altitude in this “Quiet Place” copycat.
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‘Pedro Páramo’ Review: A Ghost Story Lacking in Spirit
In this grave adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s surreal novel, the living pray for salvation and the dead murmur regrets, but the filmmaking is oddly orthodox.