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Cold War
This is a wonderfully made film. While it has less action than five minutes of a lot of other movies, I could not look away from it. It is s

Ben Pivoz
Feb 10, 2019


The Prodigy
The Prodigy is a bad movie. It is an unoriginal idea stuffed into a poorly devised story with lame twists and no excitement. Horror movies a

Ben Pivoz
Feb 9, 2019


Cold Pursuit
It is a refreshing take on the genre. It is not always successful. The uneven tone is sometimes distracting and the thinness of the characte

Ben Pivoz
Feb 9, 2019


What Men Want
What Men Want is a good idea given a fairly lazy treatment. There are definitely moments that made me laugh out loud. There were also moment

Ben Pivoz
Feb 9, 2019


They Shall Not Grow Old
It is astounding how good They Shall Not Grow Old looks. The job Jackson’s team did cleaning up this footage is amazing. You may have seen t

Ben Pivoz
Feb 7, 2019


Miss Bala
The original was about the innocent people caught in the middle of the war on drugs. The remake is more of an action movie with a topical ho

Ben Pivoz
Feb 2, 2019


Stan & Ollie
I ended up enjoying it for stretches thanks to the performances as well as the general pleasantness of the entire production. It is heavy wi

Ben Pivoz
Jan 31, 2019


The Kid Who Would Be King
The way it parallels the story is clever, if obvious. However, the emphasis is on the characters, not the mythology. It builds on the origin

Ben Pivoz
Jan 26, 2019


Serenity
Having seen the whole thing, I appreciate what Steven Knight was attempting, even if he was eventually unsuccessful. He shows he is unafraid

Ben Pivoz
Jan 25, 2019


Glass
There are several well-crafted individual scenes, but the story fails to go anywhere for a long while. Once it does, it generates some suspe

Ben Pivoz
Jan 24, 2019
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