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Tully
Tully is a raw look at the difficulties of motherhood instead of a superficial fantasy. This is a movie that truly understands the pressure

Ben Pivoz
May 9, 2018


Overboard
There is absolutely no chemistry between the two central actors. For a romance to work, the audience has to want the leads to end up togethe

Ben Pivoz
May 5, 2018


I Feel Pretty
Amy Schumer is wonderful in the central role. Her confidence and affability does a lot to smooth over several of the more problematic aspect

Ben Pivoz
Apr 25, 2018


Super Troopers 2
How much you like Super Troopers 2 may depend on how much you enjoy Farva’s obnoxiously vulgar antics. I find him to be really funny and eve

Ben Pivoz
Apr 21, 2018


Finding Your Feet
It is easy to predict the beats of the story, but that does not mean you will be unable to have fun watching it follow them. There is certai

Ben Pivoz
Apr 14, 2018


Isle of Dogs
While the story is darker than usual for Anderson, the tone is the same and the theme is a familiar one. Somehow, even though the movie is s

Ben Pivoz
Apr 11, 2018


Blockers
Blockers is helped most of all by its screenplay, which is smarter and more thoughtful than it first appears. It would have been easy to jus

Ben Pivoz
Apr 8, 2018


The Death of Stalin
An incisive satire that is hilarious, entertaining and has something to say. The result is one of the best films of 2018, thus far.

Ben Pivoz
Mar 28, 2018


Love, Simon
Love, Simon is a wonderful feel-good movie. It is funny and touching and never treats its protagonist’s homosexuality as a plot device. It s

Ben Pivoz
Mar 18, 2018


Thoroughbreds
Thoroughbreds is the first pleasant surprise of 2018. I knew pretty much nothing about it going in and was captivated from start to finish.

Ben Pivoz
Mar 12, 2018
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