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Home » Nicole Kidman

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Posted inFilm

A testosterone-fueled hero’s journey

by Colleen Morrissey April 28, 2022April 28, 2022

The Northman is not a bad film. . . . But I can’t help but be disappointed that Eggers took this politically and socially fraught figure, the Viking, and played it so straight.

Posted inFilm

In its depiction of race, The Upside doesn’t have one

by Brandon Sward February 6, 2019August 18, 2021

The American remake starring Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart lacks the heart of the French original.

Posted inBlogs

‘Gary from Chicago’ was the ‘biggest star inside the 2017 Oscars,’ and other news

by Kate Shepherd February 27, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, CPD top cop Eddie Johnson is frustrated with Springfield for failing to stiffen punishments for repeat gun offenders.

Posted inBlogs

Deaf kids tear it up in The Tribe, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

by J.R. Jones July 10, 2015August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inFilm

Jennifer Aniston finds her inner ugly in Cake

by J.R. Jones January 28, 2015August 18, 2021

The veteran comic actress takes the dramatic plunge as a woman incapacitated by pain.

Scarlett Johansson
Posted inFilm

Under the Skin: On the road to nowhere

by Ben Sachs April 10, 2014August 18, 2021

In Under the Skin, Scarlett Johansson is an alien life-form stalking strange men.

The Butler
Posted inFilm

The Butler: The anti-Gump

by Ben Sachs August 21, 2013August 19, 2021

In Lee Daniels’s The Butler, painful social realities collide with delirious fantasy.

Stoker
Posted inFilm

Gall in the family

by J.R. Jones February 26, 2013August 19, 2021

Hitchcock’s Uncle Charlie is back in Chan-wook Park’s Stoker.

The object of brotherly love
Posted inFilm

The foul brown water of your love

by J.R. Jones October 3, 2012August 19, 2021

Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, and Matthew McConaughey star in Lee Daniels’s The Paperboy

Posted inBlogs

This Week’s Movie Action

by J.R. Jones December 23, 2010August 19, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue.

Posted inBlogs

What I’ll remember (maybe) …

by Pat Graham December 31, 2007August 19, 2021

Favorite odds and ends from a movie year almost past.

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