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.
Tag: Nicole Kidman
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In its depiction of race, The Upside doesn’t have one
The American remake starring Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart lacks the heart of the French original.
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‘Gary from Chicago’ was the ‘biggest star inside the 2017 Oscars,’ and other news
Also, CPD top cop Eddie Johnson is frustrated with Springfield for failing to stiffen punishments for repeat gun offenders.
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Deaf kids tear it up in The Tribe, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Jennifer Aniston finds her inner ugly in Cake
The veteran comic actress takes the dramatic plunge as a woman incapacitated by pain.
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Under the Skin: On the road to nowhere
In Under the Skin, Scarlett Johansson is an alien life-form stalking strange men.
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The Butler: The anti-Gump
In Lee Daniels’s The Butler, painful social realities collide with delirious fantasy.
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The foul brown water of your love
Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, and Matthew McConaughey star in Lee Daniels’s The Paperboy
