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Michelle Yeoh as Olwen, a replicant Blade Runner in the final days of her life, and Hunter Schafer as Cora, Olwen’s “partner” as well as a human pretending to be a replicant.

I saw Run Lola Run twice a quarter-century ago. Throttled. Last night I re-watched a 4K restored version at a Danbury plex, and loved it just as much. Smart, fleet. metaphysical, and funnier than I remembered. Plus what an unusual thing to catch a fast-moving flick that lasts only 80 minutes when the average feature … Read more

I could never fully understand why Jason Reitman‘s The Front Runner, which opened five and a half years ago, was blown off by nearly everyone. The Sony Pictures docudrama is about the tragic fall of Presidential contender Gary Hart during the 1988 primary campaign. I completely fell for it after the Telluride ’18 debut. It … Read more

Reports about the Canadian forest fire smoke turning the air in the tristate area (New York City Connecticut, New Jersey) into a region that vaguely resembles Blade Runner 2 and is blanketed with air quality that’s worse than the most polluted Indian cities…okay, they haven’t been inaccurate. But if you’re from Los Angeles, which has … Read more

I’ve just verbalized some reactions to this morning’s Oscar nominations. Click the arrow below — 20 minutes, give or take. Suddenly and very much out of the blue, Edward Berger‘s All Quiet on the Western Front is the Best Picture frontrunner. Or so it seems to me. There’s no possible basis for a broad-based consensus … Read more

Be honest — the films listed in the 4th, 5th, 6th and 10th place slots represent pure political-cultural tokenism. And you can scratch all the “major threats” except for Armageddon Time and The Whale. And all the “possibilities” except for Close and Thirteen Lives.

…it never manifested, not even a little bit. Just remember that. Obviously a fascinating cult film and a phenomenal atmosphere thing, but the perpetual nightscape, constant acid rain, smokestacks belching fireballs into the black muck, too many people, vast disparities between street culture and high-rise corporate sanctums, flying taxis, huge video billboards, Times Square meets … Read more

I’ve been a Los Angeleno for 37 years, and I’ve never seen or heard a July 4th spectacle like the one that happened last night. It just kept going and going.

In The Front Runner, Hugh Jackman‘s Gary Hart is a smart, decent, amiable politician whose life suddenly blows up. He gets walloped by the news media over a private matter, and he just can’t believe it. He can’t accept that reporters would want to make hay over indications that he might have been intimate with … Read more

It’s okay with me if The Favourite‘s Olivia Colman wants to go for Best Actress, even if she’s not playing a lead role. I’ve accepted her strategy because you can’t fight City Hall, but I will not accept the forehead-slapping notion that the film’s two actual leads, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, are now Supporting … Read more

I saw The Front Runner (Columbia, 11.6) again last night. So well-ordered, smartly written, real-deal…a fastball you have to swing on. Gary Hart, the would-be Democratic nominee for President in the spring of ’87 whose candidacy was destroyed by the press over a relatively harmless instance of marital infidelity, is so well nailed by Hugh … Read more