Searchlight Pictures
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Miami Film Festival GEMS 2025 Capsule Reviews
Nouvelle Vague Directed by Richard Linklater Starring Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, and Audry Dullin Netflix Nouvelle Vague is a love letter to the French New Wave and to Jean-Luc Godard. It shows how much Richard Linklater loves this genre and… Continue reading
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[NYFF 63] Is This Thing On? Review – Bradley Cooper’s Heart On Full Display
By Kyle Flynn If I were to sum up the three films of Bradley Cooper in a single word, it would be earnest. A Star Is Born marked a turning point in his career — not just a performance that… Continue reading
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[TIFF 50] Rental Family Review – Overly Predictable, But It’s Heart Shines Through
By Kyle Flynn The 2020s have been fantastic for both the lead actor of Rental Family, Brendan Fraser, and the filmmaker of Rental Family, Hikari. Brendan quickly kick-started a comeback with his Oscar-winning performance in The Whale (a film I… Continue reading
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The Roses Review – A Hilarious Remake That Makes This War Fun
The Roses is a remake of the 1989 film The War of the Roses, directed by and co-starring Danny DeVito. In the lead roles were Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and it was a movie that took the phrase “domestic… Continue reading
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O’Dessa Review – A Gorgeously Filmed Post-apocalyptic Love Story With Some Decent Music Thrown In For Good Measure
Futuristic worlds or post-apocalyptic versions of our world are not unfamiliar for filmmakers to make movies about in Hollywood. Going all the way back to Barbarella, Beastmaster and the Original Road Warrior writers/directors have had a fascination with telling stories… Continue reading
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My Top 10 Films of 2024, Plus Honorable Mentions
By Dan Skip Allen My Honorable Mentions In No Particular Order: Nickel Boys, Tuesday, The Piano Lesson, Jim Henson: Idea Man, Seed of the Sacred Fig, All We Imagine As Light, September 5, Furiosa: A Mad Max Story, Will &… Continue reading
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A Complete Unknown Review- A Transcendent Performance From Chalamet Lifts This Musical Biopic Into Great Status
I’ve said many times now that I’m a big fan of musical biopics in the past. It’s ad nauseum by now. I have to say once again that I’ve seen another fantastic musical biopic. A Complete Unknown is the latest… Continue reading
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Miami Film Festival GEMS (2024) Nightbitch Review- A Film Dealing With Maternal Instincts At Their Most Basic Nature
Mireille Heller is a writer/director who has made some very good films in recent years including A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood about Fred Rogers starring Tom Hanks, Diary of a Teenage Girl about an awkward girl coming of age… Continue reading
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Miami Film Festival GEMS (2024) A Real Pain Review- A Road Trip Film Through Poland Turns Into A Story About An Annoying Guy I Didn’t Like Very Much
Jesse Eisenberg is a prolific actor who’s done some great work in The Social Network, Now You See Me, Zombieland, and now his latest A Real Pain which he also wrote/directed. He has found an interest in directing lately with… Continue reading
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Kinds of Kindness Review- Self Indulgence By Lanthimos Isn’t Exactly A Good Thing Especially Considering His Past Films
Anthology films are a mixed bag. Sometimes they are stories of groups of people in relationships or looking for love as in New York I Love You. Sometimes they are films that have different horrific stories in them like VhS… Continue reading
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