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Silence 2016
I just saw Martin Scorsese's "Silence," but due to embargo I cannot really review it here, let alone discuss it, but the good news is that social media was allowed and so here are my tweets from Twitter for your viewing pleasure.
www.mrruimy.com/2016/12/my-legal-un-embargoed-reaction-to.html
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Allied 2016
www.mrruimy.com/2016/11/allied.html
"Allied" is a triumph of craft. Director Robert Zemeckis is, just like his buddy Steven Spielberg, an expert at the cinematic tropes that have enriched film history over the last 100+ years. This is an ode to old-fashioned storytelling and, if you're willing to accept this, the film is a richly satisfying ride. Of course, if the central relationship between Pitt and Cotillard was a little more developed, defined, established, whatever you will, the final punch in the gut…
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Doctor Strange 2016
www.mrruimy.com/2016/10/doctor-strange-or-how-i-tried-to-stop.html
I didn't know quite what to expect with "Doctor Strange." I'm not really a comic book fan, although I've read my fair share of Batman and Superman comic books when I was a kid. Those endless reading nights have not followed me to adulthood, but I get it. I get the whole craze. I like much of the stuff that I see when it comes to Marvel movies, but maybe not enough.
Benedict Cumberbatch is well cast as Dr.…
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20th Century Women 2016
Mixed bag for me too. Mills' intentions were in the right place though. I did really like Benning an Gerwig, but I thought the film didn't really go anywhere. Probably a very personal film for him, but i felt completely out of the story. I could never really get "in" it.
