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- You might not expect a globetrotting thriller about espionage, conspiracies, and secret Nazi fortunes to be incredibly dull, almost stultifying. But if that’s true, you clearly haven’t seen The Holcroft Covenant<\/a>.<\/li>\n
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- Bullet Train<\/a> isn’t nearly as clever as it thinks it is. But it isn’t not<\/i> clever. A movie doesn’t always have to be wildly original to be fun, and while I can understand why people might find this derivative, even insufferable, I had a lot of fun with it.<\/li>\n
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- Amsterdam<\/a> is too meandering for its own good, but it’s well-acted and frequently entertaining along the way.<\/li>\n
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- It takes too many liberties with Billie Holiday’s life story to be anything but a failure as a biography, but Lady Sings the Blues<\/a> has some fantastic performances, particularly by Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams. Pauline Kael wasn’t wrong when she wrote, “Factually it’s a fraud, but emotionally it delivers.”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I watched just four movies last week. You might not expect a globetrotting thriller about espionage, conspiracies, and secret Nazi fortunes to be incredibly dull, almost stultifying. But if that’s true, you clearly haven’t seen The Holcroft Covenant. Bullet Train isn’t nearly as clever as it thinks it is. But it isn’t not clever. A … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12554,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547\/revisions\/12554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- It takes too many liberties with Billie Holiday’s life story to be anything but a failure as a biography, but Lady Sings the Blues<\/a> has some fantastic performances, particularly by Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams. Pauline Kael wasn’t wrong when she wrote, “Factually it’s a fraud, but emotionally it delivers.”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
- Amsterdam<\/a> is too meandering for its own good, but it’s well-acted and frequently entertaining along the way.<\/li>\n
- Bullet Train<\/a> isn’t nearly as clever as it thinks it is. But it isn’t not<\/i> clever. A movie doesn’t always have to be wildly original to be fun, and while I can understand why people might find this derivative, even insufferable, I had a lot of fun with it.<\/li>\n