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reviews 3.5 stars, action, ansel elgort, baby driver, edgar wright, eiza gonzález, heist, jamie foxx, jon bernthal, jon hamm, kevin spacey, lily james, reviews

BABY DRIVER

July 2, 2017

The right car, the right song, the right person. What more do you need in life?

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3 stars, alien: covenant, amy seimetz, billy crudup, callie hernandez, carmen ejogo, danny mcbride, demián bichir, guy pearce, james franco, katherine waterston, michael fassbender, reviews, ridley scott, sci-fi

ALIEN: COVENANT

June 25, 2017

The Alien franchise already went looking for God; five years on, it’s time to play God.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3 stars, carmen ejogo, christopher abbott, it comes at night, joel edgerton, kelvin harrison, reviews, riley keough, trey edward shults

IT COMES AT NIGHT

June 11, 2017

How fragile is man’s humanity to man when the plague is knocking at the door

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3.5 stars, action, chris pine, comic books, connie nielsen, danny huston, david thewlis, dc, dceu, elena anaya, ewen bremner, gal gadot, patty jenkins, reviews, robin wright, saïd taghmaoui, women in film, wonder woman

WONDER WOMAN

June 6, 2017

How does one tell the story of a god and make it interesting to us puny humans? How does one take an immortal spirit and an indestructible form and use it to spin a tale that will still captivate?

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3 stars, certain women, drama, jared harris, kelly reichardt, kristen stewart, laura dern, lily gladstone, michelle williams, rene auberjonois, reviews, women in film

CERTAIN WOMEN

May 28, 2017

The smallest things can have the greatest impact on an ordinary life.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews

SONG TO SONG

April 9, 2017

Sometimes, life is just background music.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 2.5 stars, daniel brühl, drama, efrat dor, iddo goldberg, jessica chastain, johan heldenbergh, niki caro, shira haas, the zookeeper's wife, war, women in film, wwii

THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE

April 2, 2017

Caro and Chastain go back to WWII to tell a tale of true beauty and true horror.

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Ryan McNeil
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