Actress Greta Gerwig makes her writing and directing debut with a coming-of-age story called Lady Bird. It is an honest, unflinching look at a young woman just reaching maturity, unsure of how to act or relate to others because, despite her […]
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) ☆ ☆ ☆
The best movies present characters who are forced to change or adapt as their stories occur, naturally and understandably. As they confront their mistakes, or situations they cannot overcome (but often do, because it is the movies), their feelings and […]
Continue reading »Thor: Ragnarok (2017) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Of the current Marvel superheroes, Thor is perhaps the oddest, coming as he does from an altogether different area of the universe. It’s hard for me to reconcile his mystical realm with the “normal” world which Marvel presents to us […]
Continue reading »Murder on the Orient Express (2017) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
I was not looking forward to this adaptation of the famous Agatha Christie novel, only because I remember the ending of the first movie version from 1974 — once one knows the remarkable ending to this mystery it can never […]
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