Let’s face it. Rom-coms are notoriously difficult to calibrate. One Night Only tries hard, and it has one exceptional performance, but its potential largely goes untapped.
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The new movie from producer-director-writer Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow, Coming 2 America) really wants you to like it, until it dares you to feel otherwise.
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If you’re planning a return visit to Pandora, bring your imagination and your patience.
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So, you probably wouldn’t think of pondering eternity as a casual, much less comedic, exercise. Yet that’s what you get in Eternity, which wants to balance fantasy, romance, pathos and humor.
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In writer-director Chloé Zhao’s heartbreaking new film, love is transformed twice, first by grief and then by art. It’s an exquisite conceit, thoughtfully realized and superbly acted.
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Luca Guadagnino makes impeccable movies. No matter what their relative merits, every aspect of his work reveals conscious, detailed choices. No matter how complex the emotions of his characters, his direction exhibits a distinct vision.
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This Disney project has been fifteen years in the making, renewing a franchise spawned in the 1980s.