Tag: Christopher Abbott
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The Crowded Room teems with personality
The Crowded Room is hard to talk about without giving away the secret it tries to hide for the first five of its ten episodes. I can tell you that it’s a fascinating, complicated psychological drama and well worth watching. Tom Holland is brilliant in this, and so is Amanda Seyfried. With that said, I…
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Poor Things: Another wild adventure with Yorgos Lanthimos
Poor Things is streaming on Hulu now, which means you can check one more Oscar hopeful off your list of things to see. Yorgos Lanthimos directed this one. It is bizarre, bonkers, beautiful, and brilliant. Emma Stone stars as Bella Baxter, a Frankenstein-like character with an infant’s brain in a woman’s body.
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The World to Come brings period romance to the American frontier
The World to Come is a melancholy tale of the hardships of farming in 1856, brightened briefly by the astonishment and joy of falling in love. The film is available to rent to Prime Video.
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Review: Katie Says Goodbye
Katie Says Goodbye stars Olivia Cooke as an unusual young woman surrounded by poverty and desolation.
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Review: The Sinner, season 1
The Sinner stars Jessica Biel as a woman who commits a violent crime on a public beach. No one understands why she did it, including the woman herself.
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Review: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a 2016 Tina Fey starrer about a journalist in Afghanistan. It is based on a book by Kim Barker, “The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” The premise should guarantee an interesting journey into an unknown land. In some ways it fulfills that promise, it some ways it does…