Rosalind Chao

Jess Hong, Eiza González, John Bradley, Alex Sharp, Saamer Usmani, and Jovan Adepo in 3 Body Problem

3 Body Problem: Intriguing Sci-Fi thriller

3 Body Problem uses a big cast of characters to ask some big questions about the state of life on earth and how humans would face a potential alien invasion. The series has one season up now, but I’m guessing […]

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Melissa McCarthy and Chris O'Dowd in The Starling

Review: The Starling, in which Melissa McCarthy gets serious

The Starling needs a pro vs. con scoresheet for its uneven story. The pros come in the form of a really lovely cast who make the material as good as possible. The cons are that the story is overly sentimental

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Ed Helms and Patti Harrison in Together Together

Together Together, but not like that

Together Together is about a couple who spend a few intense months together, but they aren’t together together. It’s a story of the slow growth of respect and friendship between two people who are connected out of necessity, not love.

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Rosalind Chao and Chris Cooper in Thousand Pieces of Gold

Review: Thousand Pieces of Gold

Thousand Pieces of Gold, newly restored in 4K and re-released after 30 years, is a wild west romance about Chinese immigration. It was directed by Nancy Kelly adapted from a fact based novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn. Anne Makepeace wrote

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Meryl Streep in The Laundromat

Review: The Laundromat

The Laundromat isn’t a narrative. It isn’t a documentary. It isn’t a Vaudeville act. But it comes close to all those in an eccentric effort to explain the vast trail of emptiness behind the revelations in the Panama Papers.

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