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Winona (Talks) Forever, with Keanu, in Destination Wedding

By Danny King
Sep 6, 2018

Ryder and Reeves spend the entire movie preoccupied only with one another, despite their characters’ intimate associations with the betrothed couple
For Better or Worse, Den of Thieves Gives Gerard Butler 140 Minutes to Ham It Up

By Danny King
Jan 19, 2018

Christian Gudegast’s Den of Thieves comes in a cut above the usual trash that Gerard Butler stars in (Law Abiding Citizen, Olympus Has Fallen), which is to say it’s a cut above movies that themselves are already passably diverting ...
A Nashville Star Learns What Really Matters in the Too-Obvious Forever My Girl

By Danny King
Jan 17, 2018

Where the movie occasionally locates some surprise and resonance is in the tiny exchanges, when Wolf allows her characters to breathe, free of the demands of a schematic narrative
Liam Neeson’s The Commuter Is Anything but Routine

By Danny King
Jan 15, 2018

Like many a Collet-Serra protagonist, Michael endures much punishment throughout The Commuter — some of it, as with one close-quarters battle involving a guitar, presented in spectacular extended-take fashion
Christian Bale and Hostiles Brood Their Way Through the Frontier

By Danny King
Dec 15, 2017

This surge of internal agony seems intended to pulse throughout the movie’s gruesome state-crossing trek, but Bale, in the part, is much less caricature-adjacent in the lighter beats ...

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