Tag: John Gallagher Jr.
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Come Play: Unloneliness (***)
Come Play is another debut by a director who turns a successful short into something hopefully better with studio support. The results are mixed, but overall this is the kind of film one shows their kids if unsure whether or not they’re really ready for a scary movie.
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The Belko Experiment(***1/2): Your life is not your own
This is all enjoyable, to be sure. Undoubtedly because the premise if filled with intrigue and asks questions of human nature. If they’ve done a film like this before, they certainly didn’t attempt it to this scale. The number of characters interacting would normally require a certain percentage of bland characterizations, but the acting and…
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10 Cloverfield Lane: Children behave… (****1/2)
This is the rare case where the tie in works for the right reasons.
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