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‘Monkey Man’ is an adrenaline-pumped act of defiance

Ada Sussman April 17, 2024
Serving as both a tribute to the thrill of iconic action cinema and a lamentation of the mimeograph that the genre has become, Dev Patel’s directorial debut “Monkey Man” is intensely fiery and ambitious.
Dev Patel stars as Saroo Brierley in “Lion.” PHOTO COURTESY MARK ROGERS/ LONG WAY HOME PRODUCTIONS

REVIEW: “Lion” prowls Oscars with tear-jerking performances but lacks pacing

Jenni Todd December 8, 2016

Five years old and a few miles from home, a young boy named Saroo fell asleep in an idle train car in 1986 while waiting for his brother in central India and woke up in the western city of Kolkata days...

Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Celia Imrie star as Evelyn Greenslade, Douglas Ainslie and Madge Hardcastle in “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” released Friday. PHOTO BY LAURIE SPARHAM/20TH CENTURY FOX

REVIEW: Compared, “Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” exactly that

Caroline Aaron March 6, 2015

In 2011, director John Madden and screenwriter Ol Parker adapted a novel by Deborah Moggach about white British retirees moving to a less-than-luxurious hotel in India. The result was “The Best Exotic...

Sharlto Copley is Chappie, a robot given the ability to think for himself, in “Chappie,“ released Friday. PHOTO FROM COLUMBIA PICTURES

REVIEW: High-minded “Chappie” needs less metaphysics, more “zef”

Anna Novikova March 6, 2015

Robotics isn’t the future. It’s the present. So why are we still making movies about robots? Sure, Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie is no ordinary robot — he wears bling. But then again, what robot is...

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