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Tropic Sprockets: Coup de Chance
The iconic auteur Woody Allen returns with a film completely in French titled “Coup de Chance.” The narrative, involving a marital affair, ego and murder belongs in the category of one of his most satisfying films in several years.
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Front Row at the Movies: Thunder Rolls
“Thunder Rolls” is an unusual sports movie. But you’ll be rooting, “Play ball!”
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Tropic Sprockets: La Chimera
Alice Rohrwacher ("The Pupils") strikes again with her offbeat trademark tone in “La chimera.” Though the film underscores its fanciful edge well, its wandering dispassionate attitude might not be to all tastes—but the narrative retains an eccentric and personal brand of magical realism.
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Front Row at the Movies: Civil War
Written and directed by British sc-fi maestro Alex Garland (“Ex Machina,” “Annihilation”), the film is intended to be non-partisan. There is no firm left-vs.-right ideology at play. Having California and Texas (two states that rarely agree on anything) join forces was very intentional.
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Tropic Sprockets: Civil War
The film is a shocking sensory experience, stirring, eerie and nerve-jangling as a deadly diorama, but there is not much here behind the camouflage.
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Tropic Sprockets: Remembering Gene Wilder
Wilder was one actor who went full throttle in whatever he did, and his acting was given with great feeling, without malice or cynicism. He gave to the audience what he had to give, in freedom and without judgment.
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Front Row at the Movies: Wicked Little Letters
Based on an actual event that occurred in the 1920s, the film is directed by Thea Sharrock and written by Jonny Sweet. It’s billed as a black comedy, but if you were one of the participants you might not be laughing.
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Tropic Sprockets: Wicked Little Letters
The effect of this history on film is more Benny Hill than Oscar Wilde with the straitlaced prim and proper town getting flummoxed and flustered by the “filthy” language, with perspiring and tomato-faced barristers.
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Front Row at the Movies: Knox Goes Away
As one moviegoer observed, this is a “clever and surprisingly funny film that invites us to reflect on the fragility of memory and those we have personally lost, before their time, to dementia and similar conditions.” Yet it’s a tense and suspenseful thriller. And it has a satisfying twist.
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Front Row at the Movies: The Adventures of Robin Hood
This was the third film to pair Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (after “Captain Blood” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” They would ultimately star in nine films together. Olivia said of Errol Flynn: “Errol was a proud, sensitive man, and though every bit as adventurous as his screen roles, I think he was rather more complex than these.”
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