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Tropic Sprockets: Fancy Dance
Erica Tremblay strikes an affecting and empathetic first film with “Fancy Dance,” which underscores the existential plight of the Native American community in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Tropic Sprockets: Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
It is an ambitious undertaking in this day and age of 90-minute post pandemic cinema, and Costner as director hits the perfect comforting Western notes, with grand landscapes and a majestic score.
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Front Row at the Movies: Horizon: An American Saga
From his Oscar-winning “Dances With Wolves” to “Open Range” to TV’s more recent “Yellowstone” – 69-year-old Kevin Costner has thrived with the Western genre. So Costner is trying to capture lightning in a bottle again, coming up with his own cowboy tale that’s so large he plans to tell it as four sequential movies.
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Front Row at the Movies: A Quiet Place: Day One
As the title suggests, this new entry “takes the action back to the first day of the invasion when we find out exactly how the world went quiet, and follows as a woman named Sam must survive an invasion in New York City by these bloodthirsty alien creatures with ultrasonic hearing.
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Tropic Sprockets: Ghostlight
In other director’s hands, these notes of guilt, fear and frustration could play like a Hallmark card of pathos, but O’Sullivan executes all of the accents with a fine understated quality that is just right,
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Front Row at the Movies: Thelma
At the age of 94, June Squibb got her first leading role. In “Thelma,” she stars as a grandmother undertaking a Mission: Impossible kind of adventure.
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Tropic Sprockets: Thelma
The now-93-year-old character actor June Squibb carries the film with spirit and verve, giving the silliness of action empathy and importance.
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Tropic Sprockets: Flipside
“Flipside,” a new documentary by Chris Wilcha is an engaging and wistful rumination about pop culture, nostalgia, the mania of collecting, and the passage of time.
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Front Row at the Movies: Tuesday
First-time director Daina O. Pusic has managed “to shake up the formula" of the grieving-parent story "and with the help of some magical realism, has told this story in a fresh, unique and interesting way.”
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Front Row at the Movies: Freedom on My Mind
Variety called "Freedom on My MInd" “a landmark documentary that chronicles the most tumultuous and significant years in the history of the civil rights movement. A must see.”
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