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Tropic Sprockets: Frankenstein
The maestro of melancholy, Guillermo del Toro, scores with his version of “Frankenstein.” The film is terrific for illustrating the heart and pain of the creature along with the mad egotism of the creator.
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Tropic Sprockets: Ballad of a Small Player
Though this film sounds only one note of crippling addiction, the visualization is startling in its pyrotechnic representation of Macau, a dragon that swallows Lord Doyle (Colin Farrell) whole without so much as a belch.
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Front Row at the Movies: My “Last” Movie Review
This is my “last” movie review. “Front Row at the Movies” is ending. After all, I am growing older (nearly 84), tired of weekly deadlines, ready to watch films for my singular enjoyment. So, I thought this last review might cover a lifetime of moviegoing.
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Tropic Sprockets: Good Fortune
While influenced by John Landis’s “Trading Places” and the adolescent mania of Judd Apatow’s “Superbad,“ Aziz Ansari’s “Good Fortune” has a gentle positive and unassuming spirit all its own while giving the appropriate devil’s due to the 1%.
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Tropic Sprockets: Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
In singing about the American male: modest, loyal, and sincere, yet confronted by a faceless, modern, and increasingly selfish world, there is no equal to Bruce Springsteen. In the new filmdirected by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart), we get a brief portrait of the songwriter during a pivotal time in his life.
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Front Row at the Movies: Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
“Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” is very much a period piece, “an evocation of both a moment in Springsteen’s career and an era in pop music that have both long receded into history.”
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Tropic Sprockets: Roofman
This is an even and entertaining portrait of a somewhat capricious and rebellious yet oddly sincere man who heads for the roof more often than Santa Claus.
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Front Row at the Movies: Roofman
“I hope that Jeff loves the movie,” Tatum says. “I hope that Jeff loves the spirit in which we made it, because we tried to walk the line of not making him the hero – and also loving him.”
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Tropic Sprockets: A House of Dynamite
Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite” details the very real unreality of a nuclear missile attack launched from an unknown nation and headed to Chicago. No nation takes responsibility for the rogue launch, but one thing is horridly clear: the superpowers want a response from the United States.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Smashing Machine
Dwayne Johnson is superb in this role, his most compelling and nuanced performance yet. He is a concussion factory, yet outside the ring, he is reserved and reticent.
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