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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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Front Row at the Movies: The Smashing Machine
Suppose you wanted to make a biopic about a former wrestler who became a champion mixed martial arts fighter – literally a smashing machine? Who would be the perfect cast? How about Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson – former WWE champion and bankable A-list movie star?
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Tropic Sprockets: The Lost Bus
Director Paul Greengrass is a poet of non-fiction anxiety and he pulls no punches here.
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Tropic Sprockets: One Battle After Another
“One Battle After Another” is a dense and visual character study that is as comical as it is immersive. It is full of cinematic references, twists and turns and it is visually impactful.
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Front Row at the Movies: The Lost Bus
Based on the book “Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire” by Lizzie Johnson, “The Lost Bus” shares the extraordinary tale of a bus driver trying to navigate a vehicle carrying 22 children and their teacher to safety through the 2018 Camp Fire.
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Tropic Sprockets: Eleanor the Great
Some will pine for more shadow and subversiveness with seniority, but for those wanting more delight with their helping of deception, this easeful film sprinkled with June Squibb’s salty insults will fill the appetite for generational friendships.
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Front Row at the Movies: One Battle After Another
Director Paul Thomas Anderson's “One Battle After Another” is an action thriller loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel “Vineland," examining the ‘60s spirit of rebellion, the traits of the "fascistic Nixonian repression," and the War on Drugs.
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Tropic Sprockets: The History of Sound
Oliver Hermanus ("Living") directs the heartfelt period drama “The History of Sound,” loosely based on the legendary musicologist Alan Lomax, who is known for traveling around the Deep South recording folk songs.
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Front Row at the Movies: Eleanor the Great
Scarlett Johansson makes her directorial debut with “Eleanor the Great,” the story of an elderly Floridian woman who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 19-year-old student in New York City. Maybe it echoes “Harold and Maude,” but it stands on its own as a drama worth seeing.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Roses
Colman and Cumberbatch are both highly corrosive and highly watchable. Be careful what you wish for -- matrimony can precipitate Armageddon.
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