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Film Review: The Ritual; Al Pacino and Dan Stevens fail to save horror film from expected cliches

Playing with the beats you come to expect from such an exorcism feature, The Ritual sets itself up with two priests – the devotee and the doubter – who go head-to-head on hoping to save a poor soul who has been inhabited by a certain evil.  It’s a standard practice, and many films have made…

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Film Review: The entertainingly perverse House of Gucci shows the comedy and drama behind the depravity of greed

House of Gucci is the second 2021 film from acclaimed filmmaker Ridley Scott. The first was the medieval drama The Last Duel, which was about a true story involving a woman who was fighting for her voice to be heard after being sexually abused in a tyrannically and patriarchal society. The second is about a…

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Film Review: The Irishman is the type of masterful mobster film only Scorsese could pull together

After his recent comments on Marvel movies sent Film Twitter into a misguided and absurd frenzy, Martin Scorsese is back to grabbing headlines for all the right reasons. With a reported budget of $160 million, a production time of over two years, and a three-and-a-half-hour runtime, The Irishman is one of Scorsese’s (and Netflix’s) biggest gambles…

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