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• Hostiles

  Hostiles 2017

  

  Jacob Knight ★★ 1

  Hyper-portentous slog of grim anti-Western nothingness. Scott Cooper continues to get great casts and then have them talk through their teeth. It’s as if “acting” were on clearance at Target…

• Red Sparrow

  Red Sparrow 2018

  

  matt lynch ★★★ 3

  Starts out so silly and portentous and gradually slides all the way into portentous, which is too bad because it was on the path towards some solid diet Verhoeven. Sleazy…

• Empire of the Sun

  Empire of the Sun 1987

  

  Dominic Pink ★★★★½

  couldn't stop thinking how well this would pair with The Wind Rises

• Black Lizard

  Black Lizard 1962

  

  Joe ★★★★ 2

  "I commend you all on your bravery, capability, and swiftness, but it's too soon to award you with a reptilian title."

  I know this is by all accounts the inferior…

• Fair Game

  Fair Game 1986

  

  Wade Sowers ★★★½

  When three hunters appear at Jessica's (Cassandra Delaney) wild life preserve after trying to run her off the road, just for fun, she should have realized guys driving a truck…