Movie Review: 2018’s ‘A Star is Born’ Puts a Fresh Take on Stale Material
This fourth version of the familiar rags-to-riches tale is as good as any of them, with dark subtext new to the story
October 6, 2018
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This fourth version of the familiar rags-to-riches tale is as good as any of them, with dark subtext new to the story
Can’t-miss premise, intelligent script, taut direction, outstanding cast…where did Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep go wrong?
Did You Hear About the Morgans?, one of the very worst films of 2009, is an objectionably awful romantic comedy
Up in the Air is a timely, precise, extremely well-acted film that deserves most of the praise that’s being thrown at it
The Golden Compass takes us to a wonderful, original mythological world but fails to present any kind of isolated story to take us through
This cartoon version of Ghost Rider forgoes all respect for the source material and does succeed in a Schumacher-Batman kind of way