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Tag: Musical

Wicked: For Good (2025)

Musical Rated PG

“… takes the whiff of an idea and fails to creatively or coherently imagine it in any way.”

Emilia Pérez (2024)

Musical Rated R

“It’s hard to describe how far off the rails Emilia Pérez goes…”

Wicked (2024)

Musical Rated PG

“A powder keg of movie-musical performances…”

Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

Musical Rated R

“…registers most strongly as a tragic character study.”

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

Musical Rated PG

“…filters highbrow influences through colored 1970s strobe lights.”

The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

Musical Rated NR

“To say that The Tales of Hoffmann is nightmare fuel is not to denigrate it.”

Funny Girl (1968)

Musical Rated G

“Wyler may have been the perfect choice to center Streisand, for the first time, on the big screen.”

Wonka (2023)

Musical Rated PG

“More Paul King than Roald Dahl…”

The Color Purple (2023)

Musical Rated PG-13

“If a novel is unfilmable anyway, why not take a wild shot at it?”

Flora and Son (2023)

Musical Rated R

“Another lo-fi fantasy from writer-director John Carney…”

Recent Reviews

By the Time It Gets Dark (2016)

Drama Rated NR

“While always mesmerized, I admittedly got lost amidst the layers…”

Two Minutes Late (1952)

Drama Rated NR

“… aims to be a big-screen version of a lurid pulp crime novel.”

Xiao Wu (Pickpocket) (1997)

Drama Rated NR

“… a scrappy, neo-realist tale of societal scrounging that’s paused by poetic moments of slow cinema.”


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