RED NOTICE- 2021. Synopsis by Netflix. “FBI profiler John Hartley’s latest assignment — to catch the world’s most wanted art thief — puts him in the middle of a heist and in league with another top art thief in a chase that takes them around the globe.”
11/13/21- Awful reviews by the critics and excellent ones from audiences. TRDB.
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LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE is three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends. In the film’s first story TWO FOR DINNER, a married couple (Joanne Whalley and Chris Messina) find an unconventional way to transcend long distance through technology, but discover they were farther apart than they knew. In SAILING LESSON, a long-married couple (Kathy Baker and Marshall Bell) tries to reignite their honeymoon-phase heat through a spontaneous sailing trip… and unexpected events arise. And in LATE LUNCH, a young woman (Maya Kazan) who recently lost her mother gathers together a group of her mother’s friends (including Cybill Shepherd, Rosanna Arquette, and Rita Wilson) to share memories. Surprising revelations ensue.
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BELFAST- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “BELFAST is a movie straight from Branagh’s own experience. A nine-year-old boy must chart a path towards adulthood through a world that has suddenly turned upside down. His stable and loving community and everything he thought he understood about life is changed forever but joy, laughter, music and the formative magic of the movies remain.”
11/10/21- Very good reviews for this drama. TRDB.
12/1/21- I liked this movie very much. Lucky there were sub-titles. TRDB.
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FINCH- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In “Finch,” a man, a robot and a dog form an unlikely family in a powerful and moving adventure of one man’s quest to ensure that his beloved canine companion will be cared for after he’s gone. Tom Hanks stars as Finch, a robotics engineer and one of the few survivors of a cataclysmic solar event that has left the world a wasteland. But Finch, who has been living in an underground bunker for a decade, has built a world of his own that he shares with his dog, Goodyear. He creates a robot, played by Caleb Landry Jones, to watch over Goodyear when he no longer can. As the trio embarks on a perilous journey.”
11/5/2021. Fair reviews. TRDB.
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ALL IS FORGIVEN- 2007. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “A father and daughter reunite 11 years after the father’s drug addiction took control and tore their family apart.”
11/5/21- Just a few reviews and they are mixed. This movie is from 2007. TRDB.
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BEANS- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.”
11/5/21- Excellent reviews for this drama. TRDB.
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A COP MOVIE- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Following family tradition, Teresa and Montoya join the police force, only to find their convictions and hopes crushed by a dysfunctional system. Their emotional bond becomes a refuge for the hostility they are exposed to. Through a bold experiment of narrative and documentary storytelling, A Cop Movie propels the viewer into an unusual cinematic space, giving voice to one of Mexico’s most controversial institutions.”
11/5/21- Excellent reviews for this Spanish language drama. TRDB.
11/5/21- Boring and I turned it off. TRDB.
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THIS IS NOT A WAR STORY- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Timothy Reyes hustles through the NYC subway system. Oblivious passers-by don’t notice he is popping pills, fading, killing himself. Discovered dead on an empty train, no one knows him to be a combat veteran. His mentor, Will LaRue blames himself and wrestles with the guilt, and a resurgence of his own demons from war. His refuge: a multi-generational community of artist veterans, who make handmade paper out of military uniforms. Shredding them, pulverizing them — uniforms are reconstituted into paper, onto which the veterans express their rage, humor, memories, and hopes, in the form of art and poetry.”
11/5/21- Excellent reviews. TRDB.
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HIVE- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “HIVE is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije (Yllka Gashi), who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. In order to provide for her struggling family, she pulls together the other widows in her community to launch a business selling a local food product. Finding healing and solace in considering a future without their husbands–but their will to begin living independently is met with hostility. The men in the village condemn Fahrije’s efforts to empower herself and the women around her,”
11/5/21- Excellent reviews for this drama from Albania. TRDB.
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THE HARDER THEY FALL- 2021. “Synopsis by Netflix. “When outlaw Nat Love learns that the man who killed his parents, Rufus Buck, is getting out of prison, Nat assembles his former gang (including ex-love Stagecoach Mary) to exact revenge. But Rufus has a badass crew of his own.”
11/5/21- Very good reviews for this Western. TRDB.
11/5/21- I did not like this mish-mosh of a movie one bit. Too many bandits, too many gangs and nearly impossible to follow the action. TRDB
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