{"id":28940,"date":"2022-12-03T10:08:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T10:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/?p=28940"},"modified":"2022-12-03T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T10:29:52","slug":"film-reviews-927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/?p=28940","title":{"rendered":"FILM REVIEWS #927"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>DECEMBER 1, 2022-<\/div>\n<div>DEAR FRIENDS&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>QUICK LOOK AT MY FAVORITES OF THE WEEK-<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1)<strong> SHE SAID<\/strong>&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2) <strong>WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING-<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>_________________________________________________________________________________<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>MOVIES I SAW THIS WEEK-<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>1)<strong> SHE SAID<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a02022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. &#8220;Two-time Academy Award\u00ae nominee Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, An Education) and Zoe Kazan (The Plot Against America limited series, The Big Sick) star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke one of the most important stories in a generation&#8211;a story that helped propel the #Metoo movement, shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood and altered American culture forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: 400; color: #333333; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">11\/20\/22-<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">\u00a0Good reviews. TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: 400; color: #333333; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">11\/27\/22-<strong> Very well done and I enjoyed the movie.<\/strong> <strong>TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: 400; color: #333333; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">2)\u00a0 <strong>WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING<\/strong>&#8211; 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. &#8220;From the best-selling novel comes a captivating mystery. Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: 400; color: #333333; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">12\/1\/22-\u00a0<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">Poor reviews from the critics and very good ones from audiences. TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: 400; color: #333333; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">12\/1\/22- <strong>I thought it was just OK. TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>_________________________________________________________________________________<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>NEW MOVIES IN THEATERS AND\/OR STREAMING-<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>1)<strong> WHITE NOISE<\/strong>&#8211; 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. &#8220;At once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, White Noise dramatizes a contemporary American family&#8217;s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: 400; color: #333333; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">11\/27\/22-<strong>\u00a0Fair reviews from the critics and excellent ones from audiences. TRDB. <\/strong>In Theaters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>2) <strong>ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a02022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. &#8220;Directed by Academy Award\u00ae-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: 400; color: #333333; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">11\/27\/22-<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">\u00a0Excellent reviews for this documentary. TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>3)<strong> DEVOTION<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a02022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. &#8220;Devotion, an aerial war epic based on the bestselling book of the same name, tells the harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy&#8217;s most celebrated wingmen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: 400; color: #333333; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">11\/27\/22-\u00a0<strong>Good reviews by the critics and excellent reviews from audiences. TRDB. <\/strong>In Theaters and Vudu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>4) &#8211;<strong>THE CORRIDORS OF POWER<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a02022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. &#8220;Political heavyweights help build a picture of how America has responded to reports of genocide, war crimes and mass atrocities as the only global superpower after the fall of the Soviet Union.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: 400; color: #333333; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">11\/27\/22-\u00a0<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">Just 3 reviews and they are excellent. TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>5) \u00a0<strong>THE SWIMMERS<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a02022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. &#8220;Based on a true story, THE SWIMMERS follows the journey from war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics. Two young sisters embark on a harrowing journey as refugees, putting both their hearts and champion swimming skills to heroic use.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: 400; color: #333333; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">11\/27\/22-<strong>\u00a0Fairly good reviews for this drama. TRDB. <\/strong>Netflix<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>6)<strong> NANNY<\/strong>&#8211; 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. &#8220;In this psychological horror fable of displacement, Aisha (Anna Diop), a woman who recently emigrated from Senegal, is hired to care for the daughter of an affluent couple (Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Spector) living in New York City. Haunted by the absence of the young son she left behind, Aisha hopes her new job will afford her the chance to bring him to the U.S., but becomes increasingly unsettled by the family&#8217;s volatile home life. As his arrival approaches, a violent presence begins to invade both her dreams and her reality, threatening the American dream she is painstakingly piecing together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: 400; color: #333333; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">11\/27\/22-\u00a0<strong>Excellent reviews by the critics and OK reviews from audiences. TRDB. <\/strong>Amazon Studios<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SKIP THESE-<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1) <strong>THE NOEL DIARY<\/strong>&#8211; Weak reviews<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2)\u00a0<strong> THE SON<\/strong>&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3)\u00a0 <strong>THE SOUND OF CHRISTMAS<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>_____________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>MOVIES SHOWING IN WESTCHESTER Co NY AND FAIRFIELD Co CT-<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1) JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER IN PLEASANTVILLE NY<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2) AMC THEATER IN DANBURY, CT<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>a)<strong> DEVOTION<\/strong>&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>b) <strong>THE MENU<\/strong>&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>c)<strong> THE FABELMANS<\/strong>&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>_____________________________________________________________________<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>MOVIES SHOWING IN PALM BEACH Co. FL<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1) THE MOVIES OF LAKE WORTH- (Wed.&#8211;Sun)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>a) <strong>UPHEAVAL: THE JOURNEY OF MENACHEM BEGIN<\/strong>&#8211; 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. &#8220;Jailed in a Soviet gulag before the war and scarred by loss in the Holocaust, Menachem Begin is remembered as one of Israel&#8217;s most democratic prime ministers for defending Jewish immigration and signing an historic peace accord with Egypt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: 400; color: #333333; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">12\/3\/22-\u00a0<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">Just 4 reviews for this documentary&#8211; 3 are very good and 1 is fair. TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>b) <strong>DEVOTION-<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>c)<strong> SHE SAID<\/strong>&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>d) <strong>THE MENU<\/strong>&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>e)<strong> SALVATORE<\/strong>&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2) THE MOVIES OF DELRAY-\u00a0 (Wed.&#8211;Sun)- SAME AS LAKE WORTH<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3) THE LIVING ROOM THEATERS AT FAU IN BOCA RATON-<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>a)<strong> DECISION TO LEAVE<\/strong>&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>b) <strong>MEMORIES OF MY FATHER<\/strong>&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>c) <strong>SALVATORE<\/strong>&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>d) <strong>THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a02022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. &#8220;An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: 400; color: #333333; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">11\/30\/22-<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">\u00a0Excellent reviews for this drama. TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>e) <strong>THE MENU<\/strong>&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>4) THE STONZEK THEATER IN DOWNTOWN LAKE WORTH- Not available at this time<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>ENJOY!!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>THE REEL DR. BOB<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>_________________________________________________________________________________<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DECEMBER 1, 2022- DEAR FRIENDS&#8221; QUICK LOOK AT MY FAVORITES OF THE WEEK- 1) SHE SAID&#8211; 2) WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING- _________________________________________________________________________________ MOVIES I SAW THIS WEEK- 1) SHE SAID&#8211;\u00a02022. 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