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Offstage, host Emma Thompson is more hilarious than her Late Night show, but the film has other problems

Joyce Glasser reviews Late Night (June 7, 2019), Cert. 15, 101 min. Emma Thompson (The Remains of the Day, Howard’s End) elevates every film she is in to a slightly higher plane, especially those that ...

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Julianne Moore carries the film, but it’s a pale copy of the 2013 Gloria

Joyce Glasser reviews Gloria Bell (June 7, 2019), Cert. 15, 101 min. It is a commercial reality that every so often a talented co-writer/director remakes his or her original film in the English langua ...

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This no holds barred sequel to 2014’s entertaining Godzilla might bring out the monster in you

Joyce Glasser reviews Godzilla: King of the Monsters (May 29, 2019), Cert. 12A, 131 min. Two of the West’s biggest Japanese imports are kaijū, a genre featuring giant monsters attacking big cities and ...

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Jim Cummings’ tour de force performance is a knock-out, even if he is wearing too many hats

Joyce Glasser reviews Thunder Road (May 31, 2019), Cert. 15, 91 min. The first 12 minutes of Jim Cummings’ first feature film, Thunder Road, are almost identical to a 12-minute short film he made in 2 ...

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