I Am Love

Movie Summary of I Am Love by Michael The Moviegoer. I AM LOVE = **1/2 “You Are What You Eat” Luca Guadagnino’s Italian saga “I Am Love” looks delicious on the plate, tastes like comfort food going down, but finally leaves an aftertaste of high fructose corn syrup. Tilda Swinton succeeds in tackling a role [...]

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Agora

Movie summary of Agora by Michael The Moviegoer. AGORA = ** “Sword And Sandal Philosophy” “Agora” is a sword-and-sandals historical epic which only comes to life, oddly enough, during the scenes between battles. Set in Alexandria, Egypt, nearly 400 years after the death of Christ, the story centers on Hypatia, a librarian and philosophy professor, [...]

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The Karate Kid

Movie summary of The Karate Kid by Michael The Moviegoer. THE KARATE KID (2010) = walk-out “Chop Suey” Disney used to theatrically re-release their classic films every seven years or so to attract a younger generation to them as new films. That was before home video made every film accessible to anyone at anytime. But [...]

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Solitary Man

Movie Summary of Solitary Man by Michael The Moviegoer. SOLITARY MAN = ***1/2 “A Philandering Philanthropist” At 60-years old, Michael Douglas’ character in “Solitary Man” is nearly as old as the Neil Diamond song this film takes its title from. When a routine doctor’s office visit suggests something might be wrong with his heart (an [...]

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Holy Rollers

Movie Summary of Holy Rollers by Michael The Moviegoer. HOLY ROLLERS = ** “High Holy Days” It should be easy to make an exciting thriller about Brooklyn orthodox Jews secretly working as international drug smugglers. Unfortunately, “Holy Rollers” is not that movie. Instead, it’s a version of that movie shot in a dark, grainy, choppy [...]

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Get Him To The Greek

Movie Summary of Get Him To The Greek by Michael The Moviegoer. GET HIM TO THE GREEK = ***1/2 “Brand Awareness” Those of you who follow my movie reviews already know that I’m not a fan of sequels. If a movie title ends with a number, it’s probably not very good. That’s because sequels generally [...]

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Splice

Movie Summary of the movie Splice by Michael The Moviegoer. SPLICE = **1/2 “Genre-Splicing” Once upon a time there were great science fiction movies AND great horror movies. In 1979 Ridley Scott perfectly mated these two genres and the offspring was the classic original “Alien”. Vincenzo Natali’s “Splice” starts out as great sci-fi, but quickly [...]

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Mother and Child

Movie Summary of Mother and Child by Michael The Moviegoer. MOTHER AND CHILD = **** “Reunions” The extraordinary adoption drama “Mother And Child” will leave you haunted by your own could-have-beens, might-have-beens and what ifs, just as these characters must deal with their own bittersweet consequences of unplanned pregnancies. The richly-layered multiple storylines intersect in [...]

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Please Give

Movie Summary of Please Give by Michael The Moviegoer. PLEASE GIVE = ** “Giving Up” I have a theory that a comfort zone develops between actors and directors who work together too often. It causes their performances to feel phoned-in. Because the directors and actors are friends in real life, they may not even notice [...]

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City Island

Movie Summary of City Island by Michael The Moviegoer. CITY ISLAND = ***1/2 “Relation-Shipwrecks” “City Island” is something like “Treasure Island” in that we discover real gems of comedic performances by actors we’ve only known before from dramas. Julianna Margulies and Andy Garcia are simply hilarious as a blue-collar married couple raising their kids in [...]

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