Kung Fu Panda 4: After 15 Years, Jack Black's Po Stubbornly Won't Tap Out
By Chris Knight
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Loses Female Protagonist (and Its Appeal)
ReviewJim SlotekThe Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Suzanne Collins, Francis Lawrence, Viola Davis, Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Franchise, Post-apocalyptic thrillers, young adult novels, young adult
Air: An Inspirational Commercial for a Commercial? Shut Up and Take My Money!
ReviewJim SlotekNike Air Jordans, Air, Ben Affleck, Billion dollar sports merchandising, Michael Jordan, Matt Damon, Viola Davis, Phil Knight, Chris Tucker, Jason Bateman
The Woman King: 'African Amazons' Tale Treads Lightly on History and Hard on Action
The Unforgivable: Sandra Bullock Vehicle Not Unwatchable but Not Great
ReviewJim SlotekThe Unforgivable, Nora Fingscheidt, BBC Adaptation, Sandra Bullock, Viola Davis, Richard Thomas, Jon Bernthal, Vincent D’Onofrio, Drama, Netflix films
The Suicide Squad: James Gunn Recharges the DC Franchise as a Nihilistic Orgy of Brightly Coloured Gore and Violence
Original-Cin Year In Review: 2020’s Best and Worst Movies
By Original-Cin Staff
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Views, Review, PreviewJim SlotekBest of 2020, Worst of 2020, Nomadland, Frances McDormand, Chloe Zhao, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Martin Eden, Luca Marinell, Donbass, David Byrne’s American Utopia, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Bacurau, Lovers Rock, Mangrove, Steve McQueen, Minari, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Charlie Kaufman, Mank, David Fincher, The Kid Detective, Color Out Of Space, Rocks, Another Round, Hope Gap, Collective, Beanpole, Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal, Critic's Picks, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, The Personal History of David Copperfield
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: Rumours of Chadwick Boseman's superb final act are bittersweetly true
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekMa Rainey’s Black Bottom, Plays by August Wilson, Actors' final performances, Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Movies about blues legends, Mother of the Blues, Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman, Michael Potts, Pittsburgh Cycle, Denzel Washington, Fences, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, George C. Wolfe
Your Weekend Film Round-up: What to See (And Skip) In The Theatres
ReviewJim SlotekWidows, Steve McQueen, Viola Davis, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Coen Brothers, Peter Farrelly, Green Book, Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen, The Front Runner, Hugh Jackman, Jason Reitman, Private War, Marie Colvin, Rosamund Pike, Touched, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Instant Family
Widows: Director McQueen goes popcorn, but social politics still pops up
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekWidows, Steve McQueen, Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Lynda La Plante, Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects, Daniel Kaluuya, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Heist movies, Female action movies
