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Movie reviews by an experienced movie critic and member of the Critics Choice Association
Review: "The Alto Knights"
For the first time in his career, Robert De Niro plays two characters -- real-life, crime bosses--in the same movie.
Drew Moniot
2 hours ago3 min read
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Review: "Snow White"
Disney’s live action remake is shaping up to be the box office disaster that everyone predicted,
Drew Moniot
2 days ago3 min read
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Review: "The Alto Knights"
For the first time in his career, Robert De Niro plays two characters -- real-life, crime bosses--in the same movie.
Drew Moniot
2 hours ago3 min read
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Review: "Snow White"
Disney’s live action remake is shaping up to be the box office disaster that everyone predicted,
Drew Moniot
2 days ago3 min read
14 views
0 comments
Review: "2001: A Space Odyssey in 2025"
A recent screening of "2001: A Space Odyssey" is a testament to the timelessness of this Kubrick classic.
Drew Moniot
Mar 164 min read
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Review: "The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie"
Warner Brother’s first ever animated feature fails to be either looney or funny.
Drew Moniot
Mar 164 min read
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Review: "Black Bag"
A very cerebral spy film heavy on characters and dialogue and light on action and thrills.
Drew Moniot
Mar 133 min read
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Review: "Novocaine"
A man incapable of feeling pain and a graphically violent action/comedy not for the squeamish.
Drew Moniot
Mar 113 min read
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Review: "Mickey 17"
Robert Pattinson stars in this mind-bending, sci-fi tale about an “expendable” spaceman in the year 2054.
Drew Moniot
Mar 83 min read
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Review: "Riff Raff"
A dark comedy with a very slow start, a shocker of a final reel and a gratuitous end scene that spoils everything before it.
Drew Moniot
Mar 43 min read
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Review: 'Dog Man'
Former SNL cast members like Pete Davidson add to the zany fun in Peter Hastings’s movie adaptation.
Drew Moniot
Feb 262 min read
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Review: "Love Hurts"
Everybody is Kung Fu Fighting in this Valentine’s Day movie that is big on violence and blood and light on romance.
Drew Moniot
Feb 243 min read
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Review: "Captain America: Brave New World"
A mixed bag with dazzling effects sequences interspersed with lengthy, pace-killing dialog. Fans don’t seem to mind.
Drew Moniot
Feb 203 min read
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Review: "Companion"
A spectacular blend of sci-fi and film noir not to be missed.
Drew Moniot
Feb 153 min read
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Review: "Paddington in Peru"
A fun, family-friendly adventure.
Drew Moniot
Feb 133 min read
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Hannibal Lecter and Me: Revisiting My Role as an Extra in "The Silence of the Lambs"
I was an extra in an Oscar-winning film shot in Pittsburgh!
Drew Moniot
Feb 23 min read
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Review: "Presence"
A contemporary ghost tale that is all about Steven Soderbergh’s gliding Steadicam camera work and less about a satisfying, scary story.
Drew Moniot
Feb 13 min read
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Review: 'Flight Risk'
A bumpy ride at best.
Drew Moniot
Jan 303 min read
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Review: 'The Room Next Door'
The powerful story of a female friendship and the decisions that are faced when one of them is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Drew Moniot
Jan 233 min read
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Review: 'Anora'
A steamy, sexy modern-day Cinderella story about a free-spirited escort and the fun-loving son of a Russian oligarch.
Drew Moniot
Jan 203 min read
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Review: 'Den of Thieves 2: Pantera'
A slow-paced, largely uneventful heist movie with Gerard Butler doing his best Mel Gibson 'Lethal Weapon' look-alike impersonation.
Drew Moniot
Jan 123 min read
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Review: 'The Substance'
Flash and trash and very little about substance.
Drew Moniot
Jan 83 min read
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