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EXPOSING MUYBRIDGE – Review by Diane Carson

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Director Marc Shaffer begins his documentary Exposing Muybridge with a succession of Eadweard Muybridge film, history, museum, and photography experts giving one-word descriptions of this complicated, multi-talented man. They suggest: tricky, eccentric, duplicitous, temperamental, volatile, mischievous, and “God or the devil, probably both.” Shaffer proceeds in the next eighty-eight minutes to offer details substantiating each attribute, describing several events less than complimentary to Muybridge. This significant historical figure proves as elusive as he is imposing.

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SLOW HORSES – Review by Diane Carson

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Numerous films, not least the James Bond collection, and television programs have championed the sterling reputation of Britain’s MI5 agents. And so it seems inevitable and quite right that, given current attitudes, the incomparable espionage enterprise gets revisited in Slow Horses through a stunningly incompetent group of agents whose punishment involves reassignment to Slough House, a shabby site away from the true professionals.

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CRISIS – Review by Susan Granger

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Writer/director Nicholas Jarecki’s dramatic thriller revolves around three aspects of the opioid Crisis. There’s architect/single mother Claire Reimann (Evangeline Lilly), who is recovering from an Oxycodone addition when her 16 year-old hockey-playing son suspiciously disappears and she discovers he’s tragically involved in drug-smuggling operation.

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THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW – Review by Susan Granger

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Occasionally, there’s a book-to-film adaptation that is an utter disaster. Netflix’ The Woman in the Window is one. Based on A.J. Finn’s 2018 best-seller, it’s set on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the huge home of Anna Fox (Amy Adams), a child psychologist who became agoraphobic after a traumatic accident.

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MANK – Review by Diane Carson

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Articles, books, and films have interrogated the creation of director/co-writer Orson Welles’ iconic 1941 Citizen Kane. Director David Fincher’s Netflix film Mank won’t settle any arguments given its clichéd treatment of Hollywood luminaries, with name dropping replacing complex development. Here’s the essence of this take on the troubled attribution of Kane’s screenplay.

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MARY – Review by Liz Whittemore

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Mary brings sea-faring scares but might be a sinking ship. Genuinely frightening visual moments and a fantastically effective score by The Newton Brothers add to the atmosphere of terror. What I was missing is the clarification between the siren legend and missing children specifically. Sirens tend to temp sailors to their death, while adding in an entirely separate curse aspect into the story feels a bit muddled.

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