Female Film Critics 24/375
It’s hard to imagine a Johnny Depp film being ignored but that’s what happened after Minamata premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival back in 2020, when Covid shuttered most theaters. Depp plays renowned W.W.II photojournalist W. Eugene ‘Gene’ Smith, who, by 1971, had become a jaded recluse: broke, wasted, estranged from his children, and suffering from PTSD.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning South African author J.M. Coetzee has adapted his 1980 novel – a cautionary tale about the sins of colonialism – into a mediocre movie. Making his English language debut, Colombian director Ciro Guerra and cinematographer Chris Menges filmed in Morocco and Italy, lending an evocative cinematic authenticity to the bleakly generic drama about brutality by authorities.
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Leonard Maltin just tells it like it is, but with such heart and insight for viewers. So much so that
Read moreFor more than two decades, James “Whitey” Bulger (Johnny Depp) was South Boston’s criminal kingpin. His extraordinary power emanated from
Read moreBruce Robinson rewrites Hunter S. Thompson’s coming-of-age novel in the inebriated-buddy image of his Withnail and I, with wickedly quotable
Read moreAfter making millions as Capt. Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean,” Johnny Depp was entitled to a vanity project:
Read moreIs there a movie trendlet of classic stories where the sidekick is promoted to central figure?
Read moreReinventing the franchise for this fourth installment, that swaggering, swashbuckling rogue Jack Sparrow finds romance as he searches not only
Read moreJohnny Depp is set to play Nick in a “Thin Man” reboot. Why would you want to remake perfection? But
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