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baltimoresun.com | Michael Phillips
Most comics-derived superhero movies really wouldn't be much of anything without buried rage, and what happens when it won't stay buried. Their stories' relentless emphasis on childhood trauma and the crippling psychological load carried by broken souls (heroes and villains both) - that's the whole show.
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troyrecord.com | Michael Phillips
‘Thunderbolts*’ review: Tormented superheroes in the first pretty-good Marvel movie in a while Florence Pugh leads a crew of scrappy misfits. It's a familiar premise, "Suicide Squad" did the same thing, but here it works.
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thedailynewsonline.com | Michael Phillips
You’ll find out in the first 10 minutes whether “The Legend of Ochi” is working for you. Me? I was in by minute five, and stayed there, even with some bumps along the way. Movies steeped in fantasy and existing or newly hatched folklore can whip up anything and everything, usually digitally, which often erases half of the potential visual magic. Anything’s possible, but not everything’s advisable. The writer-director Isaiah Saxon, making a strong feature debut here, knows this and proves it.
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thelcn.com | Michael Phillips
You’ll find out in the first 10 minutes whether “The Legend of Ochi” is working for you. Me? I was in by minute five, and stayed there, even with some bumps along the way. Movies steeped in fantasy and existing or newly hatched folklore can whip up anything and everything, usually digitally, which often erases half of the potential visual magic. Anything’s possible, but not everything’s advisable. The writer-director Isaiah Saxon, making a strong feature debut here, knows this and proves it.
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thebrunswicknews.com | Michael Phillips
By Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Puccini's struggling poets and dreamers had their Parisian Latin Quarter in "La Bohème," which begat "Rent" a century later, with its Lower East Side New York squatters singing of pricey, boutique Santa Fe, for some reason. The real world tells myriad stories of similar artistic spirits, finding a place to call their own. For example:
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