Sean Means
Culture Editor at The Salt Lake Tribune
Culture editor for https://t.co/BxsqjLixE9. Old pro at @sundancefest. Movie reviews at https://t.co/KpEp2ZrG1y, and on @RadioFromHell, Fridays at 7 a.m. He/him.
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moviecricket.net | Sean Means
The thriller “Drop” is a fast-paced nail-biter that shows again that Christopher Landon — the guy who directed “Happy Death Day” and “Freaky” — is the master of thrillers whose basic premise can be written on a cocktail napkin. Meet Violet (Meghann Fahy) a widow, whose late husband, Blake (Michael Shea, seen in flashbacks) was physically and emotionally abusive. Now she’s a therapist, specializing in helping women who were abused like her.
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moviecricket.net | Sean Means
I’ve never served in the military or seen combat close-up, so I can’t say definitively that writer-directors Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland put viewers in the middle of the fray in their movie “Warfare” — but they create moments of chaos, blood and pain that are as close as I or any other civilian likely will want to be to the fight. Mendoza served in a Navy SEAL sniper unit during the Iraq War, and the story told here is based on his memory of that time in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2006.
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moviecricket.net | Sean Means
The spy thriller “The Amateur” takes the old saying “revenge is a dish best served cold” to extremes — as its coldness keeps us from getting to know or feel for star Rami Malek’s vengeance-seeking character. Malek plays Charlie Heller, a super-nerdy computer expert who works in the deepest depths of the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia. He’s happily married to Sarah (Rachel Brosnahan), and gives her warm hugs and kisses as she heads off to a business trip to London.
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moviecricket.net | Sean Means
Director Kevin MacDonald’s documentary “One to One: John & Yoko” pinpoints a crucial passage in the shared lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono — a time when the ex-Beatle was feeling his way through the applications of his fame, and relying on his wife and artistic collaborator as his north star. It’s 1971, and Lennon and Ono have just moved from London to a tiny two-bedroom apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village.
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moviecricket.net | Sean Means
I don’t remember my old parish priest saying that the story of Jesus needed an adorable cat — but that’s one of the extraneous frills in “The King of Kings,” a computer-animated account from the Gospels that interrupts the telling of Christ’s story with too much comic relief aimed at keeping the little viewers invested.
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