Sean Means

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How do you know when you’ve met “the one”? In dating, as with movies like filmmaker Celine Song’s luminous comedy-drama “Materialists,” it depends a lot on chemistry — and even more on dropping the facades and being emotionally honest and true. Meet Lucy, played by Dakota Johnson, who works for Adore Matchmaking, where she specializes in finding the perfect romantic match for her clients.

2 weeks ago | moviecricket.net | Sean Means

It’s been 15 years since DreamWorks made one of their best animated movies, “How to Train Your Dragon” — and now, some of the same players have teamed up to make a live-action version that opens up the seemingly endless debate of what is gained by doing with human actors what already has been done so well with pixels and paint.

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The filmmaker Mike Flanagan may be one of the more creative people working in the horror and suspense realms today — and you only need to look at his work with Stephen King’s “Doctor Sleep” or his Netflix miniseries, like “The Haunting of Hill House” or “The Fall of the House of Usher,” to see the genius at work. So why is the ambitious “The Life of Chuck,” which Flanagan wrote and directed off of a King short story, feel like a cleverly conceived misfire?

2 weeks ago | moviecricket.net | Sean Means

In politics as in documentary filmmaking, access is everything — and “Prime Minister” directors Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz get extraordinary access and use it to create a fascinating, emotional portrait of former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The main narrative runs from 2017, when Ardern suddenly ascended to the leadership of New Zealand’s Labour Party, just two months before a general election, to her somewhat surprise resignation in 2023.