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Movie reviews by an experienced movie critic and member of the Critics Choice Association
Drew Moniot
3 days ago4 min read
Review: "2001: A Space Odyssey in 2025"
A recent screening of "2001: A Space Odyssey" is a testament to the timelessness of this Kubrick classic.
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Drew Moniot
3 days ago4 min read
Review: "The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie"
Warner Brother’s first ever animated feature fails to be either looney or funny.
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Drew Moniot
3 days ago4 min read
Review: "2001: A Space Odyssey in 2025"
A recent screening of "2001: A Space Odyssey" is a testament to the timelessness of this Kubrick classic.
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Drew Moniot
3 days ago4 min read
Review: "The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie"
Warner Brother’s first ever animated feature fails to be either looney or funny.
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Drew Moniot
6 days ago3 min read
Review: "Black Bag"
A very cerebral spy film heavy on characters and dialogue and light on action and thrills.
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Drew Moniot
Mar 113 min read
Review: "Novocaine"
A man incapable of feeling pain and a graphically violent action/comedy not for the squeamish.
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Drew Moniot
Mar 83 min read
Review: "Mickey 17"
Robert Pattinson stars in this mind-bending, sci-fi tale about an “expendable” spaceman in the year 2054.
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Drew Moniot
Mar 43 min read
Review: "Riff Raff"
A dark comedy with a very slow start, a shocker of a final reel and a gratuitous end scene that spoils everything before it.
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Drew Moniot
Feb 262 min read
Review: 'Dog Man'
Former SNL cast members like Pete Davidson add to the zany fun in Peter Hastings’s movie adaptation.
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Drew Moniot
Feb 243 min read
Review: "Love Hurts"
Everybody is Kung Fu Fighting in this Valentine’s Day movie that is big on violence and blood and light on romance.
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Drew Moniot
Feb 203 min read
Review: "Captain America: Brave New World"
A mixed bag with dazzling effects sequences interspersed with lengthy, pace-killing dialog. Fans don’t seem to mind.
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Drew Moniot
Feb 153 min read
Review: "Companion"
A spectacular blend of sci-fi and film noir not to be missed.
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Drew Moniot
Feb 133 min read
Review: "Paddington in Peru"
A fun, family-friendly adventure.
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Drew Moniot
Feb 23 min read
Hannibal Lecter and Me: Revisiting My Role as an Extra in "The Silence of the Lambs"
I was an extra in an Oscar-winning film shot in Pittsburgh!
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Drew Moniot
Feb 13 min read
Review: "Presence"
A contemporary ghost tale that is all about Steven Soderbergh’s gliding Steadicam camera work and less about a satisfying, scary story.
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Drew Moniot
Jan 233 min read
Review: 'The Room Next Door'
The powerful story of a female friendship and the decisions that are faced when one of them is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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Drew Moniot
Jan 203 min read
Review: 'Anora'
A steamy, sexy modern-day Cinderella story about a free-spirited escort and the fun-loving son of a Russian oligarch.
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Drew Moniot
Jan 123 min read
Review: 'Den of Thieves 2: Pantera'
A slow-paced, largely uneventful heist movie with Gerard Butler doing his best Mel Gibson 'Lethal Weapon' look-alike impersonation.
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Drew Moniot
Jan 83 min read
Review: 'The Substance'
Flash and trash and very little about substance.
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Drew Moniot
Dec 29, 20243 min read
Movie: 'Mufasa'
A technical triumph of digital animation and entertaining prequel to the blockbuster 'Lion King' saga that fans can roar about.
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Drew Moniot
Dec 27, 20243 min read
Review: 'The Brutalist'
A three-and-a-half hour modern epic about a genius, Jewish architect struggling to find a new life in America following WWII.
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