Reviews
Today’s consumers have more entertainment options than ever before thanks to technology and the explosion of new media outlets. That’s why Hollywood in Toto will help readers suss out the very best content across media. We all lead busy lives. Let’s consume only the highest quality movies, television shows and music with our limited leisure time.
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‘Canyonlands’ Buries B-Movie Fun with Dreary Third Act
“The Canyonlands” sets its creative sights low for much of its running time. The indie shocker traces genre formulas without…
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How ‘Waking Life’ Perfectly Captures Richard Linklater at His Best
Movies allow us to live vicariously through others, act as voyeurs and witness things we’d never see in real life.…
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Faith-Friendly ‘Vigil’ Knows When to Make Us Laugh, Cringe
“The Vigil” is an exercise in horror that effectively builds its character and narrative tensions in the first half only…
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‘Rush to Judgment’ Shames Media, Twitter … and Us
The opening seconds of “Rush to Judgment” might trigger segments of the viewing audience. It’s images of red hats, MAGA…
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Disney’s ‘White Fang’ – No CGI, All Heart
The Walt Disney Company has a history of making great films about animals, nature and the harsh realities of living…
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‘Raiders’ at 40: Indy Hasn’t Aged a Minute
Halfway through Steven Spielberg’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” Indiana Jones sneaks into the mythical map room and discovers the…
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How Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’ Invaded Our Dreams
The opening of David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” is a delirious jitterbug sequence, in which figures dance all over the screen.…
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Clunky ‘Paradise Cove’ Shows Folly of California’s Progressive Policies
Masochists will have a field day with “Paradise Cove.” The thriller stars a couple who suffer, and suffer, at every…
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How ‘Silence of the Lambs’ Shattered the Horror Movie Mold
Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs” introduces each of its main characters by showing them in their home or…
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How ‘Barton Fink’ Let the Coen Brothers Push Us to the Limit
Throughout “Barton Fink,” a film producer named Lipnick (Michael Lerner, in an Oscar-nominated turn) speaks of craving “that Barton Fink…
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