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The Caustic Grace of 'French Exit'


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Early in Azazel Jacobs’s film
French Exit, a “tragedy of manners” per its screenwriter Patrick DeWitt, who also wrote the novel it’s based on a character wistfully remarks, “They broke the mold with that one.” They’re referring to Frances Price, an elegant, aloof sixtysomething widow who sells off the last vestiges of her dead husband’s large estate and retires to Paris with her adult son, Malcolm. Yet they just as easily could be talking about Michelle Pfeiffer, the actress who plays Frances in the film and one of the great movie stars of the back half of the 20th century. From the early 1980s through the mid-’90s, Pfeiffer worked with som ....

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REEL REVIEWS: Eye-popping but repetitious effects in 'Godzilla vs. King'


GODZILLA VS. KONG
(in theaters and on HBO Max)
These monsters aka the alpha Titans somehow remain immortal, even after being attacked by every weapon mankind has to bear during many decades in moviedom. Nonetheless, they are back.
In filmmaker Adam Wingard’s sequel to “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” (2019), Kong resides in an artificially created jungle, “the Kong Containment Dome” on Skull Island where he is watched over by Dr. Ilene Andrews (Rebecca Hall) and her deaf adopted daughter Jia (Kaylee Hottle), who can communicate with Kong.
While Kong gets affection, ol’ spikey Godzilla lacks a winning personality and just shows up to create mayhem. ....

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