Flaw In The Iris

The mystery is compelling enough at the start of The Woman in Cabin 10, says Carsten. But you'll need to dial your expectations down to zero:

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Jared Leto has talent, and can be good in the right role, says Carsten. But in Tron Ares he’s a dead pixel in the middle of the movie, his character preternaturally unlikeable:

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Kiss Of the Spider Woman's in-prison segments are as artificial and stagey as the musical numbers, says Carsten, which undermines any authentic political weight the film might carry. His review:

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This location has been used in films and series for more than 40 years, and Carsten wonders if you’ve seen it in other movies you’ve watched. Feel free to reach out if it’s familiar, and read more about it in his post:

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Roofman doesn’t go out of its way to portray its protagonist as heroic, or even as a Robin Hood kind of character, but it’s easy to see him in that light. He simply couldn’t do what society had set him up to do:

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NEW: Carsten Knox reviews Kiss Of The Spider Woman, with Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna, and Tonatiuh. J.Lo shines, not much else:

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Carsten says Tron Ares has got the required visual pop, the great score to tie it together, and a lot of moving parts, but even now it’s fading from the memory:

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NEW: What do The Dead Zone, Wayward, and Run The Wild Fields (and Schitt's Creek!) have in common? Ask Carsten Knox:

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Right off the bat, what makes Roofman so terrific is it’s another tale about America today, says Carsten — even as it’s set a few years in the past, there’s something undeniably current about this story:

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NEW: Carsten Knox reviews A House of Dynamite, with Rebecca Ferguson, Tracy Letts, and Idris Elba. Kathryn Bigelow's terrifically tense nuclear thriller:

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Some of Tron Ares is undeniably cool, says Carsten. But it's something processed, machine-crafted rather than made by people:

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NEW: Carsten Knox reviews Roofman, with Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, and Peter Dinklage. Tatum's gentleman thief is a charmer:

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While The Woman in Cabin 10 won’t be troubling any list of great shipboard thrillers, says Carsten, it could make for a passable hour and a half for an undemanding Netflix chiller:

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Now available on Crave: Confess Fletch, with Jon Hamm, John Slattery, and Roy Wood Jr. Procedural comedy FTW:

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NEW: Carsten Knox reviews The Woman in Cabin 10, with Keira Knightly, Hannah Waddingham, and Guy Pearce. Watery mystery quickly sinks:

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NEW: Carsten Knox reviews Tron Ares, with Jared Leto, Greta Lee, and Gillian Anderson. Greetings programs! What's the Error Code?

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Highest 2 Lowest isn't all fun and games, says Carsten. But it’s got Denzel Washington, as magnetic as he always is, Jeffrey Wright offering terrific support, and a late appearance by A$AP Rocky is welcome:

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The dystopian vision of The Long Walk is direct and to the point, says Carsten: We’re in an alternative America circa the 1970s, a few years after a war. The violence, when it comes, is bloody and graphic:

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As the truth of what’s actually going on at Bone Lake is revealed, it’s just so incredibly stupid the movie can only resort to obvious gore mode to bring the final act thrills. Carsten's review:

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The Smashing Machine deftly undermines some of the Rocky-adjacent sports movie tropes, while at the same time occasionally indulging in them. And it’s a pleasure to see Dwayne Johnson stretch, says Carsten:

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New on DVD/Blu-ray: F1 The Movie, with Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, and Kerry Condon. Carsten says Vroom Vroom:

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The Long Walk is not a perfect movie, and objectively is nowhere near as ambitious as One Battle After Another, but Carsten says it is potent in its simplicity. It stares into the abyss as the abyss stares back:

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NEW: Carsten Knox reviews All Of You, with Brett Goldstein, Imogen Poots, and Steven Cree. Scifi, romance, melodrama, tears:

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Paul Thomas Anderson has delivered a frequently exciting, gorgeous to see and hear, comedy thriller with One Battle After Another — he paints a vivid portrait of America as it is right now, says Carsten:

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Carsten Knox reviews Highest 2 Lowest, with Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, and A$AP Rocky. Spike Lee's hip-hop Kurosawa joint:

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Witness Bone Lake, says Carsten, aspiring to be a drama about sexual and relationship mores, with horror in its dark, ridiculous heart, and actors scrambling to connect the dots:

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The Smashing Machine explores that very American of concerns, says Carsten: winning at all costs. When winning is like a drug, what does that do to a person? And what happens that time he doesn’t win?

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NEW: Carsten Knox reviews The Long Walk, with Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, and Mark Hamill. Brutal, effective tale dares you to look away:

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Carsten Knox reviews One Battle After Another, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, and Regina Hall. Rebels without a pause:

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Carsten Knox reviews Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, with Dominic West, Hugh Bonneville, and Michelle Dockery. A fond farewell:

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