The Cinema Touch

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

The Films of 2017

203 Films

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***

BPM (Beats Per Minute)

Call Me by Your Name

The Florida Project

A Quiet Passion

**

Battle of the Sexes

Blade Runner 2049

The Breadwinner

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

The Disaster Artist

Happy Death Day

John Wick: Chapter 2

Last Flag Flying

The Lego Batman Movie

The Lost City of Z

Lucky

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

My Happy Family

Personal Shopper

Person to Person

Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

War for the Planet of the Apes

*

Alien: Covenant

All the Money in the World

Annabelle: Creation

Beach Rats

Beatriz at Dinner

Brawl in Cell Block 99

Cat Fight

Felicite

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

First They Killed My Father

The Foreigner

47 Meters Down

Gerald's Game

The Girl with All the Gifts

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Icarus

Ingrid Goes West

It Comes at Night

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Kong: Skull Island

Lady Macbeth

The Lego Ninjago Movie

The Lure

Meagan Levy

Menashe

My Cousin Rachel

Our Souls at Night

The Queen of Spain

The Shape of Water

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Strong Island

To the Bone

Truman

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Victoria and Abdul

Wilson

Woodshock

NO STARS

Alone in Berlin

A Bad Moms Christmas

Beauty and the Beast

The Belko Experiment

Better Watch Out

Blind

The Book of Henry

Bright

The Bye Bye Man

The Circle

Crown Heights

A Cure for Wellness

Despicable Me 3

A Dog's Purpose

The Emoji Movie

Everything, Everything

The Fate of the Furious

Fifty Shades Darker

Fist Fight

Friend Request

Fun Mom Dinner

Ghost in the Shell

Gifted

Goodbye Christopher Robbin

Goon: Last of the Enforcers

The Greatest Showman

The Great Wall

Hampstead

The Hitman's Bodyguard

Home Again

It's Only the End of the World

Just Getting Started

Kidnap

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

The Last Word

LBJ

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Marshall

The Mountain Between Us

Murder on the Orient Express

The Only Living Boy in New York

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Pitch Perfect 3

Pottersville

Rings

Same Kind of Different as Me

Sandy Wexler

The Secret Scripture

The Sense of an Ending

Sleepless

The Space Between Us

Transformers: The Last Knight

Tulip Fever

Underwold: Blood Wars

Unforgettable

A United Kingdom

The Void

XXX: Return of Xander Cage

The Zookeeper's Wife

Crisp Criticism - "Kong: Skull Island", "Alone in Berlin", "Before I Fall", "A Cure for Wellness"

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Julien Faddoul

Kong: Skull Island *

A team of scientists explore an uncharted island in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong, and must fight to escape a primal Eden.

Some stunning visual effects and a lively performance or two can’t compensate for another big-budget remake on autopilot, following the same beats and falling into the same cynical trappings as others of its ilk.

d – Jordan Vogt-Roberts

w – Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein, Derek Connolly, John Gatins

ph – Larry Fong

pd – Stefan Dechant

m – Henry Jackman

ed – Richard Pearson

cos – Mary E. Vogt

p – Alex Garcia, Jon Jashni, Mary Parent

Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly, Terry Notary, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, John Goodman, Thomas Mann, Shea Whigham, John Ortiz

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Crisp Criticism - "Logan", "Miss Sloane", "Wiener-Dog", "Three", "Silence"

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Julien Faddoul

Logan **

In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan’s attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.

Psychotically violent, and altogether emphatically R-rated conclusion of the Wolverine franchise, exploring themes of retirement and withdrawal. Much of the action is dynamically staged (with a clear inspiration being the critical success of Mad Max: Fury Road). Jackman cements his creation as probably the most extensively weighty of the modern-day superhero portrayals.

d – James Mangold

w – Scott Frank, James Mangold, Michael Green

ph – John Mathieson

pd – François Audouy

m – Marco Beltrami

ed – Michael McCusker

cos – Daniel Orlandi

p – Hutch Parker, Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg

Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Richard E. Grant, Doris Morgado, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Eriq La Salle, Elise Neal

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