Kingsman: The Golden Circle
When a massive missile strike all but wipes out the Kingsman super-secret service, the lone surviving agent (Taron Egerton) and support tech (Mark Strong) investigate, leading them to Statesman, an allied American agency, and putting them all on the trail of a megalomaniacal, 1950s-nostalgic drug trafficker named Poppy (Julianne Moore) deep in the South American jungle. This sequel to 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service is even more enjoyable than the original—though like that fun-filled spy-fest, it could profit from trimming 15 or 20 minutes. The best news: Colin Firth’s Harry is back from the dead, and the Statesman staff includes Jeff Bridges, Halle Berry and Channing Tatum. Director Matthew Vaughn and his co-writer Jane Goldman expand on the Mark Miller/Dave Gibbons comic books in high style. J.L.
The story moves with the predictable monotony of a Swiss clock that cuckoos every five minutes, and cheap jokes and wasted actors abound.
Published on 09.28.17
Peter Bratt directs this passionate but by-the-numbers documentary about Dolores Huerta, the labor leader who helped form the nation’s first farm workers union in the 1960s.
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Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine; Ruby Sparks) direct this cardboard biopic about the nationally televised tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
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As usual with this kind of garbage, the only suspense comes from wondering who’ll get it next, and how.
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This is about as self-contained as a movie can get, but it’s also a stupendously tense, disturbing and powerful piece of filmmaking, with Darren Aronofsky in full command even as the world seems to spin off its axis.
Published on 09.28.17