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Movie Review: Margin Call

Posted on August 1, 2026 by Lawrence Person

Title: Margin Call Director: J.C. Chandor Writer: J.C. Chandor Starring: Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Stanley Tucci, Demi Moore, Mary McDonnell A movie scene that came up in my YouTube feed was a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Best Years Of Our Lives

Posted on May 25, 2026 by Lawrence Person

Title: The Best Years of Our Lives Director: William Wyler Writers: Robert E. Sherwood, MacKinlay Kantor (novel) Starring: Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Harold Russell, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O’Donnell, Hoagy Carmichael For Memorial Day, Independence Day and … Continue reading →

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Critical Drinker On Snow White: “Even Worse Than I Expected”

Posted on March 23, 2025 by Lawrence Person

After years of train wreck anticipation, Disney’s live-action Snow White has finally opened to notably tepid business, earning a projected $45 million in box office, which puts it on par with the disasterous 2019 Dumbo remake. Inevitably, the Critical Drinker … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Oppenheimer

Posted on August 7, 2023 by Lawrence Person

Title: Oppenheimer Director: Christopher Nolan Writers: Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird, Martin Sherwin Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Jason Clarke, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Alden Ehrenreich I finally saw Oppenheimer, and if you have an interest … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Beast

Posted on September 4, 2022 by Lawrence Person

As I did with Fury, here’s a review of another movie that follows a tank crew driving deep into enemy territory. But instead of an American Sherman driving deep into Germany in 1945, it’s a Soviet T-55 taking a wrong … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: United 93

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Lawrence Person

United 93 Directed by Paul Greengrass Written by Paul Greengrass Starring David Alan Basche, Olivia Thirlby, Liza Colon-Zayas, J.J. Johnson, Gary Commock, Trish Gates I finally saw United 93 for the first time yesterday. So let’s get this out of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Bridge on the River Kwai

Posted on May 30, 2021 by Lawrence Person

The Bridge on the River Kwai Directed by: David Lean Written by: Pierre Boulle (novel), Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson (screenplay) Starring: Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald I usually save movie reviews for my other … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Fury

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Lawrence Person

Yesterday’s post featured Sherman tanks facing Panzers on the Golan Heights in 1967, so let’s do a review of a movie about a Sherman tank crew late in World War II to make it an All Sherman Tank Weekend, because … Continue reading →

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John Simon, RIP

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Lawrence Person

Via Dwight comes word that movie and theater critic John Simon has died. I found Simon an extremely valuable movie critic for National Review, because he seemed to hate 90+% of all movies. That meant you couldn’t take a negative … Continue reading →

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P. J. O’Rourke on the Atlas Shrugged Movie

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Lawrence Person

Some people have asked me if I’ll be reviewing the Atlas Shrugged movie, since one of my gigs is reviewing science fiction movies, and Ayn Rand’s original novel certainly qualifies as science fiction. (I’m also familiar enough with the novel … Continue reading →

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