Intoxicating

‘Sinners’ review: Michael B. Jordan plays twins in an intoxicating Southern vampire flick

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‘Sinners’ review: Michael B. Jordan plays twins in an intoxicating Southern vampire flick

movie review SINNERS Running time: 137 minutes. Rated R (strong bloody violence, sexual content and language). In theaters. The South and vampires go together like wooden stakes and undead hearts.  Anne Rice put classy Lestat’s feeding grounds in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the trashy vamps of “True Blood” got steamy in the bayou nearby. The … Read more

Amsterdam Should Feel Intoxicating, But It’s Exhausting

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Amsterdam Should Feel Intoxicating, But It’s Exhausting

Whenever David O. Russell’s film is operating on an edge of uncertainty, it works. But the freewheeling freewheeling-ness grates. Photo: 20th Century Studios How we deal with our brokenness is the idea not so secretly at the center of most of David O. Russell’s films. In Amsterdam, he’s conjured up perhaps his most overt treatment … Read more