Watch List Weekly Recap 7/14/23
This week: A perfect little indie film, a big honking Tom Cruise blockbuster, a doc on Negro League baseball, and more.
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Good Movies 📽
One Good Film: "The Fits" (2016)
Ty Burr • Jul 10, 2023
It's one of those rare movies you experience in a haze of its own happening – I did, anyway – because Holmer and her lead actress never stoop to explain the drama. They simply let it unfold with a subtextual clarity that provides its own form of exhilaration: You get what’s happening at the same time Toni does.
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Good Movies 📽
Review: "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One"
Ty Burr • Jul 12, 2023
I once described Cruise as possessing “maximum charisma with minimum depth,” and that’s the secret to Teflon Tom, what he does that no other star does, which is exist in the nanosecond of filmed action and nowhere else. He’s a persona without a backstory.
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Good Movies 📽
What to Watch on VOD: "The League"
Ty Burr • Jul 14, 2023
Plus: "Johnny Mnemonic: In Black and White," Happy birthday Ingmar Bergman, Hollywood on strike, and more.
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