Simon Crowe in Mostly Movies

Mar 22, 2016

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Some Thoughts on My First Murakami Novel

I’ve just finished reading Norwegian Wood by the acclaimed Japanese novelist Haruki…

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Simon Crowe in Mostly Movies

Dec 11, 2016

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Miss Sloane

Miss Sloane would like you to know that lobbying is a blood sport, a winner-take-all affair in which tactics trump ideas and those who…

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Simon Crowe in Mostly Movies

Jan 16, 2016

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The Revenant

The Revenant is a film made with the high craft and serious intentions of an Oscar contender which also traffics in some awfully musty…

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Simon Crowe in Mostly Movies

Nov 20, 2016

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Moonlight

The word “normalize” has been much in play in our cultural conversation lately, whether in reference to gross personal behavior, extreme…

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Simon Crowe in Mostly Movies

Jan 2, 2016

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The Big Short

The Big Short is a terrifically angry film, and it is also a necessary one. Adam McKay’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book about the…

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Simon Crowe in Mostly Movies

Jan 9, 2016

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The Hateful Eight

If you are old enough to have started thinking critically about movies in the early 1990’s, then there’s a decent chance that…

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Simon Crowe in Mostly Movies

Nov 13, 2016

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Arrival

Arrival is a splendidly restrained science fiction film, one that in fact may not become as successful as it deserves to be because of the…

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Simon Crowe in Mostly Movies

Mar 12, 2016

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10 Cloverfield Lane

10 Cloverfield Lane is J.J. Abrams playing with us and doing it well. When the trailer appeared online a couple of months…

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Simon Crowe in Mostly Movies

Feb 6, 2016

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Hail, Caesar!

If your favorite Coen Brothers’ films are the early ones, the ones that got knocked for choosing dark screwball humor over characters…

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Simon Crowe in Mostly Movies

Mar 5, 2016

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

The word “resources” gets used several times in the new Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa…

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