ReelBob: ‘The Night Before’
By Bob Bloom “The Night Before” opens with a promising premise that quickly descends into the usual comic holiday cacophony of lowbrow, banal and tedious […]
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Tomlin outstanding as ‘Grandma’
By Bob Bloom Lily Tomlin is rambunctious, pugnacious, cynical, aggressive, profane, vulnerable and lovable in screenwriter-director Paul Weitz’s “Grandma.” The film takes place over a […]
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Shyamalan visits road to cinematic recovery
By Bob Bloom M. Night Shyamalan is up to his parlor tricks again with “The Visit.” The story is simplicity itself: Two children who have […]
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Gerwig stands out in engaging ‘Mistress America’
By Bob Bloom Greta Gerwig’s Brooke Cardenas in “Mistress America” is a rude, immature and self-obsessed woman-child who is her own publicist and number-one fan. […]
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