ReelBob: Catching Up: ‘Barbie,’ ‘Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3’ & ‘Asteroid City’

By Bob Bloom “Barbie” (PG-13) ★★★★ Greta Gerwig’s smart and witty satire of gender roles, expectations and politics had it from its opening Stanley Kubrick-“2001: […]

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ReelBob: ‘Tales of Babylon’ ★★★

By Bob Bloom “Tales of Babylon” begins with Martin (Phil Tomlin), a chubby, bespectacled young man bullied by neighborhood toughs, his boss and obnoxious customers. […]

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ReelBob: ‘Oppenheimer’ ★★★★

By Bob Bloom Twice in “Oppenheimer,” Cillian Murphy’s physicist quotes a piece of Hindu scripture from the Bhagavad-Gita, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer […]

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ReelBob: ‘Blood for Dust’ ★★★

By Bob Bloom From beginning to end, an aura of menace and despair looms heavily over “Blood for Dust.” The film opens with a suicide […]

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