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Tag: luc besson

Posted inFilm Reviews

A Sudden End: ‘Lucy’ Is One of Those Rare Films That’s Too Short

by Bob Grimm July 31st, 2014December 16th, 2020

What starts out as a potentially great movie winds up being merely good. Scarlett Johansson stars as the title character in Lucy. She’s an American living in Taiwan who gets mixed up with the wrong people—and winds up not only as a drug mule, but a drug mule with a highly experimental drug placed inside […]

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Not All in ‘The Family’: De Niro and Pfeiffer Are Fine, but the Mafia-Comedy Script, Direction Let Them Down

by Bob Grimm September 19th, 2013December 16th, 2020

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