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By A.O. Scott

Oct. 14, 2010

If you are in the mood to revisit some of the bad movies of last summer — there was no shortage — then “RED” may be just the ticket. You might even say that this movie, directed by Robert Schwentke and based on the comic books created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, represents a do-over, a moderately successful attempt to restore the entertainment potential of two much-abused genres.

Part of “RED” is an action-romance-comedy more or less along the lines of “Knight and Day,” the misbegotten Cameron Diaz-Tom Cruise caper from June that a lot of people wished had been better, a few people liked, and the vast majority did not see. Mary-Louise Parker takes the role of the bored singleton whose life is turned upside-down, endangered, saved and finally transformed by her entanglement with a man whose professional existence is full of danger.

In this case Mr. Danger is Bruce Willis, a mellow, weary, retired C.I.A. super-assassin (or something) named Frank Moses, who flirts on the phone with Sarah (Ms. Parker), a customer-service representative at the office that processes his pension checks.

A squad of killers shows up at Frank’s house in Cleveland just as he is about to head to Kansas City to meet Sarah, who now has no choice but to run off with her new beau and protector. Some first date, though she admits she’s had worse. She spends some of it gagged with duct tape and handcuffed to a bed (though not for sexual purposes: t his isn’t Showtime , it’s a PG-13 movie).

And then, as a high-level conspiracy to end Frank’s retirement slowly reveals itself, it’s time for genre No. 2. As soon as Morgan Freeman shows up, and before he utters a predictable line about “getting the band back together,” “RED” signals that, in addition to being an action-romance-comedy, it will also be an old-timers-on-the-warpath-looking-for-payback movie. (See “The A Team” and “The Expendables.” By “see,” I mean “note for purposes of comparison,” rather than actually watch on a screen.)

And before you know it, Mr. Willis and Mr. Freeman are joined by John Malkovich, Brian Cox and Helen Mirren. They all go and visit Richard Dreyfuss. Ernest Borgnine makes a few brief appearances.

“RED”— the title is an acronym for “retired and extremely dangerous”— demonstrates that casting is to a certain type of movie what location is to real estate. The story is not much, and the action sequences are the usual thudding, scrambling displays of heavy weaponry and physically improbable derring-do.

The designated villain is a bureaucrat in a suit (Karl Urban), quite a bit younger than the good guys (he calls Mr. Willis “grandpa”), and he and his boss (Rebecca Pidgeon) have at their command an inexhaustible supply of heavily armed and armored fighters. The outgunned retirees dispose of them without much trouble, while unraveling a conspiracy that involves war crimes in Guatemala, a fictional vice president of the United States and some other stuff that is explained, or not, in due course.

None of it is the least bit interesting, but it does serve as an excuse for Mr. Willis to exercise the soulful gallantry that is the default acting style of his maturity. Mr. Malkovich is more energetic in the role of designated kook, his wildest flights of paranoia borne out by events and his nerdy eccentricities decorated with interesting grace notes of infantile sadism. At one point he carries around a fluffy pink toy pig, an almost redundant symbol of his own hammy tendencies.

But the tastiest charcuterie is served by Ms. Mirren and Mr. Cox, who plays a former K.G.B. man languishing in vodka-soaked post-cold-war tedium. Ms. Mirren’s Victoria is a grandmotherly type plucked from a life of baking and flower arranging to help Frank and the others, and Mr. Cox’s Ivan is her former adversary, and also her former lover. The two of them lift “RED” intermittently into the realm of a Blake Edwards farce , importing a worldly, wised-up absurdity into the blunt and boisterous proceedings.

Blunt and boisterous win the day, of course, as they must. It is possible to have a good time at “RED,” but it is not a very good movie. It doesn’t really try to be, and given the present state of the Hollywood economy, this may be a wise choice. A clever, stylish, surprising caper, made with more wit than noise, would be a risky undertaking, and — explosions and gunfights notwithstanding — risk is the last thing on this movie’s mind.

“RED” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Lots of violence without much blood, and some fairly tame swearing.

Opens on Friday nationwide.

Directed by Robert Schwentke; written by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, based on the graphic novels by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner; director of photography, Florian Ballhause; edited by Thom Noble; music by Christophe Beck; production design by Alec Hammond; costumes by Susan Lyall; produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian; released by Summit Entertainment and DC Comics. Running time: 1 hour 51 minutes.

WITH: Bruce Willis (Frank Moses), Morgan Freeman (Joe Matheson), John Malkovich (Marvin Boggs), Helen Mirren (Victoria), Karl Urban (William Cooper), Mary-Louise Parker (Sarah Ross), Brian Cox (Ivan Simonov), Julian McMahon (Robert Stanton), Rebecca Pidgeon (Cynthia Wilkes), Ernest Borgnine (Henry, the Records Keeper), James Remar (Gabriel Singer), Robert Morse (Interrogator) and Richard Dreyfuss (Alexander Dunning).

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Movie Review: Red (2010)

Mariusz Zubrowski
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--> October 16, 2010

“You just got your ass handed to you by a goddamn retiree.”

This one quote pretty much sums up all there is to know about director Robert Schwentke’s latest film Red (an acronym for “Retired Extremely Dangerous”), which features an all-star cast that consists of Bruce Willis and Mary-Louise Parker in the lead and Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, and Helen Mirren as major supporting characters. Contrary to the likes of other action-comedies that were released earlier this year ( Date Night and Knight and Day are two films that come to mind), Red , which has been adapted for the big-screen by screenwriters Jon and Erich Hoeber (it was first a three-part comic book mini-series), not only churns out high-octane action but also never switches focus from its characters and the performers who play said characters. It’s for this reason that the film remains slick.

And so the long-running juxtaposition between work and retirement begins with Frank Moses (Willis) waking up (as usual), taking his medication, getting dressed, working out, collecting bills, and decorating his home for what seems to be a subtle competition between neighbors, who have their houses decked out in Christmas décor. Set to music that you’d expect from an upbeat indie drama, Moses calls the pension office, which has been a tradition for him, not because he wants his check in the mail, but because he has started a long-distance friendship with one of the employees named Sarah Ross (Parker). The two indulge in casual conversation with Ross asking Moses if he’s ever been to Chile, but that all comes to a halt when he drops the magic words — “I’m going to be in Kansas City.” The phone call ends in awkwardness since that is where Ross lives and works.

However, things are never that simple in Red . In the middle of the night, a small squad of armed intruders (equipped with ski masks and night vision goggles) silently, yet ineffectively, try to take Moses’ life. Unfortunately for them, it only takes a couple seconds, in thanks to the trusty bait n’ lure method, to simultaneously take them all out. Methodically, he throws a couple bullets into a frying pan and mixes it with some boiling oil and uses this time to arm himself against his attackers, who remain stationed outside his home. Of course, he escapes unharmed, but is now faced with the burden of knowing that someone is after him. Undaunted, he breaks into Ross’ house and takes her hostage in an attempt to keep her safe from the forces at work, and seeks to reassemble his former military-issued team which has now been metamorphosed into a group of idiosyncratic retirees.

The key component to the enjoyability of Red is its cast of fully-developed characters (there’s one exception but I’ll get to that later) which for the most part, are performed masterfully by their respective actors/actresses. Willis and Louise are excellent leads and it’s nice to see Willis in a comedic role that doesn’t suck. There’s also a surprisingly amount of romantic chemistry between the two and Louise should be commended for not allowing her character to become bothersome.

But Mirren, Freeman, and Malkovich are the real gems in this film. Mirren exerts the sophistication of her character, Victoria, who contributes a womanly touch to the team. Make no mistake about it though; Victoria is a dangerous one, often sporting a sniper rifle or a semi-automatic and being an expert with either. Freeman displays the courage of his character, Joe Matheson, a resident as Greensprings Rest Home and a sufferer of stage-four liver cancer (he also happens to be the tactical side of the team), with just the right mix of vulnerability and strength. Lastly there’s Malkovich, who plays Marvin Boggs, a character whose paranoia (a side effect of a secret mind control test in which Boggs was given LSD for years) adds instability to the team. Not only does he live in an underground chamber but he also carries a grenade launcher neatly tucked inside a pink pig that he carries around. Malkovich almost channels his performance as Lennie in Gary Sinise’s opus Of Mice and Men .

The weakest link has to be Karl Urban. His character, William Cooper, who is presented as the misguided CIA agent assigned to the case of capturing Moses, isn’t quite as developed as all of the other characters, in fact, Cooper seems criminally neglected.

The interesting thing about Red is the fact that every act seems different — yet it works as one. The first act mainly focuses on comedy while the second act takes a darker approach — often delving into the idea of detaching yourself from your work and how difficult it is to adapt to another lifestyle within moments. The third act just explodes into a beautiful display of discharged firearms and downed enemies. However, moments of pure, unadulterated thrill are plentiful throughout. Not to spoil too much, let me just say that one of the better scenes pits Boggs in a Mexican standoff armed with only a pistol, against a foe with a loaded RPG.

The funktastic soundtrack is an added bonus.

Will Red win any Oscars? Hell no, but Schwentke’s latest is sure to entertain all of you whippersnappers looking for an entertaining action-comedy flick.

Eventually I'll put something nifty here. Until then, know that I'm watching you. Closely.

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'Movie Review: Red (2010)' have 4 comments

October 17, 2010 @ 4:16 am Bev

Mar – I follow your reviews and see this is where you are writing now, I guess. I don’t understand your rating. You give Mirren high marks but then the film gets just a … well, is that a Hershey’s kiss or what I think it might be?

October 17, 2010 @ 3:09 pm Mariusz Zubrowski

Hey Bev, the Critical Critics has a rating system in which one star is the best rating (there’s a conversion chart to the side).

October 21, 2010 @ 11:11 am Savanna

You won’t find a drop of realism in this movie but it was a lot of fun to watch!

October 21, 2010 @ 8:40 pm Jeson

Nice movie dudes, i like willis.

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Well-cast action comedy is entertaining -- but very violent.

A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

The movie's message -- that senior citizens are st

Sarah trusts Frank enough to help him uncover the

Lots of violence and a high body count. Once the p

Hand-holding, a couple of passionate kisses and em

Words like "s--t," "bitch," and "a--hole" are used

Mostly cars like Volvo and and the Chevy Tahoe, as

Adult characters drink socially and do shots of vo

Positive Messages

The movie's message -- that senior citizens are still vibrant and useful -- is a worthwhile take-away in our youth-obsessed culture. Although there are some obvious conspiracy-theory messages about defense contractor firms and the government, overall the story is about retirees you wouldn't want to mess with. On the downside, the way that Frank and Sarah's relationship starts (with him drugging and abducting her -- with the goal being to rescue her) is pretty iffy.

Positive Role Models

Sarah trusts Frank enough to help him uncover the truth. Frank embarks on a fact-finding mission to clear his name and save himself and his friends from being murdered; another character selflessly agrees to sacrifice himself to ensure that the mission can go forward. Marvin overcomes his fears to join the RED team.

Violence & Scariness

Lots of violence and a high body count. Once the protagonist is first ambushed, barely a scene passes in which people aren't trying to kill or not be killed. People are shot to death, blown up (quite vividly), stabbed, hanged, and burned. Severed fingers are shown, and a couple of scenes include bloodied characters (especially when shot) and heavily bruised ones. Weapons include everything from everyday office supplies to rocket-propelled guns, and you'd probably need a military background to identify everything in between.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

Hand-holding, a couple of passionate kisses and embraces, and one early scene in which a female character undresses down to her slip. One character stares at a woman's bottom. Two characters' romantic relationship begins when one ties the other up and drugs her as part of a rescue.

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Words like "s--t," "bitch," and "a--hole" are used infrequently; one "f--k." Also "hell," "damn," "ass," "goddamn," and "oh my God."

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Products & Purchases

Mostly cars like Volvo and and the Chevy Tahoe, as well as an older Chevrolet sedan.

Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

Adult characters drink socially and do shots of vodka in a couple of scenes. There's also a reference to the many years that Marvin was given LSD as part of a military experiment. One character drugs another as part of an abduction/rescue -- the drugged character makes a reference to feeling "high" when she wakes up.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that while this graphic novel-based action comedy is rated PG-13, its violence -- which is comparable to movies like Casino Royale and The Bourne Identity (also PG-13s) definitely approaches R-rated levels of intensity. The action sequences may be accompanied by plenty of laughs, but the body count is high and the weapons military-grade. On the plus side, there's no overt sexuality, and the language is standard issue for the rating ("s--t," "bitch," "a--hole," etc.). Teens will also take away the positive message that senior citizens can still "kick butt"; it's good for kids to realize that the elderly aren't all meek and frail -- most of them had long (and in this case exciting) careers before they retired. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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A movie for old people with perverted, meaningless lives. Hugely disappointing.

An generic action/comedy movie with lots of guns and shooting, what's the story.

Retired black-ops agent Frank Moses ( Bruce Willis ) routinely calls into the government's pension office specifically to talk to customer-service rep Sarah ( Mary-Louise Parker ), who handles his account. Just as he's preparing to visit her, Frank is ambushed by a hit team -- but he goes to see her anyway, in case whoever's following him is onto her. He ends up having to tie her up to rescue her -- and then goes to his old friend/fellow agent, Joe ( Morgan Freeman ), for help. After uncovering a hit list of agents who all worked on a particularly sensitive op, Frank and Sarah enlist fellow retirees Marvin ( John Malkovich ) and Victoria ( Helen Mirren ) to join their team of RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous) agents to track down the higher-ups who've ordered the killings. Meanwhile, they must also evade ambitious CIA agent Wiliam Cooper ( Karl Urban ), who's in charge of eliminating Moses and his crew.

Is It Any Good?

Willis and the gang are clearly having a blast playing off of each other. Parker has remarkable comic timing, infusing lines like "Well I was hoping you'd have hair" (to Willis) with a style that actresses half her age can't muster. Mirren is equally as delightful, lobbing zingers like "If you hurt him, I'll kill you and bury your body in the woods" so well that you don't know whether to cringe or laugh. And when Malkovich asks, "Can I kill him now ?" it's like an impatient small child pleading for his dessert, and the resulting humor is infectious. The supporting cast does well, too. Brian Cox , one of those chameleonic actors who can play a Russian spy in Red as easily as King Lear, always adds value to an ensemble, and he doesn't disappoint. And Urban, who was Dr. McCoy in Star Trek , should be cast in action films more often. He's got a steely look and a powerful charisma that works whether he's straight-laced as in Red or bad-boy like The Bourne Supremacy . But he's the young 'un, and this movie definitely belongs to the over-55 actors, all of whom prove that with age comes a mastery of craft that, with the right script is, as Sarah would say, "awesome."

Unlike the rough-and-tumble stars of ensemble action movie The Expendable s (which Willis graced with a small cameo), all of Willis' retired secret-op friends in RED are played by Academy Award winners or nominees. That makes a huge difference in the expectation and delivery of performances. It's unthinkable that Jason Statham or Dolph Lundgren would take on Shakespearean adaptations, but within context of this movie, Malkovich, Freeman, and even Mirren are all quite believable as government operatives who've spent their careers tracking down and assassinating people. How wonderful that a movie in which the youngest actor, Urban, is 38, and the oldest, Ernest Borgnine , is 93, could be so thrilling and funny that you never once miss the busty or hunky eye-candy that usually appears in action films.

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Families can talk about the movie's violence . Does the humor that accompanies it affect its impact? How does it compare to the violence in other action movies you've seen?

What are the movie's messages about romance, adventure, and loneliness? What do you think of the way that Frank and Sarah's relationship starts?

What major differences are there between Red and other action movies? Is it just the age of the cast?

How do the "retirees" defy stereotypes in this movie? Does it make you rethink how you treat senior citizens?

Movie Details

In theaters : October 15, 2010
On DVD or streaming : January 25, 2011
Cast : Bruce Willis , Helen Mirren , John Malkovich , Morgan Freeman
Director : Robert Schwentke
Inclusion Information : Female actors, Black actors
Studio : Summit Entertainment
Genre : Action/Adventure
Run time : 111 minutes
MPAA rating : PG-13
MPAA explanation : intense sequences of action violence and brief strong language
Last updated : December 15, 2023

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(BB, PP, C, ACap, LL, VV, A, DD, M) Strong moral worldview with some strong patriotic content in plot about the CIA being used for a political cover-up but the average CIA agent is the good guy not the bad guy, family is extolled and Christmas is referenced, but the positive worldview is minimized by some questionable elements such as threats from lead good guy trying to get a CIA agent to believe his story and vaguely anti-capitalist subplot where defense contractor is an illegal arms dealer; 17 obscenities (including a few “h” words, three “s” words and one “f” word), five strong profanities (one borderline) and three light profanities; plenty of strong action violence includes men with guns shoot up house and car, some bad guys get shot dead or wounded, intense gunfights where nobody gets shot dead, villain gets a karate chop to the throat but we never learn if the guy was killed or not, a villain deliberately shot by one of his own, explosions, grenade blows up man in a fiery ball of flame, a family is threatened verbally; no sex scenes or lewd behavior; no nudity; alcohol use; no smoking but it is mentioned that one character was forced to be part of a government LSD experiment years ago, woman is put to sleep by a drug and a villain with a syringe is put to sleep or killed by the syringe himself in a fight; and, man lies so he can have an excuse to keep phoning a woman he likes, wealthy business owner tries to sell arms illegally to a man posing as an African despot, good guys break into CIA headquarters to get classified information to find out who’s trying to assassinate them and ending implies another CIA cover-up may be needed to clean up a mess caused by some evil conspirators.

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RED is the hottest action flick of the year. It has a fun plot with engaging characters and plenty of winsome humor and intense shoot-em-up action. There are some problems, however, so media-wisdom is advised.

Bruce Willis stars as Frank Moses, a retired black-ops CIA agent living a quiet life alone in Cleveland (the movie’s title is actually an acronym meaning “Retired, Extremely Dangerous”). To pass the time of day, Frank tears up his retirement checks so he can telephone a pretty government worker in Kansas City named Sarah (played by Mary-Louise Parker). Eventually, he arranges a meeting with her there.

Before Frank can leave for Kansas City, however, a hi-tech foreign hit squad shows up at his house with machine guns blazing. Frank dispatches them post haste and rushes to protect Sarah because he assumes his phone calls to her were tapped. With Sarah in tow, Frank reassembles his old team in a fight for survival. They have to break into the CIA to find out why some of them are being targeted for assassination by people in the government.

RED has a lot of winsome, oddball humor. At one point, for example, Frank has to tie up Sarah and tape her mouth so he can have time to convince her that the people trying to kill him will likely try to kill her too. She doesn’t buy his story at first, and she angrily tries to give Frank a piece of her mind while her mouth’s taped. Also, one of Frank’s old team members, Marvin (played by John Malkovich), is a super-paranoid, sarcastic guy who wants to shoot first and ask questions later. So, Frank has to keep talking him down from the edge. In one scene, Marvin grabs a chubby middle-aged woman walking behind them outside an airport and threatens her with a gun for following them. Frank forces Marvin to let her go. Later, of course, it’s revealed that the woman actually was indeed part of the hit team trying to kill them, and she and Marvin face off in a gunfight, but her gun is a rocket launcher.

All this humor mixed with red-hot action scenes makes a perfect vehicle for Bruce Willis, who turns in another entertaining performance. Bruce’s supporting cast is filled with many talented veterans, including not only the aforementioned John Malkovich and Mary-Louise Parker, but also Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Richard Dreyfuss, Karl Urban of STAR TREK and THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and the great Ernest Borgnine. The plot lags only a little bit just before the third act, but things pick up pretty quickly for the movie’s final showdown.

There’s some strong foul language in RED, however, as well as plenty of action violence, explosions, and shoot-outs. Also, although the good guys are trying to clear their names and stop a conspiracy, they sometimes use questionable means to succeed, including murderous threats, kidnapping and shooting at Secret Service agents protecting a high government official who happens to be one of the villains. Their ultimate intention, however, is not to hurt anyone, including the Secret Service agents, and to protect innocent people, like the hero’s new girlfriend, Sarah. In the end, things turn out okay, though there’s an implication that another CIA cover-up of some sort might be necessary.

All in all, RED is one of the most entertaining pictures of the year. Viewers should exercise media-wise caution, however, for the movie’s more questionable, objectionable elements.

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Red Parent Guide

The average age of this all-star cast makes it unlikely that most teens or even young adults will be rushing out to catch this movie. yet older audiences might appreciate this action adventure..

Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is seeing red. The retired black-ops agent is the target of an assassin, and he's determined to find out who is behind the attack. Calling for help from his former co-workers (Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich), he begins a volatile investigation.

Release date October 15, 2010

Run Time: 112 minutes

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The guide to our grades, parent movie review by kerry bennett.

It seems that putting spies out to pasture is one thing. But ridding them of their lust for action is another. While most of the retired agents in Red attempt to adapt to civilian life, it is often an unsuccessful struggle. Still Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) tries. He’s even fallen in love with a mousy cubicle worker in the agency’s payroll department. And each month when his paycheck from the U.S. Government arrives in his mailbox, he calls into the office with a complaint as an excuse to talk to Sarah Ross (Mary-Louise Parker).

But his transition to a normal existence is interrupted when he discovers someone has put a price on his head. Not knowing who or why, he recognizes that Sarah’s life may be in danger as well because of their frequent phone calls. Though he’s never met her face-to-face, he slips into her apartment, kidnaps her and then takes her on a wild road trip where they meet up with three of his former cohorts, Joe Matheson (Morgan Freeman), Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren).

Based on the comic book Red , this film adaptation (which takes several liberties with the original story) may be disappointing to fans of the series. As well, the average age of this all-star cast makes it unlikely that most teens or even young adults will be rushing out to catch this movie. Yet older audiences (those who can stomach the violence and often unbelievable stunts pulled off by these more mature characters) might appreciate this action adventure. At least they’ll see veteran actors having a great time playing characters who demand the respect their years of service deserve.

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Why is Red rated PG-13? Red is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for intense sequences of action violence and brief strong language.

Violence: Characters in this film are shot, blown up, beaten and frequently threatened with weapons. A man attacks and kills three intruders, one with an apparently lethal injection. He later kills a large group of men by booby-trapping his home. A woman is kidnapped and tied up. Government agents later capture and interrogate her. A man is hanged. A character is given an envelope of severed fingers. A bloody crime scene is shown. A number of characters suffer bloody injuries. Two men engage in a brutal fistfight and both receive serious injuries. Characters are tasered.

Sexual Content: A woman comments about her sexual orientation. Couples embrace and kiss infrequently. A woman wears a low cut top. Brief, mild sexual comments are made.

Language: The script includes a strong sexual expletive used in a nonsexual context and crude hand gesture, along with over two-dozen vulgarities, some scatological slang and terms of Deity.

Alcohol / Drug Use: Comments are made about a man who was repeatedly subjected to illegal drugs during a government experiment. Characters drink socially on several occasions.

Other: One character bemoans the fact that he hasn’t killed anyone for years. A poster of a pinup girl is seen in a government building. A cracking sound is heard when a character has a dislocated bone put back in place.

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Red Parents' Guide

One character comments that some things become less important as he grows older. What things have become more or less important for you over time? Why do we often view things differently with age?

What adjustments come with retirement? How can a person prepare for this time?

What does this story say about the importance of older people? Do you think this segment of society is undervalued? What does this group have to offer?

The most recent home video release of Red movie is January 24, 2011. Here are some details…

Red: Special Edition releases to DVD and Blu-ray on January 24, 2011, with the following bonus extras:

- Deleted and Extended Scenes

- Access Red: Immersive 6-part interactive feature including pop up trivia, videos, interviews and more

- CIA Exposed

- Audio Commentary with retired CIA Field Officer Robert Baer

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Red Island review – beauty and colonialism in a French childhood in Madagascar

This visually exquisite, tender film about a boy growing up in a military air base on an former colony is a wonderful watch

F ilm-maker Robin Campillo has surrendered to the flow of memory and given us this wonderful, personal movie, created with tenderness, unsentimental artistry and visual flair, inspired by his own childhood growing up on a French army base in recently independent Madagascar in the early 1970s. It is the story of an imaginative little kid spying and eavesdropping on the private lives of grownups, which are a mystery to him and a mystery to the grownups, too. Red Island elides his own poignant growing pains with Madagascar’s emergence from the infantilised colonial state. It feels like a classic depiction of childhood on film.

Twelve years after its establishment as an independent republic in 1960, Madagascar still permits the presence of the French army to assist the national authorities. This has clearly become a plum posting for France’s military personnel: an island paradise (far more pleasant in their eyes than Algeria or Morocco) in which the actual business of governing, the heavy lifting of what Kipling called the white man’s burden, has effectively been passed on to the former imperial subjects.

The French army officers are left with a fair bit of time to spend with their wives and children at enjoyable parties, barbecues and beach trips, and to flirt with other people’s spouses; a bit of a White Mischief atmosphere, in fact, combined with a little of Stepford for those new young wives on base who are not yet accustomed to how things work. Military professionalism and alertness is mixed with erotic languor and boredom. Robert (Quim Gutiérrez) is the alpha male in his group, married to Colette (Nadia Tereszkiewicz); their bright, watchful little eight-year-old son Thomas (Charlie Vauselle) is always hiding in corners or under the dining table, peeping at things he doesn’t understand – getting little glimpses, fragments, vignettes of grownup existence. He doesn’t get to be a go-between, or intervene in any meaningful way in their lives, but when he’s not spying, he’s reading about Fantômette, the superhero, whose adventures are dramatised in dreamlike inserts. Actually dressing up as this masked crime-fighter is to trigger a mysterious, almost occult change in the weather.

Little Thomas gets a best friend, a Vietnamese girl called Suzanne (Cathy Pham), and together they roam far afield, on foot or on bikes, with that weightless freedom of childhood. They venture into the very strange bamboo Lovers’ Wood, a shadowy place where couples are to be seen kissing – it is forbidden love that is presented to them everywhere. Thomas is to be the intimate witness to the marital breakdown of a new young couple on base, Bernard (Hugues Delamarlière) and Odile (Luna Carpiaux). Robert hosts a boozy get-together at which Thomas gazes through the mottled glass in a door, and Campillo makes the swarming, fragmented glass images very like the design of an aragonite table which Robert has recently bought. (Despite his machismo, Robert has an eye for design and décor and actually designs a ring for his wife with two gemstones his son buys from a travelling salesman.)

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Nettled at his wife dancing with someone else, Robert dances suggestively with Odile. Does this obscurely cause a crisis? Perhaps. Bernard is to have a breakdown, caused by heavy drinking (he collapses at a grand party given for the general, a fascinating scene) and he has a scandalous affair with Miangaly (Amely Rakotoarimalala), a woman from the brothel near the base. To return to the Kiplingesque British idiom, Bernard has gone native, and the existence of this flaunted liaison challenges the hypocrisy and racism that is never far from the surface. Staggeringly, Bernard is made to undergo an exorcism by the worldly, weatherbeaten priest on base, Père Bertin (Vincent Schmitt); this casting out of demons is actually a casting-in of neuroses, a huge groupthink nervous breakdown on the part of the white officer class.

There are glorious setpieces; perhaps especially Robert’s rash decision to buy three baby crocodiles and give them to his children. But the family’s time at the island is to come to an end; a strange epochal moment comes when Thomas dresses up in the homemade Fantômette costume that his mother makes for him and appears directly to Miangaly as the crime-fighting avenger. This ushers in a new section of the film featuring the insurgent, confident Malagasy people themselves. Red Island might be compared to Albert Serra’s Pacifiction – a cheese dream of French imperial tristesse – but without the self-indulgence. It’s a compelling, visually exquisite piece of work.

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Red Notice (English) Movie Review: RED NOTICE is a paisa vasool entertainer that rests on the writing, direction and the star power and able performances.

Red notice is a paisa vasool entertainer that rests on the writing, direction and the star power and able performances of dwayne johnson, ryan reynolds and gal gadot., red notice (english) review {3.5/5} & review rating.

RED NOTICE is the story of an officer trying to catch an art thief. Special Agent John Heartley (Dwayne Johnson) of the FBI reaches Rome along with his Interpol colleague Inspector Urvashi Das (Ritu Arya). They straight away head to a renowned museum in the Italian city and inform the management that a priceless artefact, Cleopatra’s Egg, is about to be stolen. The manager rubbishes off the claims. This is when John Heartley realizes that he’s late and that the artefact has already been stolen by the world-renowned art thief, Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds). John manages to track him down in Bali. He arrests him and also retrieves the Egg from Nolan. Unknown to John, The Bishop (Gal Gadot) infiltrates into the Interpol commando team that had arrived to arrest Nolan. She smartly replaces Cleopatra’s Egg with a fake and escapes with the real artefact. She also manages to wire millions of dollars into John’s account. Hence, Inspector Das is convinced that John is behind the robbery. She gets him arrested and he’s sent to a prison in Russia where his cell mate is none other than Nolan. Both want to desperately escape the prison. While John wants to prove his innocence, Nolan wants to steal the second Cleopatra’s Egg which is kept in the residence of an arms dealer Sotto Voce (Chris Diamantopoulos) in Valencia. Sotto has used extensive security features and hence, stealing the Egg from there is next to impossible. John and Nolan escape from the jail, team up and manage to infiltrate into the room where the Egg is stored. But as luck would have it, Bishop arrives there, determined to steal the Egg and also steal the thunder from the duo once again. What happens next forms the rest of the film.

Rawson Marshall Thurber's story has all the trappings of a commercial entertainer. It’ll also give a déjà vu of DHOOM 2 [2006] to the Indian audiences. Rawson Marshall Thurber's screenplay is entertaining and doesn’t have a single dull moment. There’s laughter or action in most scenes. A couple of scenes are emotional but even these have been treated in a light-hearted manner. However, this is a mindless caper and hence, the logic goes out of the window. Also, each act follows a template and hence by the time the film reaches the pre-climax, it becomes predictable to an extent. Rawson Marshall Thurber's dialogues are hilarious and one of the strengths of the film. The ones mouthed by Ryan Reynolds especially bring the house down.

Rawson Marshall Thurber's direction is supreme. He doesn’t waste time and incorporates a lot in just 115 minutes of run time. How the narrative jumps from Rome to Bali to Russia to Valencia, etc is seen to be believed. But what works the best is the unusual chemistry shared by the three actors. The trio is at loggerheads and yet share some sort of chemistry and this is a very unique aspect of this film. On the flipside, several sequences are very convenient and viewers would have to understand that there’s no logic to what’s unfolding on the screen. Also, the way the film reaches the finale, one expects fireworks. However, the ending is abrupt with the promise of a sequel. This might be disappointing for a section of viewers.

RED NOTICE’s intro scene and opening credits are stylishly done and set the mood. The madness at the Rome sequence is funny and thrilling. The Bali sequence is surprising as one doesn’t expect John to catch Nolan so soon. The prison sequence is hilarious and the manner in which John and Nolan escape is nail-biting. The best part of the first half and even the film is reserved in the Valencia episode when John and Nolan fight off the Bishop. Post-interval, the bullfight sequence raises laughs. The pre-climax and climax are entertaining but also slightly predictable although the twist in the tale does catch you unawares. The finale is sudden and one doesn’t expect the film to get over so soon.

Speaking of performances, all the three main actors have brought in the star power and have done really well. Dwayne Johnson is apt for such a part. His comic timing and his action add to the fun and he also doesn’t attempt to overpower the other two actors. Ryan Reynolds is too good and gets the best lines in the film. His character is a bit child-like and yet again, he attempts to ensure that his act stands out, like the way he did in the recently released film FREE GUY. He also gets to do his share of action although his comic quotient is more memorable. Gal Gadot is stunning and gives yet another memorable performance. She has less screen time than the two male actors but compensates for it with her acting prowess, action and the oomph factor that she brings to the film. Ritu Arya puts on a confident act. Chris Diamantopoulos is decent.

Steve Jablonsky's music is cinematic and has an adventurous feel. Markus Förderer's cinematography is breathtaking and the way he has taken the long shots in a novel style enhances the impact. Andy Nicholson's production design is first-rate. Mary E Vogt's costumes are very rich and treat to the eyes, especially the ones worn by Gal Gadot. VFX matches global standards. The action is not at all disturbing and goes with the family-friendly genre of the film. It is also smartly and entertainingly choreographed. Julian Clarke and Michael L. Sale's editing is quite slick.

On the whole, RED NOTICE is a paisa vasool entertainer that rests on the writing, direction and the star power and able performances of Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot. Had it been released in cinemas, it would have been a huge grosser.

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Turning Red

2022, Kids & family/Comedy, 1h 40m

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In "Turning Red", Mei Lee is a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. And as if changes to her interests, relationships, and body weren't enough, whenever she gets too excited (which for a teenager is practically ALWAYS), she "poofs" into a giant red panda!

Rating: PG (Suggestive Content|Language|Thematic Material)

Genre: Kids & family, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation

Original Language: English

Director: Domee Shi

Producer: Lindsey Collins

Writer: Julia Cho , Domee Shi

Release Date (Theaters): Feb 9, 2024 wide

Release Date (Streaming): Mar 11, 2022

Box Office (Gross USA): $1.3M

Runtime: 1h 40m

Distributor: Disney/Pixar

Production Co: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios

Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos

Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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Not my favorite Pixar movie, and having never been a young teenage girl there was certainly a large amount I couldn't relate to in it. That said, I love that Pixar is telling stories for this demographic and for the painfully under-told area of mother/daughter stories. And as far as mother/daughter stories go, it's a good one! Do I know what it's like to be in a relationship like that? No, because I am not nor will I ever be either, but again, I like seeing that these stories can be told! But as an adult male, the themes of finding yourself and identity could still resonate with me in a strong way. Plus, that panda is just cute. The characters are all incredibly strong and distinct, and obviously the animation is gorgeous. If anything, I wish the movie was funnier. However, I acknowledge a lot of the jokes were not meant for me, so some people may find this movie hilarious whereas I did not. Still a solid movie though.

Disney is simply the best out there in terms of animation, specifically Pixar films. Yes, many animated films have come out from other studios that deserve higher praise for sure, but the consistency of Disney/Pixar animation has always been unmatched. Turning Red is Pixar's latest release, once again going straight to Disney+ and it's once again another delightful film by the studio. I'll try to keep my bias of having lived in Toronto at one point and still living in the vicinity of it to the side, but seeing a major animation feature taking place there put a huge smile on my face. Here's why I believe Turning Red should not just be seen by its demographic but seen by all ages. Following Mei Lee (Rosalie Chiang) a 13-year-old girl on the brink of puberty, Turning Red is really about the exploration of what happens to your body, but in a much lighter and fun way. After turning 13, she begins to sense her body changing. As soon as she feels any kind of excitement, her body transforms into a giant red panda. Mei's insanely overprotective mother wishes for her to keep this a secret, as it's a family issue that has been dealt with before. This eventually leads to an emotional climax, but at its core, this is a film about Mei and her friends, just trying to live their lives. Where this film really sold me was the friendship between the four main young girls. It felt very authentic to how kids act and talk today. On top of that, making them the outsiders so that the entire school can think Mei is incredible when they finally see the Panda was a great touch. This type of story has been told before, but it's always refreshing to see it done well. This is also one of the more mature subjects that Pixar has tackled in a while, which was very nice to see. Overall, where the film leads is pretty much exactly what I expected and there weren't a tonne of surprises, but the main twist did get me. I also am a huge advocate for a major studio believing that one of their employees deserves a bigger shot. Domee Shi (who also co-wrote the screenplay) directed the short film Bao for Disney a few years ago and it was one of the better ones in years. On top of that, she has been around in and around the studio for many years, working as a storyboard artist on films like Inside Out and Toy Story 4. She has now made one of Pixar's catalogue films and I believe it more than deserves a spot on the list. Turning Red is very straightforward in terms of how everything plays out, but it's still great. It's now streaming on Disney+ and I recommend it.

It's great! The film critic in me always appreciates an animated coming-of-age modern fantasy even if they are formulaic to death and uninspired in story structure. The Asian-Canadian in me on the other hand is truly charmed and grateful of the representation! It really is the extreme attention to detail that makes this film stand out and own it's narrative. Scenes are so carefully constructed with cultural references not only with Chinese and Canadian identifiers but of the early 2000's. The main character knows who she is, is an over-achiever and a young woman who isn't conventionally attractive; all arguably refreshing for the genre. Pixar's masterful animation with spot on keyframes and character expressions isn't anything to shrug off either (but who expects anything less in that regard) Turning Red really is a testament that there's still interesting ways to tell tired stories even if it is just changing details.

It's fair to start to wonder whether Disney has some kind of grudge against Pixar at this time. The last three Pixar movies have been pulled from theatrical release and made exclusively available as part of their streaming war chest with Disney Plus. You can blame COVID for Soul being pulled, and the theatrical market was still recovering by the time Luca was scheduled to be released during the middle of summer 2021, but this didn't stop Disney from releasing both of its own in-house animated efforts to theaters. Both Raya and the Last Dragon and Encanto played in theaters in 2021 and both under-performed at the box-office, which is clearly not close to where it was pre-pandemic. No animated movie has earned over $100 million at the U.S. box-office since COVID, and maybe that's the reason that Turning Red has become the third Pixar movie to go directly to streaming. There are rumors that this trend has been demoralizing for Pixar employees, and explanations by Disney brass that these movies move valuable subscribers to their service, but I guess we'll see when the Buzz Lightyear movie comes out summer 2022. Regardless, Turning Red is a high quality movie that made me feel warm and fuzzy all over. Meilin Lee (voiced by Rosalie Chiang) is a 12-year-old student trying to live her best life in Toronto circa 2002. That means she's one way with her friends and one way with her domineering mother, Ming (Sandra Oh). Mei is an overachieving student, devoted daughter to her family's business caring for a Chinese temple honoring their ancestors and red pandas, and a fangirl in the extreme for the popular boy band, 4-Town (even though there are five members). Mei's mother does not approve of her devotion to this band, or the influence of her friends, and doesn't understand the new person her daughter is turning into. However, Mei also happens to turn into a giant red panda whenever she feels any strong emotion. She has to keep herself in check, which is hard to do with mean students, an embarrassing mother, and the prospect of scrounging up enough money so she and her three besties can see their favorite boy band live. I had to consider what about Turning Red worked for me and what about Luca did not. They're both relatively smaller scale movies about characters who transform into fantastical creatures, who have to hide their secret, deal with parental disapproval, and come of age while pushing their personal boundaries and re-examining who they are and what they felt was important. There are several points of comparison but I found Luca to be broadly lackluster and low in stakes. With Turning Red, I found the movie to be much more engaging and poignant. So what's the difference where one feels shallow and the other feels personal and resonant? I think the difference is that Turning Red's relationships feel more realized and complex. The mother-daughter dynamic is fraught with tension, as trying to live up to the standards of the prior generation is often a surefire way to disappointment. That stuff is relatable, and the drama is potent, but the movie doesn't lose sight of the generational love underneath all the headaches. Both movies are in essence about growing up and finding your identity, relishing different parts of you that stand out as unique, and coming to terms with differences in perception, but I felt with Turning Red that the film embraced these themes, integrated them better, and also built a sturdier foundation of enriched character relationships. The animation is irrepressibly gorgeous but I really enjoyed the added style of Turning Red. It had a more tactile physical presence that reminded me of the Aardman models (Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run). The color balance also emphasized bright colors that popped with subdued hues as a background. I especially enjoyed playful little touches from anime that emphasized the overly dramatic nature of the personal stakes, like when Mei is sweating over whether her mom will find her notebook filled with pictures of a crush that she felt compelled to draw. There's a definite energy to this movie that's missing from plenty of other Pixar movies. It follows the perspective of its heroine, so it's joyfully excitable and goofy at points and definitely over-the-top, like when she's calling out her besties and we flash to a rotating mountain they're all triumphantly scaling. It's adopted her perspective in a way that makes the movie feel more personable, and I appreciated Mei's character even more. Special credit should go to whoever was in charge of designing the fur textures for the red panda. When she fully panda's out, Mei resembles a wonderfully realized version of a Totoro-styled demigod. It was the third act where Turning Red went from amusing to surprisingly poignant for me. The central conflict is between Mei trying to be herself and the version her mother thinks she should be, which is naturally more deferential and devoted to the family at the expense of independence. This isn't the first story to explore the difference between traditional families and their children becoming more influenced by Western pop-culture. It's also not the first story about finding your voice and making a stand, or about parents coming to terms with the realization that their little kid isn't so little any more. That's fine. The supernatural elements are also pretty straightforward to follow and in service of the central relationships and metaphors. It's the personal details that make this movie feel specific to its voice while still being accessible and relatable. It's easy to cringe when Mei's mother shares Mei's private drawings with her fleeting crush. While many of us might not have been diehard fans of a boy band, we all had some phase where we felt more mature, more grown up, and dramatically different because of what this interest meant for us. I found myself battling genuine tears by the end. The end comes down to a conflict between mother and daughter, itself an echo of past conflicts, of overbearing generations being less flexible. It's also ultimately about acceptance, but the idea that the aspects about yourself that you feel embarrassed or insecure about do not need to be expunged from your identity I think is a worthwhile message about growing up. It's not about shedding parts of yourself, killing off things you dislike. It's more about transformation and acceptance of self. Turning Red is a briskly paced comedy with a precise, charismatic lead character letting us in on the pressures of her world and of being a teenage girl in the early twentieth century. It's colorful and frenetic at points but feels completely in keeping with the personality of our plucky protagonist. The combination of puberty and monster transformation has been a ripe area for films especially in the realm of horror. This also might be the horniest Pixar movie to date, and a climactic confrontation involves shaking one's butt, as they kids are wont to do in leisure. It's got the substance I felt was missing with Luca and the simplified and streamlined world building that I felt could have improved Soul. In short, Turning Red isn't top-tier Pixar but it's an irresistible urban fantasy that has plenty of heart and whimsy to enchant audiences no matter the age. Nate's Grade: B+

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Jennifer Lawrence is tied to a chair, beaten and tortured. She is the victim of rape and attempted rape. She is forced to strip naked in private and in public. She is slashed, stabbed and has a gun put to her head.

Ostensibly, such graphic ordeals are intended to demonstrate the physical and psychological fortitude of her character, a Russian spy named Dominika Egorova. But ultimately, these shocking and violent sequences become repetitive and gratuitous, making “Red Sparrow” feel more like a cheap exercise in exploitation than a visceral tale of survival.

Surely there’s more to spycraft than knowing the perfect spot to caress on a target’s thigh, or how delicately to whisper into his ear. But this is about the extent of the training she receives. (Oh! She also learns how to pick locks.) Dominika is right when she complains that she’s been sent to “whore school” alongside other attractive and tough-minded young people who are being molded to serve Russia’s secret intelligence. What she endures is more than just degrading—it’s destructive. And as a solitary tool set, it wouldn’t seem to prepare her for the many dangers headed her way.

“Red Sparrow,” which Francis Lawrence directed from Justin Haythe ’s script, is based on the novel by Jason Matthews . But it’s impossible to watch it without comparing it to last summer’s stylish and kinetic “ Atomic Blonde ,” another physically demanding espionage thriller starring Charlize Theron . That film truly was about female empowerment—about a woman using every inch of her body to achieve her goals while also having agency over her fate. The fact that Dominika is told early on that her “body belongs to the state”—which was the case long before she started training to be a spy—makes her the object of constant leering, and that male gaze gives “Red Sparrow” a skeevy vibe from which it never deviates.

Director Lawrence also worked with Jennifer Lawrence (no relation) in the last three “Hunger Games” movies, so he’s familiar with putting his exceedingly capable star through the wringer. She’s certainly game for it all (despite her wavering accent.) But aside from some shocking bursts of violence, he directs “Red Sparrow” with a surprisingly dull sameness. That overall bland tone, coupled with the film’s unnecessarily long running time, makes this would-be thriller less than thrilling.

It begins with promise and verve, though, as we see Dominika at the height of her powers in her former life, performing as a prima ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet. The great Ukrainian dancer Sergei Polunin plays her partner; sadly, he barely gets to show off his formidable abilities. But he is crucial to the on-stage accident that ends her career with a fall and a crack. (It’s one of many gory moments that’ll make you flinch and cringe in your seat.)

Dominika’s career-ending leg break also means the end of her ballet-sponsored housing and medical care that her ill mother needs. Right on cue, her uncle Vanya (yes, Matthias Schoenaerts really plays a character named Uncle Vanya) steps in with a proposal. He’s a high-ranking member of the Russian secret intelligence agency, and he has recognized cunning and scrappiness in her since she was a child. He thinks she can make herself useful to the state in order to protect her home and her mother.

That’s right. He sends her to whore school.

Charlotte Rampling , the cruel and emotionless leader of the training center (it’s actually called Sparrow School), teaches Dominika and her classmates how to manipulate people by seeking out their weaknesses, using their charms and becoming whomever they must to get the assignment done. Rampling’s character, known only as Matron, gives a speech to the class about how the West is weak, tearing itself apart with racial divisions and social media obsessions, and how it’s Russia’s time to step in and assert itself as the ultimate world power. This is about as close as “Red Sparrow” comes to addressing the renewed Cold War between Russia and the United States. (I guess a whole movie in which Jennifer Lawrence sits in a Moscow office building pumping out anti- Hillary Clinton Twitter bots would’ve been hard to market.)

There’s not nearly enough of Rampling, however. (Similarly, Jeremy Irons and Ciaran Hinds help bolster the strong cast in small roles as top Russian officials.) That’s because Dominika soon gets her first assignment: She must travel to Budapest and cozy up to a CIA officer named Nate Nash ( Joel Edgerton ), who’d been working in Moscow, and find out the identity of the mole who was his contact inside Russian intelligence.

Lawrence and Edgerton suffer from a woeful lack of chemistry together, a component that’s essential to determining whether the entire movie works. The way they dance around one other—flirting, feeling each other out—provides some intrigue and suspense at first. But they drop their facades far too quickly, and the ensuing romance has barely any spark. They never make us believe the sacrifices they’re willing to make for each other; we just have to go with it as the plot chugs along.

Thankfully, there’s Mary-Louise Parker , who provides a much-needed respite from this slog. She has a quick but significant supporting role as the chief of staff to a United States senator who’s too drunk to realize she’s not nearly as slick or savvy as she thinks she is. She finds herself in over her head while trying to sell secrets to the Russians and ends up getting squeezed in the midst of a power play between various double-crossing agents. It’s the film’s most suspenseful segment. And for one brief, glorious moment, she breathes life into a movie that never truly takes flight.

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‘Civil War’ beholds the rockets’ red glare but not real-world divisions

Alex garland’s lean, cruel film appeals to its broadest base by dodging specifics.

The jaw-clenching, bullet-clanging thriller “Civil War” opens with a blurry image of the president of the United States of America. As the president moves into view, we can see he’s played by Nick Offerman and can hear the speech he’s practicing, vague platitudes about vanquishing the insurgents of California and Texas. But even as POTUS’s face comes into focus, writer-director Alex Garland keeps him fuzzy. What are his politics? What could have possibly united blue California and red Texas against him? What year is it? I suspect Garland might answer that specifics are a distraction. No bloodbath is rational.

Early on in Garland’s fourth movie, a bomb explodes in New York. In the eerie silence, a hard-bitten war photographer named Lee (Kirsten Dunst) dispassionately snaps photos of the fresh corpses. Behind her, a greenhorn named Jessie (Cailee Spaeny) takes photos of Lee taking photos of the dead, and behind Jessie, of course, are Garland and his cinematographer Rob Hardy filming images of both women. There are three lens-lengths of distance between these horrors and us bystanders curious to see the collapse of the United States.

Everyone in that chain would claim they’re recording the brutality for our benefit. Lee admits she hoped ghastly images from her earlier career — a montage of executions from other wars in other countries that flips by in eerily stunning slow motion — would caution her own homeland to keep the peace. Clearly, that didn’t work. Maybe Garland naively hopes the same, which is why he’s avoided the real-world polarization behind this conflict so his gory warning will be watched by as many Americans as possible. Garland has stripped every background player of any demographic patterns of age, race, class, gender or beliefs. One fatal standoff is between two women of color who appear to be roughly the same age. There’s no telling which side would want your allegiance (and, honestly, neither deserves it). The only word we recognize, a reference to Lee’s landmark photographs of something called “the antifa massacre,” rushes past so fast that only later do we realize Garland didn’t give away whether the antifascists got slaughtered or did the slaughtering.

Garland doesn’t investigate how this war started, or how long it’s been going on, or whether it’s worth fighting. The film is, like Dunst’s Lee and her longtime colleagues Joel (Wagner Moura) and Sammy (Stephen McKinley Henderson), coldly, deliberately incurious about the combatants and the victims. As Lee says, any moral questions about them should be asked by whoever is looking at her photos, but those theoretical observers don’t factor into the film, either. (By contrast, this year’s Oscar documentary winner “20 Days in Mariupol,” also about photographers in a war zone, threw its narrative weight behind the desperation to get its powerful images out .) When we take in Dunst’s weary gaze and welded-on grimace with the same dispassion Lee gives to her own subjects, we can’t imagine the last time she let herself feel anything at all.

Yet the blinders Garland welds onto the story make it charge forward with gusto. This is a lean, cruel film about the ethics of photographing violence, a predicament any one of us could be in if we have a smartphone in our hand during a crisis. That’s also a predicament that Garland and other big-idea, big-scare directors find themselves in when they want to tell a shocker about very bad things without overly enjoying their sadistic thrills. Garland’s first three movies — “Ex Machina,” “Annihilation” and “Men” — dug into artificial intelligence, environmental collapse and sexual aggression, some more compellingly than others. In “Civil War,” any patriotic ideals about what this country once stood for never come up. The closest anyone comes to invoking democracy is a funny gag when a hotel concierge tells Lee that, given the sporadic blackouts, she has the freedom of choice between risking the elevator or climbing 10 flights of stairs.

Most of the movie is spent embedded with Lee, Jessie, Joel and Sammy as their battered white van takes a circuitous route from Manhattan to Washington. The gang races their competitors for footage of the president. Over a soundtrack of anxious punk rock, we see the cost of nabbing the money shot: the bottles of vodka, the filthy clothes worn for days on end, the growing doubts that their press badges still offer protection. Garland has an obvious arc in mind: Jessie the rookie must shed her vulnerability (which Spaeny does, masterfully), while Lee the veteran must regain hers. But it’s hard to buy Dunst’s unflappable pro needing to be dragged around by the scruff of her bulletproof vest like a mewling kitten.

Occasionally, the film plays us for a fool. The trailers have made a fuss over a line where a rifle-wielding soldier (Jesse Plemons) asks the journalists, “What kind of Americans are you?” But in context, it turns out that the brute is asking Moura’s Joel if he might be Central or South American. (“Florida,” Joel replies.) The bully is actually “just” xenophobic — a fake-out that feels like Garland is nervously changing the subject. Yet, more often, the film feels poetically, deeply true, even when it’s suggesting that humans are more apt to tear one another apart for petty grievances than over a sincere defense of some kind of principles. In one dreamlike scene, the team is attacked by sniper fire at an abandoned winter carnival. No one knows who’s shooting, a stranger in fatigues shrugs, as they duck behind plastic penguins and plaster Santa Clauses. We never will.

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Spy x Family Code: White Hits the Red Carpet for English Dub World Premiere

The voice cast of the Spy x Family Code: White anime movie walked the red carpet for the worldwide English dub premiere in Los Angeles.

The North American release of the Spy x Family Code: White anime movie will premiere in theaters on April 19 . However, an early theatrical screening of the English dub was held on April 11 in Los Angeles, California.

Per Crunchyroll, the English dub of Spy x Family Code: White had its worldwide premiere at the DGA Theater Complex in LA. The star-studded event featured the main English voice cast from the series' first animated movie: Alex Organ (Loid "Twilight" Forger), Megan Shipman (Anya Forger), Natalie Van Sistine (Yor Forger), Tyler Walker (Bond Forger), Anthony Bowling (Franky "Scruffy" Franklin), Tyson Rinehart (Luca), Phil Parson (Domitri) and Lindsay Seidel (Fiona "Nightfall" Frost). In addition to the English voice actors, celebrities like Dara Renee, Emery Kelly, Max Ehrich and Zeno Robinson, as well as rapper 24kGoldn, musician Kim Dracula, and model, singer, actor and producer Skye Aurelia attended the event. Content creators like Billy Yue, Jacki Jing, Nicewigg, Neekolul, Izzy Kento, Magdaline Janet and Stella Chu were also present.

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Spy x Family Code: White originally premiered in Japan on Dec. 22, 2023, and is now rolling out internationally in late April via Crunchyroll. This is the first theatrical anime movie based on the Spy x Family series. Based on the manga by Tatsuya Endo, Spy x Family provides a comedic twist on the spy genre, following the Forgers as they adjust to everyday family life while being oblivious to each other's true professions.

The official description of the Code: White anime movie reads: "He's a spy. She's an assassin. Together, Loid and Yor keep their double lives to themselves while pretending to be the perfect family. However, their adopted daughter Anya, a telepath, knows both of their exciting secrets unbeknownst to them. While under the guise of taking his family on a weekend winter getaway, Loid's attempt to make progress on his current mission Operation Strix proves difficult when Anya mistakenly gets involved and triggers events that threaten world peace!"

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Spy x family fans anticipate a season 3 announcement in june.

In March, a special public event for the Spy x Family anime series was announced for Japan. " Spy x Family Anime Extra Mission " will take place on June 9 at the Musashino Forest Sports Plaza in Chofu, Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese voice cast of the anime series will entertain attendees with vocal performances, behind-the-scenes tales and other on-stage activities. The anime voice cast will also read from an original Spy x Family story.

Although the event hasn't made any promises, Spy x Family fans believe the anime event will make a Season 3 announcement . The Spy x Family anime is currently available to stream on Crunchyroll, Hulu and soon on Netflix .

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In his directorial debut “Monkey Man,” Dev Patel gifts action-movie fans with a multilayered, hyperviolent narrative. Sure, he pulls off a deep dive into Indian mythology, yet he's pretty darn good at attacking goons with fireworks, platform shoes and all manner of sharp objects too.

More “Rocky” than “John Wick,” the gritty and gory revenge thriller (★★★ out of four; rated R; in theaters Friday) is a love letter to his two-fisted influences, from Bruce Lee movies to Asian cult flicks like “Oldboy” and “The Raid.” But the underdog story, produced by Jordan Peele, also shows a bunch of new sides to Patel, who knuckles up as a legit action star and a guy who can make a movie that’s totally cool, occasionally amusing and impressively thoughtful.

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Patel also co-wrote the screenplay, a modern take on the mythos of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman. Kid (Patel) competes in an underground Indian fight club, though his job is mainly to take a bloody beating while wearing a monkey mask and hope his colorful boss Tiger (Sharlto Copley) doesn’t stiff him on pay.

At the same time, our hero is also haunted by the murder of his mom and a traumatic childhood, which fuels Kid’s mission of vengeance to take down those responsible. He gets a chance to infiltrate a repressive political system by working in a high-end brothel and starts causing problems for power players including a narcissistic, no-good celebrity guru (Makarand Deshpande) and a corrupt police chief (Sikander Kher).

With the holiday of Diwali on the way, as well as an important election, they don’t need someone like Kid messing things up. He becomes a wanted man and ends up left for dead in the street, where he’s found by a tribe of trans women who like Kid have been marginalized. Their leader Alpha (Vipin Sharma) nurses him back to health yet also imparts a key lesson: Instead of enduring pain and suffering as his primary existence, Kid needs a purpose in life.

While the piecemeal rollout of Kid’s backstory and bits of the Hanuman tale muddy the plot at first, “Monkey Man” swings into a groove when the main character is at his lowest point. Kid gets himself (and the movie) into gear in a lively montage where he uses a bag of wheat for punching practice as Alpha offers up a nifty percussion accompaniment. (It’s the next best thing to Survivor songs psyching up Rocky Balboa back in the day.)

Thusly inspired and trained, Kid goes on a righteous rampage and literally fights his way to the top floor of the villainous big boss. Patel can craft a mean action sequence, whether between ring ropes as masked men duke it out for crowds, a speedy car chase involving a tuk-tuk named after Nicki Minaj, or Kid kicking, stabbing and brawling his way through hordes of bad guys. As the guy at the center of these battles, the Oscar-nominated Patel ("Lion") never seems or looks out of place, even borrowing Keanu Reeves’ fashionable panache when it comes to gnarly combat couture.

The fact that “Monkey Man” includes social-cultural context, as something meaty to chew on rather than a throwaway thematic thread, is the cherry on top of Patel’s bloody sundae. He’s managed to craft a rare action movie that makes you think and also will joyfully plunge a metal rod into a dude’s brain.

Review: Director Ken Loach’s compassion remains a sturdy, reliable virtue in ‘The Old Oak’

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When it comes to the fiercely political British director Ken Loach’s latest film, “The Old Oak,” a bit of classic Hollywood promotional language comes to mind: Ken Loach is “The Old Oak.” Because seemingly forever, the sturdiest, tallest figure in the cinema of working-class struggle has been Loach, the man behind such raw, forthright classics as “Kes,” “Riff-Raff,” “The Wind That Shakes the Barley,” “I, Daniel Blake” and “Sorry We Missed You.”

If this is the final round for the 87-year-old filmmaker, he’s going out with a protest sign in one hand and a pint in the other. That’s because “The Old Oak,” written by longtime collaborator Paul Laverty and named for the last remaining pub in a downtrodden town in northeast England, shows Loach no less committed to the cause but also as faith-filled as he’s ever been.

It’s 2016 when we enter the story via black-and-white photographs of a busload of displaced Syrians, mostly mothers, children and the elderly, being dropped off in the mining town of Durham, the film’s audio dominated by locals loudly and bigotedly condemning their arrival. When the film itself starts (and cinematographer Robbie Ryan ’s clean naturalism takes over), we learn that the refugee documenting everything is a young woman named Yara (Ebla Mari), whose first interaction is with a brutish man who violently grabs her camera and breaks it.

One of the aid helpers appalled at his townsfolk’s behavior is divorced, middle-aged pub owner TJ (an affecting Dave Turner), a lonely man with a good heart and a lot of hurt. He offers to help get Yara’s camera repaired and the unlikely pair strike up a friendship borne of mutual empathy for each other’s pain: her homeland and family brutalized by war; his once-thriving community battered by economic neglect and a poisoning fear. The latter is routinely manifested in the churlish Old Oak regulars for whom nostalgia-fueled resentment is no longer a condition to be changed but a disturbingly snug set of clothes; they view TJ’s kindness toward Yara (or anybody’s charity toward the Syrians) as a betrayal.

But on the walls of the threadbare pub’s long-shuttered backroom is photographic evidence — a reminder to TJ, an inspiring history for Yara — of the country’s 1984 miners’ strike , when an embattled people looked out for one another. Soon enough, TJ is spearheading a revitalization of the room so two struggling worlds can meet: communal dinners to feed both the refugees and a deprived town’s isolated youth. As things play out, however, Loach and Laverty are realistic enough in their tale of invigorating compassion to grasp that, as difficult as it is to find and nurture hope, just as essential is recognizing the danger lurking in festering grievance.

As vitally angry as Loach’s films can often be about the issues they’re addressing, the secret glue to his unvarnished, in-the-moment style has always been what camaraderie and care look like within any maelstrom of injustice and oppression. The authenticity of his casting, including his unwavering belief in newcomers, is flawless here, with Mari’s portrait of resilience sharing the frame wonderfully with Turner’s bearish, wounded air. And in a key role as a pub regular, Trevor Fox makes palpable the injury and distrust that can warp an honest reaction to a stranger’s struggles.

Loach is the rare movie agitator who can point to results. In 1966, his television film “Cathy Come Home” rattled the U.K. into acting on homelessness. We may be too inured these days to the unceasing drumbeat of immigration’s realities and disinformation to expect “The Old Oak,” as deeply emotional as it is, to have a similar impact. But we can still feel thankful for this beautifully indignant director’s career-long, never-wavering theme of solidarity, of seeing others’ problems as ours too, worth striking about and fighting against. It’s a righteous oeuvre with marvelously strong roots.

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RED movie review & film summary (2010)
Says here it's a supernatural Western being produced by Tarantino. Borgnine himself is a heck of a guy. I flew out of Cartagena with him one morning with a terrible hangover, and we got stranded in some forgotten Colombian airport where he fed me aspirin crushed in milk. An actor like that is a role model. Advertisement.
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After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reassembles his old team for an all-out war. Frank reunites with old Joe (Morgan Freeman), crazy ...
Red (2010 film)
Red is a 2010 American action comedy film loosely inspired by the DC Comics limited series of the same name.Produced by Di Bonaventura Pictures and distributed by Summit Entertainment, it is the first film in the Red series. Directed by Robert Schwentke and written by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, it stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, and Mary-Louise ...
RED (2010)
RED: Directed by Robert Schwentke. With Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Heidi von Palleske, Jefferson Brown. When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last-ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren in Story of Old Killers
Running time: 1 hour 51 minutes. WITH: Bruce Willis (Frank Moses), Morgan Freeman (Joe Matheson), John Malkovich (Marvin Boggs), Helen Mirren (Victoria), Karl Urban (William Cooper), Mary-Louise ...
Movie Review: Red (2010)
Hell no, but Schwentke's latest is sure to entertain all of you whippersnappers looking for an entertaining action-comedy flick. Critical Movie Critic Rating: 5. Movie Review: Jackass 3D (2010) Movie Review: Catfish (2010) Movie review of Red (2010) by The Critical Movie Critics.
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RED Movie Review
RED. By Sandie Angulo Chen, Common Sense Media Reviewer. age 14+. Well-cast action comedy is entertaining -- but very violent. Movie PG-13 2010 111 minutes. Rate movie. Parents Say: age 13+ 17 reviews.
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Dec 14, 2011. Based on a simple premise, Red is a clever revenge film thanks to the direction of Lucky Mckee and a talented ensemble cast. Super Reviewer. Nov 29, 2011. "Red" is both an endearing ...
RED (2010)
More Detail: RED is the hottest action flick of the year. It has a fun plot with engaging characters and plenty of winsome humor and intense shoot-em-up action. There are some problems, however, so media-wisdom is advised. Bruce Willis stars as Frank Moses, a retired black-ops CIA agent living a quiet life alone in Cleveland (the movie's ...
Turning Red movie review & film summary (2022)
Now imagine my astonishment during Oscar-winning "Bao" helmer Domee Shi's masterful animation "Turning Red," while I watched its 13-year-old central character undergo a similar episode with her own mother! The heroine in question is the overachieving Meilin (Rosalie Chiang)—Mei for her loved ones—growing up too fast with her budding hormones and changing body amid her Chinese ...
Red Movie Review for Parents
Red Rating & Content Info . Why is Red rated PG-13? Red is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for intense sequences of action violence and brief strong language.. Violence: Characters in this film are shot, blown up, beaten and frequently threatened with weapons.A man attacks and kills three intruders, one with an apparently lethal injection. He later kills a large group of men by booby-trapping his home.
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A murder investigation leads police to a photo of a suspect, but when two men are found with faces that match the picture, the case gets doubly tricky. Watch trailers & learn more.
One Piece Film: Red Movie Review
One Piece Film: Red Movie Review: Critics Rating: 3.5 stars, click to give your rating/review,The 15th volume of the One Piece franchise, based on writer and illustrator Eiichiro Oda's manga, cr
Red Movie Review: A thriller-romance-drama that tests your patience
Nivetha Pethuraj excels at playing the wide-eyed naïve SI Yamini. RED has its moments and has two characters that are kind of interesting at its core. It also has a brilliant cast. If only it were not let down by a draggy screenplay. Give this one a chance only if a weird, mixed dose of romance, thriller and masala is your cup of tea.
'Red Notice' Review
Red Notice. The Bottom Line Star charisma and chemistry just about carry it. Release date: Friday, Nov. 12. Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, Ritu Arya, Chris Diamantopoulos, Ivan ...
Red Movie Review: A thriller-romance-drama that tests your patience
Red Movie Review: Critics Rating: 2.5 stars, click to give your rating/review,It is only Ram pulling off a dual role that makes you want to sit all the way through.
Red Island review
Red Island might be compared to Albert Serra's Pacifiction - a cheese dream of French imperial tristesse - but without the self-indulgence. It's a compelling, visually exquisite piece of work.
Red Notice (English) Movie Review: RED NOTICE is a paisa vasool
Red Notice (English) Movie Review 2021 : Red Notice (English) Critics Rating 3.5/5. RED NOTICE is the story of an officer trying to catch an art thief. Special Agent John Heartley (Dwayne Johnson ...
Turning Red
Regardless, Turning Red is a high quality movie that made me feel warm and fuzzy all over. Meilin Lee (voiced by Rosalie Chiang) is a 12-year-old student trying to live her best life in Toronto ...
Red One (2024)
Red One: Directed by Jake Kasdan. With Dwayne Johnson, Kiernan Shipka, Chris Evans, Kristofer Hivju. After a shocking abduction from the North Pole, the Commander of the E.L.F. Task Force must partner with the world's most infamous bounty hunter to save Christmas.
Spy x Family Code: White (2023)
Spy x Family Code: White: Directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi. With Takuya Eguchi, Atsumi Tanezaki, Saori Hayami, Ken'ichirô Matsuda. After receiving an order to be replaced in Operation Strix, Loid decides to help Anya win a cooking competition at Eden Academy, by making the director's favorite meal in order to prevent his replacement.
Red Sparrow movie review & film summary (2018)
Red Sparrow. Jennifer Lawrence is tied to a chair, beaten and tortured. She is the victim of rape and attempted rape. She is forced to strip naked in private and in public. She is slashed, stabbed and has a gun put to her head. Ostensibly, such graphic ordeals are intended to demonstrate the physical and psychological fortitude of her character ...
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Early on in Garland's fourth movie, a bomb explodes in New York. In the eerie silence, a hard-bitten war photographer named Lee (Kirsten Dunst) dispassionately snaps photos of the fresh corpses.
Spy x Family Code: White Hits the Red Carpet for English Dub ...
The North American release of the Spy x Family Code: White anime movie will premiere in theaters on April 19.However, an early theatrical screening of the English dub was held on April 11 in Los Angeles, California. Per Crunchyroll, the English dub of Spy x Family Code: White had its worldwide premiere at the DGA Theater Complex in LA. The star-studded event featured the main English voice ...
Red One: Release Date Set for Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans Movie
Red One, from Dwayne Johnson and his Seven Bucks Productions, is set to hit theaters worldwide Nov. 15, 2024, in order to take full advantage of the long year-end holiday corridor (several cinema ...
'Monkey Man' movie review: Dev Patel is a revelation as an action star
In his directorial debut "Monkey Man," Dev Patel gifts action-movie fans with a multilayered, hyperviolent narrative. Sure, he pulls off a deep dive into Indian mythology, yet he's pretty darn ...
'The Old Oak' review: Director Ken Loach's sturdy compassion
Co-starring Ebla Mari and Dave Turner, the new movie from the esteemed English filmmaker bears his signature solidarity, even if his characters aren't perfect.
'Civil War' Review: Alex Garland's Carnage Without Cause
Starring Kirsten Dunst as a cynical journalist, the British director's new film depicts a dystopian, war-torn America, but it is strangely indifferent to the country's actual socio-political ...