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Mid90s
Jonah Hill's coming-of-age story sometimes sparks with authenticity
"...His choices are the ones least dictated by the script; Hill trusts Smith to shape him as both father..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Little Women
The Louisa May Alcott classic charmlessly updated
"...exception: Thompson as the family matriarch, Marmee); a serviceable script that takes few if any chances, with occasional wordless..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Beautiful and heartfelt fantasy anime tackles death and family
"...a shame, since Okada is best known as a scriptwriter. And, honestly, if it had taken another half hour..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

On Chesil Beach
Desire and desperation in Ian McEwan's pre-sexual revolution novella.
"...reminder of that truth. This film adaptation, with a script by McEwan, reinforces the idea that the past is..."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Show Dogs
Unfunny canine buddy-cop comedy is no man's best friend.
"...the inarticulate dialogue in Max Botkin and Marc Hyman’s script. It’s mesmerizing, really, in a creepily anthropomorphic way: those..."

May 25, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Overboard
Unexpected remake of the Eighties' most questionable rom-com
"...This script (by Rob Greenberg and Bob Fisher, working from Leslie..."

May 11, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tony Gilroy to Receive Austin Film Festival Honor
Rogue One, Bourne writer to be awarded
"...Clayton, he's been omnipresent as a creative force and script fixer. Now he's Austin Film Festival's latest honoree...."

May 8, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Chappaquiddick
The car crash that changed America.
"...of Mary Jo Kopechne never got one. The original script by Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan (their first) is..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Borg vs McEnroe
Tennis' greatest feud re-evaluated as an inner battle.
"...to becoming formulaic. So the genius of Ronnie Sandahl's script for tennis drama Borg vs McEnroe is the subtext..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Blockers
Butt-chugging gags can't hide Blockers' big heart.
"...up, and some of the smart one-liners from the script by Brian and Jim Kehoe get stamped on in..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Flower
Sardonic coming-of-age comedy never really matures.
"...Flower began life as a hot Black List script by Alex McAulay. The movie’s Diablo Cody-esque vibe was..."

March 23, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Wrinkle in Time
Ava DuVernay's adaptation of the children's classic rarely soars.
"...rules, an understanding of the tools available. Instead, the script, by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell, abruptly plunks the..."

March 9, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Game Night
Monopoly was never this brutal before this crime-com.
"...film owes what charm it has to a whip-smart script (heavy on double entendres – a delight for word..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Black Panther
High drama and high action as Marvel gives Wakanda life.
"...Coogler's script, co-written with American Crime Story producer Joe Robert Cole,..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Maze Runner: The Death Cure
YA dystopian trilogy finally comes to a close
"...a milquetoast. These young actors transcend T.S. Nowlin’s lackluster script – not exactly saving the world, sure, but they..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

God's Own Country
Love and lambing on the cruel, cold hills of England
"...adopt an orphaned lamb, avert your eyes quickly. Lee's script depicts the hardness of the land and the people..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Wonder Wheel
Woody Allen's ode to Coney Island
"...films in the last 25 years or so, the script plays like a first draft, with the characters spouting..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Blade of the Immortal
More blood-splattered samurai action from the Japanese master
"...Tetsuya Oishi’s script keeps many of the signature characters and events of..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

All I See Is You
A blind woman who regains her sight starts to see things differently
"...The script was co-written by Sean Conway and Marc Forster (Monster’s..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
The origins of the iconic Amazon princess
"...Wertham, but Robinson – who also penned the excellent script and is vocal about her own LGBTQ status –..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Flatliners
This reboot is dead on arrival
"...Although the new script notably adds some diversity to the roster, it otherwise..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

My Little Pony: The Movie
A rainbow-hued acid trip for 8-year-olds
"...broken heart. Inexplicably, three screenwriters receive credit for the script, which rehashes just about every MLP television episode and..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Jarrott Productions' Prodigal Son
The opposing worlds of John Patrick Shanley’s textured script are conjured with powerful stillness and restless energy
"...Here, Shanley recalls his experience in a deeply textured script, handled well by a skilled cast...."

Sept. 29, 2017 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Vortex Repertory Company's Storm Still
Gabrielle Reisman's script refashions King Lear into the daughters' story, and the Vortex stages it with admirable heart
"...murky and clever, and without the benefit of a script to read along with and annotate, it's best just..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

The Hitman’s Bodyguard
I will always love you
"...in unison against their common enemy), and although the script by Tom O’Connor affords each actor a nice share..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Despicable Me 3
Animated franchise confirms the law of diminishing returns
"...a toy store near you anytime now, but the script by Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul is both too..."

June 30, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Big Sick
The rom-com is dead! Long live the rom-com!
"...Valley) and his wife Emily V. Gordon wrote the script, inspired by their own courtship, which is to say..."

June 30, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Lovers
Breaking the doldrums of marriage
"...Lucy and Robert, director Jacobs, who also wrote the script, creates exceptionally well done parallel plotlines, with the question..."

May 19, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Snatched
A mother/daughter vacation from hell
"...the ha-ha shock effect wears thin.) Whenever the undisciplined script, credited to Katie Dippold, goes for some needed comic..."

May 12, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Land of Mine
A viscerally intense anti-war film
"...defeated Nazi troops. Most of them were just forcibly conscripted young boys, as Germany’s more battle-hardened soldiers were long..."

March 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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