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IR Film Review: THE GRAY MAN [Netflix]

The intensity of "The Gray Man" is not to be underdone. It is a bombastic tour de force technically but devoid at many points of substance. In a film like this, the key is to play to the anti-hero and keep moving. But even with something to fight for and a lack of any romance at all, there is an emptiness to it.

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IR Film Review: DEEP WATER [Hulu]

"Deep Water" is based on a Patricia High Smith novel. And while it is not Ripley it does have characters who both have secrets but also make decisions for their own reasons. Armas and Affleck play a married couple separated by time, instinct and place in life.

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IR Film Review: NO TIME TO DIE [MGM]

Daniel Craig's final entry into the Bond series "No Time To Die" begins and ends with a finality to it. It harks back while looking forward. It does everything it likely should but in elevating Bond and making him more modern, at times, it loses a bit of what he is, sans societal norms.

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