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Friday, May 4, 2018

Movie Reviews: Tully, Overboard, Itzhak

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, Ismael's Ghost

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While super-heroes continue to dominate the multiplexes, a couple of new releases offer humor and heartbreak, and art-house offerings include a pair of very different artist-profile documentaries.

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami makes the case for its subject's diva status, even if you'd never heard of her before. You get beautiful music but not a ton of insight in Itzhak's portrait of violinist Itzhak Perlman.

Eric D. Snider finds the gender-swapped remake of the gaslighting comedy Overboard (pictured) more palatable than the original, but still sluggish. Metaphorical hauntings make for a wry, lyrical, sometimes plodding drama in Arnaud Desplechin's Ismael's Ghosts.

In this week's feature review, Charlize Theron's performance captures the anxieties of insecurities of moving from youth to motherhood in Tully.

Also opening this week, but not screened for press: Burglars discover that the house they broke into may be the home of a serial killer in Bad Samaritan.

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Scott Renshaw has been a City Weekly staff member since 1999, including assuming the role of primary film critic in 2001 and Arts & Entertainment Editor in 2003. Scott has covered the Sundance Film Festival for 25 years, and provided coverage of local arts including theater, pop-culture conventions, comedy, literature,... more

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