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GayFest’s best
Get your tickets and gird your loins. GayFest is upon us. That’s the Gay & Lesbian Film Festival of Kansas City, for the uninitiated, and it gets underway Friday, June 24 at the Tivoli Theatre in...
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“BEGINNERS” : Getting started
Ewan McGregor, Melanie Laurant and friend “BEGINNERS” My rating: B (Opens July 8 at the Glenwood Arts and Tivoli) 105 minutes | MPAA rating: R We inherit more from our parents than DNA. Without...
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“THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO”: As good the second time around
“THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO” My rating: B (Opens wide Dec. 21) 158 minutes | MPAA rating: R Like a lot of movie fans, I greeted with a big dose of cynicism the news that Hollywood was remaking the...
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“THE EXCEPTION”: The good German
Jai Courtney, Lily James “THE EXCEPTION” My rating: B- 107 minutes | MPAA rating: R At 88 years of age, Christopher Plummer just keeps getting better. In “The Exception” he portrays an historic...
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“THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS”: Humbugger helper
Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens “THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS” My rating: C 104 minutes | MPAA rating: PG When it is evoking the spirit of Dickens’ immortal A Christmas Carol, “The Man Who Invented...
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“BOUNDARIES”: Road to nowhere
Christopher Plummer, Vera Farminga “BOUNDARIES” My rating: C+ 104 minutes | MPAA rating: R A harried mom, an eccentric child, and a scurrillous grandpa go on a road trip. Stop me if you’ve heard this...
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“KNIVES OUT”: The family that sins together grins together
Daniel Craig…Southern fried private eye “KNIVES OUT” My rating: B (Opens wide on Nov. 27) 130 minutes | MPAA rating: The genteel drawing-room murder mystery gets roughed up but emerges more or less...
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