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As a comedy about early 1950s Hollywood, the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar! has trouble achieving lift-off, and even then can barely manage to stay airborne much longer than Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose. But simultaneously hidden in plain sight is a very different film, the story of a notorious real-life big studio fixer, Eddie Mannix, recast here as a secular saint who does nothing but good for the many and diverse people he must tend to in the course of his demanding job.
In a world where monsters attack at night, we see yet another world, post-apocalypse, where a handful of people struggle to survive.
Crime Scene Berlin-Nightlife Killer Review: This documentary series really drops the ball with its storytelling.
In a movie that largely sidesteps what the war is about, “Civil War” puts us in the point of view of journalists who make it clear there are no heroes in war, just dead bodies.
