Brent Leuthold
Whatzup Features Writer
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‘The White Tiger‘ Review: Strong source material carries movie
Based on the 2008 New York Times bestseller of the same name, The White Tiger tells the spirited story of Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav), a successful young businessman thriving in […]
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‘One Night in Miami‘ Review: Biopic brings ’60s black icons to life
Based on the smash stage play by Kemp Powers, the enthralling new biopic One Night in Miami depicts a fictionalized meeting between four burgeoning icons in the mid-1960s. We meet the first of […]
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‘Reel Views’ Review: Top ten movies of a not-top-ten year
Every columnist summing up the past 12 months will note how challenging it was for us collectively and individually, but I still feel the need to acknowledge and echo the […]
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‘Wonder Woman 1984‘ Review: DC superhero flick another mixed bag
Following this month’s bombshell news that Warner Bros will be simultaneously releasing their 2021 slate of films in theaters and on their affiliated streaming service HBO Max, film journalists repeated […]
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‘Soul‘ Review: Soulful masterpiece Pixar’s best in a decade
Almost immediately, Pixar’s abundantly ambitious and utterly absorbing new film Soul eschews these modest jumping-off points and tackles biggies like “Why are we the way that we are?” and “What […]
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‘Wolfwalkers‘ Review: Gorgeous animated feature enraptures
Much like the Portland-based stop-motion outfit Laika, the Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon has been building a strong resume over the past decade, even if their work has underwhelmed when […]
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‘Mank‘ Review: Listless biopic rare stumble for Fincher
Almost 80 years later, director David Fincher finds himself in a seemingly similar situation of artistic authority with Netflix. Starting out early as an executive producer on their first hit […]
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‘Run‘ Review: Engaging thriller quickens your pulse
By comparison, it’s much more broad in its story beats and campy in its execution, but at the end of the day, it delivers enough slick twists and turns in […]
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‘The Nest‘ Review: Law, Coon in outstanding period drama
In his outstanding sophomore outing The Nest, writer-director Sean Durkin inverts this equation, taking a family already reeling from years of mistrust and instability and, instead of serving them up […]