Tom Hanks

Movie Review: Asteroid City

By Jack Silbert on June 30, 2023

4 stars out of 5Wes Anderson is one of my all-time fave filmmakers so if he wants to continue experimenting with the form — puppets, anthology, and now, a story within a story — it’s certainly OK with me. Whether these “exercises” create a bit of distance between film and viewer and thereby prevent the […]

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Movie Review: News of the World

By Jack Silbert on December 26, 2020

4 stars out of 5Movie theaters reopened in New Jersey, at limited capacity, on September 4. Since then I’ve seen three films at my local cinema here in Hoboken: On the Rocks, Let Him Go, and Mank (which, unfortunately, turned out not to be a biopic of my long-ago crush Krys Mankowski). But a couple […]

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Movie Review: The Post

By Jack Silbert on January 16, 2018

4.5 stars out of 5 Through Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, Spielberg and Hanks covered World War II pretty intensively. So now the fellas have moved on to Vietnam. Not the actual fighting, but the press’s key role in uncovering White House deception of the public in that very troubled era. The result […]

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Movie Review: Bridge of Spies

By Jack Silbert on October 21, 2015

4 stars out of 5 I learned a little about captured pilot Francis Gary Powers as a schoolboy, and then I guess his name came up again after the band U2 got famous. But I can’t say I’ve given him a lot of thought since. Honestly, I didn’t even know that this movie was based […]

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