(Detroit, Michigan) The Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the BEST OF 2019 nominees in twelve categories.  The winners will be announced on December 9th, 2019. The Detroit Film Critics Society was founded in Spring 2007 and consists of a group of 21 fil...

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Taylor Russel, Kelvin Harrison Jr, and Sterling K Brown are at the forefront of Trey Edward Shults’ (“It Comes At Night”) compelling coming-of-age drama “Waves.” Like waves themselves, the film is one domino effect after the other, one event transpires whi...

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Noah Baumbach’s record remains unscathed as the writer-director continues his hot streak of humane and heartbreaking films that are delivered with the utmost poignancy. His near perfect film “Marriage Story” opens with spouses Nicole (Scarlett Jonhans...

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In “Elf: The Musical” - now playing at The Croswell Opera House - which is based on the classic Will Ferrell comedy of the same name, there’s a song so infectious and toe-tapping, I’ve found myself singing it in repetition. It’s calle...

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On the surface, “Frozen II” looks great, has compelling visual imagery, and gets mileage out of the cute snowman creation that is Olaf (voiced exuberantly by Josh Gad). Sadly, that’s all “Frozen II” has going for it, unlike its predecessor which had a...

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Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman’s ‘The Secret Garden’- based on the iconic novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett - has a terrific score and a beautiful script, but is the kind of title that doesn’t necessarily sell out theatre houses...

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Assembling Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci for a massive 209 minute film almost feels like a dream. Now add Martin Scorcese behind the camera, and we’re left with a magnum opus littered with self reflective metaphors, intense standoffs, and pl...

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We’re living in the era of reboots, sequels, and more reboots. This year alone has seen “Shaft,” “Men In Black” and “Terminator” trying to repackage a once lucrative property for the masses. Except, in all of those cases, the movies were bland, lacked he...