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“The Exorcist: Believer” is a pretty good movie that’s so stuffed with characters and not-quite-developed ideas that you may come away from it thinking about what it could have been instead.  Directed and co-written by David Gordon Green, who recently oversaw a trilogy of “Halloween” sequels, it focuses on the simultaneous possession of two young girls (apparently by the same…

Readers of this site may be more familiar with the Michael Fassbender film version of “Assassin’s Creed”—one of the worst video game adaptations of all time—than the franchise it so pitifully adapted. It’s arguably the least representative film adaptation of the franchise’s potential on which it’s based in that “AC” is a series of limitless…

Wes Anderson has claimed recently that he does not have an aesthetic. That’s perfectly fine for him to deny, just as much as it’s fine he has a set style, a beloved collection of shots, blocking patterns, color palettes, and even vocal cadences. Rather, the issue is that his passion has led to a sameness, to…