Lisa Jensen

Posts By Lisa Jensen

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  Review: ‘Maggie’s Plan’

  Messy reality makes for deft comedy from director Rebecca Miller

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  Review: ‘Me Before You’

  Great acting, but unconvincing story in modern fairy tale

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  Film Review: Whit Stillman’s ‘Love & Friendship’

  Jane Austen adaptation wickedly funny

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  Film Review: ‘High-Rise’

  Class warfare runs amok in Ben Wheatley’s Ballard adaptation

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  Review: George Clooney stars in ‘Money Monster’

  Banking games spark hostage drama in fleet thriller ‘Money Monster’

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  Review: Hilarious Action Comedy ‘Keanu’

  Comedy duo Key and Peele play with race, kittens in ‘Keanu’

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  Review: Lanford Wilson’s ‘Talley’s Folly’ at Colligan Theater

  JTC ends its season with a story that reflects its own time of transition

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  ‘Born to Be Blue’ Lacks Dimension

  CHANELLING CHET Ethan Hawke plays Chet Baker in Robert Budreau’s ‘Born to Be Blue.’

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  Queen of the Scene

  Bon voyage to Nancy Raney, an icon of the Santa Cruz film community

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  Steampunk’d

  Science denied to humans in fanciful alt-fantasy ‘Extraordinary World’

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  Wrecking Crew

  Tragedy, comedy, destruction odd mix in ‘Demolition’

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  Sex, Drugs and Rockabilly

  Hank Williams inspires flat biopic ‘I Saw the Light’

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  Food for Thought

  L.A. food critic crusades for diversity in lively ‘City of Gold’

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  Raw Deal

  Tarot card symbolism trumps story in inert ‘Knight of Cups’

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  ‘Class’ Warfare

  An opera icon battles her students in Jewel Theatre's vibrant and surprising 'Master Class'

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  Film Review: Embrace of the Serpent

   A culture fades on the Amazon in haunting 'Embrace of the Serpent'

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  Damned Yankees

  Psychological dread amps up eerie ‘The Witch’

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  Flying Blind

  Underdog appeal vs. schmaltz in ‘Eddie the Eagle’

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  Boys Town

  Predicting Oscar gold in a 50-Shades-of-White year

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  Anatomy of a Marriage

  Time, longing infuse moving marital drama ‘45 Years’

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  Making Dreams

  Coen brothers salute vintage Hollywood in sly comedy ‘Hail, Caesar!’

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  Jazz Swingers

  Jewel Theatre Company shines with fizzy ‘20s farce ‘Fallen Angels’

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  Review: Anomalisa

  Puppets act out human malaise in clever, uneven ‘Anomalisa’

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  Film Review: “The Revenant”

  Man vs. man vs. nature in bloody spectacle ‘The Revenant’

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  Film Review: ‘Carol’

  Forbidden female love story unfolds in lush ‘Carol’

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  Film Review: ‘The Big Short’

  Wall St. crash predicted, ignored, in wry exposé ‘Big Short’

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  For Reel: Favorite Films of 2015

  Fact-based tales top my fave films of 2015

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  Inside Out: Film Review of ‘The Danish Girl’

  Actors soar in tender, fact-based transgender story ‘The Danish Girl’

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  Scenes from a Moviehouse: A Brief History of the Nickelodeon

  A brief history of how the Nickelodeon transformed Santa Cruz’s movie culture

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  Whale of Fortune: Film Review, ‘In the Heart of the Sea’

  Stirring story, despite some floundering, in Moby-Dick prequel ‘In the Heart of the Sea’