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Film reviews: New releases for Oct. 9
The Social Reckoning; The Beast; Angel and the Badman; Big Girls Don't Cry; The Lake; Matchbox The Movie
Angel and the Badman ** I’ve beaten up on Zachary Levi more than a bit of late, but in my own defense, he keeps making such weird choices in material for himself. Here he takes on a remake of a 1947 John Wayne Western, playing an outlaw named Quirt in 1860s Texas who finds himself wounded and in the care of kindly rancher’s daughter Penny Worth (Meg Fraser) while trying to evade both the boss he double-crossed (Neal McDonough) and the local marshal (Tommy Lee Jones).
Director Julio Quintana and his writing team want to tell a story about a leopard being able to change his spots thanks to the…
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