Strong NY Times review. Critic's Pick. So I'll go to the theater.

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Wake Up Dead Man is an excellent film, too. It ever has a slight Christmas bend.

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I was right.

LA Times, Amy Nicholson review:

"Song Sung Blue" couldn't be less cool. But the Sardinas were completely sincere and Jackman and Hudson honor their innocence by playing them straight. (Brewer, however, can't resist a pratfall where Mike trips singing "Cracklin' Rosie" in his skivvies.) Jackman looks and sounds so much like Diamond that the concert scenes feel like top-fleet karaoke, and Hudson more than holds her own, even as her Claire is tasked to stare at her husband with starry eyes that sparkle as much as her silver makeup.

Nicholson & Potts have a strong video review of Wake Up Dead Man.

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Edited: 12/25/2025 at 06:44 PM by Wavewatcher

Spotted a review for "The Plague", which will be at AMC (Vero at least), one showing per day at 4 pm. NY Times:

For whatever reason, movies about adolescence often bathe those memories in golden, nostalgic hues, sentimentalizing painful lessons and viewing them with a fondness only distance can provide. "The Plague," the debut from the writer and director Charlie Polinger, is about as far from that kind of movie as you can get. Thank goodness.

The boys in "The Plague," aged 12 and 13, are enrolled in the Tom Lerner Water Polo Camp in the summer of 2003.

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Water polo seems to be spreading in Florida.

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