This week, pop culture critic Richard Crouse reviews new movies: 'Creed III,' 'Luther: The Fallen Sun,' 'Juniper' and 'Enter the Drag Dragon'
This image released by MGM shows Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Creed in a scene from"Creed III."
When things get violent one night in front of a liquor store, Creed runs to safety but Dame goes to jail.In"Creed II" Adonis, , finally stepped away from the long shadow cast by his father Apollo Creed and mentor Rocky Balboa to become his own man. Retired—"I left Boxing," he says."Boxing didn’t leave me."—His career and family life in order, he’s now a celebrity gym owner and boxing promoter.
"Creed III" isn’t really a sports movie. Blows are exchanged, and there’s even a lo-fi training montage—instead of Rocky’s famous run on the 72 stone steps leading up to the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Creed bolts up the Hollywood Hills—but this is more about the trauma of the past revisited in the present, than the action in the ring.
"Creed III," of course, leads up to a showdown between the two frenemies, but as a director Jordan finds a way to make the inevitable fight more personal, more dynamic than the usual boxing movie finale. It’s a knockout climax to a sometimes formulaic, but heartfelt, story of ambition and regret.
"Luther: The Fallen Sun" brings back many of the hallmarks of the beloved TV series.
When her seventeen-year-old grandson Sam , still stinging from the death of his mother, returns home to find the seventy-six-year-old woman living in his house, he isn’t pleased at the prospect of having to look after her, even with the help of a live-in nurse .
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