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Huevos: Little Rooster’s Egg-Cellent Adventure (Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos) movie review: a cock and balls story

Wed, Mar 16, 2016
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Bad chicken-and-egg puns and indoctrination into animal cruelty as just good fun for everyone involved (including the animals). You know, for kids.

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Dope movie review: not your typical high-school comedy

Mon, Mar 14, 2016
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Not without its problems, but mostly a smart, engaging, bigotry-busting escapade with a hugely appealing young cast and an unflaggingly cheerful optimism.

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The Mermaid (Mei ren yu) movie review: the biggest movie on the planet you haven’t heard of

Fri, Mar 11, 2016
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A wacky fantasy lark, half screwball comedy, half Looney Tunes. Chinese audiences have thrown half a billion dollars at it. Prepare for Hollywood imitators.

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The Divergent Series: Allegiant movie review: walled in by reality

Thu, Mar 10, 2016
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A disappointing downfall from the previous films, the appealing metaphor for nonconformity giving way to dull good-vs-evil battle and dumb plot conundrums.

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Little Boy movie review: faith-based bomb

Wed, Mar 09, 2016
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A shamefully miscalculated tale of whimsy and come-to-Jesus inspiration with a bizarrely inappropriate haze of Norman Rockwell-esque nostalgia.

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Grimsby (aka The Brothers Grimsby) movie review: grim indeed

Fri, Mar 04, 2016
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A soul-crushing experience: lazy, cheap, lurid, and stupid. Painfully unfunny and pointless. Sacha Baron Cohen now panders to those he once rightly mocked.

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The Boy and the Beast movie rating: yellow light

Thu, Mar 03, 2016
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A few instances of gorgeous and magical imagery cannot make up for the lack of genuine emotion or a fresh story. Strictly for devoted anime fans.

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Embrace of the Serpent movie review: mild Amazonian odyssey

Sun, Feb 28, 2016
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More intriguing in its ambitions than in it successes, which are limited, and oddly keeps its distance from the very people it wants to enlighten us about.

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Theeb movie review: a tiny slice of the Great War, through a child’s eyes

Sun, Feb 28, 2016
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A gorgeous, cracking adventure with a smart ring of authenticity, full of pulpy twists and perils, and with a sweetly naive but gruffly charming young hero.

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Rock the Kasbah movie review: whitemansplaining, the movie

Mon, Feb 22, 2016
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Behold Bill Murray as the white savior barreling into a foreign land and teaching the ignorant natives how to be better people. Obnoxious and tone deaf.

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