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The Danish Girl movie review: sometimes it’s hard to be a woman

Wed, Jan 13, 2016

Safe, conventional, and not particularly sympathetic to women, cis or trans. Mistakes the external signifiers of femininity with actually being a woman.

Captive movie review: prisoner of boredom

Tue, Jan 05, 2016

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So inept a film, so bland and monotonous, that it fails even to serve as the blatant ad for the certain Christian motivational book it would appear to be.

90 Minutes in Heaven movie review: God-awful

Mon, Jan 04, 2016

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So deeply terrible that it will make you question the existence of God. The dialogue is the least natural I’ve ever seen in a film not made by Ed Wood.

The Revenant movie review: an extreme walk in the woods

Mon, Dec 28, 2015

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High-toned body horror that emotionally and tonally starts on one note and never deviates from it, which becomes rather exhaustingly dull.

The Big Short movie review: first thing we do, let’s kill all the bankers

Tue, Dec 22, 2015

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An infuriating yet entertaining look at the “other guys” of the 2008 financial crash. You will want to weep. While you’re laughing! *sob*

In the Heart of the Sea movie review: here be monsters (and whales)

Wed, Dec 09, 2015

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Solid, old-school man-versus-nature adventure melodrama, with a simmering green awareness; rollicking, smart, breathtaking, and sobering.

The Letters (aka Letters from Mother Teresa) movie review: utter nunsense

Mon, Nov 30, 2015

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A fatuous argument for Mother Teresa’s sainthood; credulous and willfully ignorant, and disregards everything about her beliefs that was nasty or skeptical.

Black Mass movie review: men behaving badly… again

Wed, Nov 25, 2015

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A solid execution of a familiar tale, crammed with a likable, watchable cast. But it doesn’t have anything new to say about why men do despicable things.