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Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts (88th Academy Awards) review

Fri, Jan 29, 2016

The wonderfully weird, hilariously morbid “World of Tomorrow” crams in more disturbing, sinister science-fiction ideas than a decade’s worth of blockbusters.

Boy & the World movie review: urban chaos and color

Thu, Jan 28, 2016

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Paints an impressionistic canvas of unease and disquiet, of hope and wonder, filled with glorious music. Magical… though sometimes it’s black magic.

Monkey Kingdom documentary review: growing up in the jungle

Thu, Jan 21, 2016

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Simplistic, but a charming and child-friendly introduction to our cousins in the wild that no zoo could provide, with a monkey heroine whom kids will cheer.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie review: a new hope

Thu, Dec 17, 2015

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Charts a path to a future that refuses to get mired in nostalgia. Yet all the Star Wars notes are here, remixed into a glorious new arrangement.

Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie (aka The Peanuts Movie) movie review: good grief

Wed, Dec 16, 2015

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Of all the potential Charlie Brown movies Hollywood might have made, this might be the Charlie Brown-iest. That’s not necessarily a good thing.

The Good Dinosaur movie review: bad dinosaur, bad

Tue, Nov 24, 2015

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Shamefully banal; such a confused mess that I cannot even figure out what the title is supposed to mean. A slap in the face to Pixar fans after Inside Out.

Goosebumps movie review: stick with the books (LFF 2015)

Wed, Oct 21, 2015

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More theme-park attraction than movie, and paradoxically distastefully self-congratulatory about the Goosebumps phenomenon and insulting toward its author.