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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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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 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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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip movie review: born to be mild

Wed, Feb 10, 2016
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Instantly forgettable but inoffensive fluff… you know, for kids. And “inoffensive” is better than can be said for many movies aimed at children.

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Deadpool movie review: origin story with a potty mouth

Tue, Feb 09, 2016
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Callous, crass, unpleasantly smug. Supposes it’s being edgy because its protagonist swears a lot, but it’s like a child saying bad words just to be naughty.

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When Marnie Was There movie review: girls have adolescent angst too

Wed, Feb 03, 2016
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Enchanting, startling; a rare story about a girl at a precarious age. Full of that exquisite Studio Ghibli sorcery that captures the beauty of the ordinary.

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Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts (88th Academy Awards) review

Fri, Jan 29, 2016
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The wonderfully weird, hilariously morbid “World of Tomorrow” crams in more disturbing, sinister science-fiction ideas than a decade’s worth of blockbusters.

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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.

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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.

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The Forbidden Room movie review: leave it locked

Fri, Dec 11, 2015
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A grueling marathon of cinematic masturbation; a mind-numbingly empty exercise in self-conscious style with absolutely nothing to say.

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