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Avengers: Endgame movie review: with a bang *and* a whimper

Wed, May 01, 2019
148 comments

A miraculous blend of grief and humor. Big, bold, brash, then sneakily meta. I am only starting to get my head around the emotional and creative right-hook of it. A fitting end (for now) to the MCU.

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Robin Hood (2018) movie review: it should be outlawed

Tue, Nov 20, 2018
42 comments

Ugly, garish, anachronistic like a small mean child playing with matches, and completely lacking in anything Robin Hood–y: there’s no fun, no romance, no virtue. Instead? Bizarre “aesthetics” and even worse politics.

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Widows movie review: the women left to clean up men’s messes (LFF 2018)

Fri, Nov 09, 2018
29 comments

A heist movie that is gripping and badass, elegant and assured. You could ignore all the social-justice-warrior stuff and just enjoy this as a popcorn thriller. But what makes this so special is how it reexamines the genre’s clichés.

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Ocean’s Eight movie review: revenge of the women

Thu, Jun 14, 2018
26 comments

Breezy fun that sticks a shiv into Hollywood’s — and the larger culture’s — disdain for women. Wonderfully subtle comic performances from a great cast having a ball make for a perfectly suitable light diversion from the world right now.

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Solo: A Star Wars Story movie review: where has our scoundrel gone?

Wed, May 23, 2018
89 comments

A Star Wars–flavored juice drink* of a movie (*contains 10% real juice) that tells us nothing of significance we didn’t already know about Han Solo, in an incarnation that lacks his essential charisma and precarious danger.

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The Hurricane Heist movie review: ’tis an ill wind that blows no minds

Thu, Apr 05, 2018
5 comments

A peanut-butter-in-my-chocolate movie, this Die Hard meets Twister monster is so ludicrous it comes all the way back around to being awesome and hilarious.

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The Vault movie review: where the money is haunted

Thu, Sep 07, 2017
1 comment

Psychologically risible and paranormally inconsistent heist horror gives us not a single character to like or root for, or even to cheer dying.

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Logan Lucky movie review: a waste of a heist

Fri, Aug 25, 2017
5 comments

Fun enough and diverting enough while you’re in the middle of it, but hints of something much richer and more satisfying dangle just out of its reach.

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Overdrive movie review: dumb and dubious

Tue, Aug 15, 2017
12 comments

More plot holes than plot, this overly convoluted, deeply stupid Fast and Furious wannabe is crammed with clichés and memorable only when it’s laughable.

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Bad Santa 2 movie review: been there, done that, licked the candy cane lasciviously

Thu, Nov 24, 2016
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Hard to believe it took 13 years to get a sequel to our screens and still have it show not a hint of Bad Santa’s inspiration or subversion.

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