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Darkest Hour movie review: a surrender to open-and-shut history

Fri, Jan 12, 2018
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A feature-length Oscar clip, two hours of Gary Oldman stomping around in a Winston Churchill suit. There’s too little drama and too much inevitability in what amounts to a reanimated Madame Tussaud’s waxwork scene.

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The Post movie review: printing truth to power

Fri, Dec 29, 2017
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Crackles with life and energy, depicting a grand adventure in journalism from almost half a century ago with vigor, suspense, and an urgent relevance for today.

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi movie review: a great disturbance in the Force

Mon, Dec 18, 2017
241 comments

Upends expectations, demythologizes the mythos, and takes an iconic series in a bold new direction with a story full of humor, courage, and dazzling imagery.

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The Rape of Recy Taylor documentary review: meet the unheralded badass Black women of recent American history

Sun, Dec 10, 2017
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Enraging, and eye-opening, the beginning of the antidote for how Black women’s lives get erased in America. Tells a story that we should recognize as epic.

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11/8/16 (aka November 8th) documentary review: too soon, too soon

Wed, Dec 06, 2017
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An important portrait of America on the day that changed it for the worse… but difficult to watch, with the impact of the election still spiraling out of control.

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Thor: Ragnarok movie review: it’s only the end of the world

Fri, Oct 27, 2017
11 comments

Breezy, jokey, crammed with clever sci-fi ideas; the funniest MCU flick yet. Director Taika Waititi brings a new geeky verve we didn’t realize the series needed.

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The Death of Stalin movie review: the great dictator

Wed, Oct 25, 2017
7 comments

Audacious, outrageous, bleakly funny. Not since Charlie Chaplin sent up Hitler and invited us to laugh at terrible reality has there been a movie like this.

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Geostorm movie review: weather bomb

Tue, Oct 24, 2017
23 comments

Almost hilariously terrible: absurd plot machinations, dubious politics, not a single character to care about. And it doesn’t even give good disaster porn.

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Kingsman: The Golden Circle movie review: deliver us from “edgy”

Mon, Sep 25, 2017
115 comments

Save us from male artists who think they are dangerously, uniquely innovative. This stew of toxic masculinity and CGI-cartoon violence is nothing but tediously mundane.

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American Assassin movie review: we’ve CIAn it all before

Sun, Sep 17, 2017
6 comments

It’s tormented hotheads all around with a hero and villain who are almost indistinguishable and same-old spy stuff racing to a seen-it, been-there ticking-clock finale.

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