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Regression movie review: no thanks for the memories

Tue, Feb 02, 2016

Amenábar aims for a noirish X-Files vibe, but preposterousness rules this inert trudge that does absolutely no justice to a terrible real-life phenomenon.

Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts (88th Academy Awards) review

Mon, Feb 01, 2016

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“A Girl in the River” masterfully portrays a culture that justifies killing women, its rage subsumed by a dispiriting account of how its customs are perpetuated.

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.

Oscar Nominated Live-Action Shorts (88th Academy Awards) review

Fri, Jan 29, 2016

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“Day One” is a wartime drama the likes of which we have not seen before, with a marvelous Layla Alizada as an interpreter with U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi movie review: American mercenary

Fri, Jan 29, 2016

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Michael Bay propagandizes for a right-wing idea of “true America,” seething with disdain for anyone who isn’t a former elite soldier turned mercenary.

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.

The 33 movie review: swallowed up by the earth

Wed, Jan 27, 2016

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A missed opportunity to tell what should be a captivating real-life disaster tale that is instead plodding, scattershot, and lacking in dramatic impetus.

The 5th Wave movie review: disaster movie, in more ways than one

Fri, Jan 22, 2016

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Lazy and trite, with a passive protagonist. It’s as if no one here understands the appeal of the postapocalyptic YA genre it is attempting to piggyback on.