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The 15:17 to Paris movie review: hell on wheels

Mon, Feb 12, 2018
7 comments

Clint Eastwood turns a terrorist attack into a bit of post-hoc reality “entertainment” with the stunt casting of the actual heroes as themselves in a stilted, tone-deaf piece of Christian-American propaganda.

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Fifty Shades Freed movie review: no shades of gray

Fri, Feb 09, 2018
11 comments

My Fifty Shades of Grey fantasy: Anastasia Steele gets a restraining order against Christian Grey, writes a tell-all book about him, and becomes a #MeToo/#TimesUp heroine. Mmm, sexy.

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The Mercy movie review: a sea of troubles

Thu, Feb 08, 2018
9 comments

An unsettling true story smartly told, from a moment in time at once uniquely its own and a harbinger of things to come. Colin Firth is subtle, unflinching, extraordinary.

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Scorched Earth movie review: there’s still room for feminism at the end of the world

Tue, Feb 06, 2018
3 comments

Gina Carano roams a mild yet tedious postapocalyptic wasteland as a bounty hunter, and either you are here for this lady badass of our feminazi dreams, or you are not.

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Peter Rabbit movie review: splat the bunny

Mon, Feb 05, 2018
13 comments

Tosses out the very sentiments that make Beatrix Potter’s work so beloved and so enduring in favor of the sullen bratty championing of cruelty and disenchantment. Nihilistic money-grubbing garbage.

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Winchester movie review: she hosts dead people

Sun, Feb 04, 2018
10 comments

The story of a fascinating woman retold in the most reductive, least resonant way possible, while actually sidelining her. Even cast as a simple haunted-house tale, it’s not even a little bit scary.

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Journey’s End movie review: where the war winds blow

Fri, Feb 02, 2018
2 comments

A descent into the muddy trenches of World War I that is intimate and immediate, melancholy and profoundly moving. An experience as visceral as it is intellectual.

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Adele and Everything After (aka Letting Go of Adele) documentary review: for love of a very special dog

Tue, Jan 30, 2018
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Sensitive, marvelously engaging portrait of the extraordinary relationship between one woman and her service dog. A remarkable story told with intense empathy.

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Early Man movie review: primordial goop

Mon, Jan 29, 2018
8 comments

A huge disappointment, crude and simple compared to Aardman’s earlier, more sophisticated and multilayered work. No satire or subversion, just a bog-standard triumph-of-the-underdog story.

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12 Strong movie review: America enters the “graveyard of empires”

Fri, Jan 26, 2018
5 comments

Tense but never sensationalized action adventure about the first post–9/11 US foray into Afghanistan, an extraordinary culture clash and mashup of medieval and modern technologies.

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