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2014 theatrical releases

Step Up 5: All In (aka Step Up All In) movie review: dance fever

Thu, Jul 31, 2014
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A series of amazing music videos featuring astonishingly athletic dancers expressing crazy-hot modern choreography strung together by a flimsy narrative. Kinda like old-school Hollywood musicals were.

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Guardians of the Galaxy movie review: empty space

Wed, Jul 30, 2014
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Just another rote space adventure. It’s not actively awful, but there isn’t a single damn thing in the least bit surprising or memorable about it.

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Yves Saint Laurent movie review: underdressed

Tue, Jul 29, 2014
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This biopic of “fashion’s little prince” offers all the elegant precision of a fashion shoot — it’s beautiful, and cold — but lacks a lot of necessary context.

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Very Good Girls movie review: sex negative

Fri, Jul 25, 2014
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An almost complete waste of a talented cast, and all to, apparently, convince teenaged girls that sex isn’t worth the hassle. Say what?

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Begin Again movie review: up tempo

Thu, Jul 24, 2014
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A hugely satisfying ode to entrepreneurial creativity, and a glorious love letter to New York City and the art it inspires. I love this movie so much.

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Earth to Echo movie review: not good enough for me

Thu, Jul 24, 2014
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An inoffensive time-passer for youngsters, but adult genre fans who recall the 80s classics it draws on — E.T. and The Goonies — will be bored.

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Happy Christmas movie review: can’t choose your family

Wed, Jul 23, 2014
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Compulsively watchable. Joe Swanberg is a master of subtle dramatic observation, and his films are unlike anything other filmmakers are giving us right now.

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Hercules movie review: he fights the lion!

Wed, Jul 23, 2014
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Grading on the Ratner Curve, this is a positive triumph. The cheesy clichés are at least passingly entertaining. You could do worse.

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The Zero Theorem movie rating: yellow light

Mon, Jul 21, 2014
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Terry Gilliam descends into near self-parody with this mess of a mind-frak about a mathematical formula for the meaning of life that has little to say.

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The Purge: Anarchy movie review: standing up to power and privilege

Fri, Jul 18, 2014
38 comments

Doubles down on the first film’s angry approach to inequality and violence, and again reflects an image of America that is ugly but only slightly distorted.

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