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Greenland movie review: a human spin on the end of the world

Sun, Dec 27, 2020
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A same-old tale of apocalypse knows we’ve seen this all before, and so centers human drama over disaster porn. It has nothing new to say, but at least it says it well, with notes of horrific grace.

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Richard Jewell movie review: innocent man, guilty movie

Thu, Dec 12, 2019
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Cluelessly simplistic rendering of a 1990s media injustice ignores all the context in which it happened and demonizes the one journalist who acted professionally. Fails even as a conservative screed.

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Queer Eye S1/S2 television review: self-care for the straight guy

Mon, Aug 27, 2018
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The nicest, kindest critique of toxic masculinity imaginable. The makeovers aren’t only about new clothes and a haircut: they’re about men waking up to a new sense of self, and a new participation in their own lives.

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Baby Driver movie review: common car-nage

Tue, Jul 04, 2017
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Edgar Wright used to send up cinematic clichés with gusto and with huge humor. Here he just embraces them — and his sullen, unengaging hero — unironically.

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Keeping Up with the Joneses movie review: no, let them go

Mon, Oct 24, 2016
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Take True Lies and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Remove wit, sexy charm, and satire on marriage. This is a recipe for a movie anyone wants to see?

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Triple 9 movie review: ordinary criminals

Thu, Feb 18, 2016
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How did a genre-smashing director make a heist thriller so generic, with characters too unlikable to be engaging but not twisted enough to be intriguing?

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Ride Along 2 movie review: don’t get in this car

Fri, Jan 22, 2016
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Dubious police procedures, by-the-numbers buddy-cop-comedy shenanigans, and characters who hate one another, none of which is as fun as it sounds.

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Captive movie review: prisoner of boredom

Tue, Jan 05, 2016
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So inept a film, so bland and monotonous, that it fails even to serve as the blatant ad for the certain Christian motivational book it would appear to be.

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Lila & Eve movie review: rage engaged

Fri, Jul 17, 2015
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When movies like this star the likes of Liam Neeson, they open on 3,000 screens. It’s difficult not to see racism and sexism in the disparity.

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Sabotage movie review: DEAd end gang

Wed, May 07, 2014
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Feels like a cheap action flick and plays like an unintentional call to end drugs prohibition and the idiotic war between cartels and law enforcement.

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