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The Call of the Wild movie review: a very good boi (mostly)

Wed, Feb 19, 2020
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An old-fashioned kiddie adventure, sweetly earnest, equal parts scary, funny, exciting, sad, and happy, with only a bit of uncanny valley in its CGI doggo star. Definitely had something in my eye.

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Unicorn Store movie review: a fantastic beast

Tue, Apr 23, 2019
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More movies like this, please: a piquant mix of whimsy and snark; an insistence that it’s not crazy to forge your own oddball path; an embrace of girly uncool. Bring on the weird, difficult women.

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A Happening of Monumental Proportions movie review: no, honey, no

Fri, Sep 21, 2018
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The title is intentionally ironic, and yet still feels like a bad and desperately unfunny joke. The spectacular all-star cast holds their noses and gamely dives in anyway, for the sake of Judy Greer’s directorial debut.

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Megan Leavey (aka Rex) movie review: a soldier and her dog

Fri, Jun 23, 2017
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This deeply satisfying military drama demonstrates that a simple, even familiar story can be powerfully effective when told with big heart and solid craft.

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Get Out movie review: yes all white people

Thu, Mar 16, 2017
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Shattering and deep-down bone-chilling. A viciously unsettling nightmare of race and privilege that carves out a much-needed paradigm shift for genre film.

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Extraterrestrial movie review: no intelligent life on Earth

Thu, Oct 30, 2014
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Utterly empty. It’s aware of the tropes of the new mythos of alien abductions, but makes no attempt to find anything even the slightest bit fresh in them.

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CBGB trailer: punk us

Tue, Sep 17, 2013
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How is this film not huge? Why are fans having to demand they be allowed to see it This is too depressing.

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The Cabin in the Woods movie review: the end of horror

Mon, Apr 09, 2012
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I don’t know how anyone can possibly make a horror movie again. This absolutely genius movie renders all past and future examples of the genre superfluous.

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