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Toy Story 4 movie review: recycled playthings… again

Wed, Jun 19, 2019
49 comments

The series’ saving grace is that, with humor and heart so beautifully wise and stunningly rendered (CGI pun intended), even as returns diminish, a new chapter is still warm and smartly entertaining.

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters movie review: gives new meaning to the phrase “disaster movie”

Sat, Jun 01, 2019
48 comments

An absolute mess, and nowhere near enough monster action. Does not give good disaster. No fun at all. Makes me long for guys in rubber monster suits awkwardly sparring. At least you could see them.

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Aladdin (2019) movie review: cave of blunders

Wed, May 22, 2019
47 comments

The romance lacks chemistry, and the villain lacks bite. It seems embarrassed to be a musical, failing to embrace the necessary ineffable daydreaminess. Somehow even more cartoonish as live-action.

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Avengers: Endgame movie review: with a bang *and* a whimper

Wed, May 01, 2019
148 comments

A miraculous blend of grief and humor. Big, bold, brash, then sneakily meta. I am only starting to get my head around the emotional and creative right-hook of it. A fitting end (for now) to the MCU.

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Amazon Adventure 3D documentary review: historical jungle expedition, for science

Wed, Apr 10, 2019
3 comments

Stunning photography — perhaps the last time anyone will haul IMAX cameras into the Amazon — a bit of adventure, and a solid, simple, inspirational science lesson. Everything an IMAX doc should be.

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Dumbo (2019) movie review: you will not believe an elephant can fly

Wed, Mar 27, 2019
28 comments

The most soulless of the live-action Disney remakes yet, weighted down by too many blah characters, too much convoluted plot, unconvincing CGI, and a message that doesn’t say what it thinks it does.

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Welcome to Marwen movie review: toying with our sympathy

Wed, Dec 19, 2018
11 comments

The plastic terror of The Polar Express melded with the kooky charm of Forrest Gump is a bad, sometimes outright icky, way to tell a tale of trauma and recovery, and does a disservice to Steve Carell’s sensitive performance.

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The Christmas Chronicles movie review: the Kurt Russell–as–Santa Claus movie you didn’t know you needed

Thu, Nov 29, 2018
9 comments

Kurt Russell’s hot biker Santa is naughty and nice, but this otherwise discount holiday schmaltz is only half onboard with him.

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They Shall Not Grow Old documentary review: more museum exhibit than movie (LFF 2018)

Sun, Nov 11, 2018
8 comments

There’s a poignant eeriness to this modernization of WWI footage: we are looking into a past that feels touchably close and immediate like never before. But this is a novelty. A solemn one, but a novelty nonetheless.

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Alpha movie review: dog tired

Thu, Aug 23, 2018
43 comments

The remarkable Ice Age setting is all that distinguishes — and not by much — a depressingly conventional boy-and-his-dog story.

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