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Onward movie review: the Pixar road goes ever on

Fri, Mar 06, 2020
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Don’t let the Pixar curve throw you: familiar this quest may be, but it’s full of magic and wonder and humor and melancholy, and set in a fully realized fantasy world. Not a masterpiece but very good.

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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part movie review: everything is still (mostly) awesome

Thu, Feb 07, 2019
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Our expectations are a lot higher now after the unexpectedly wildly inventive first movie… and this sequel delivers, digging with witty subversion into Hollywood’s glorification of its male heroes.

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom movie review: back to Isla Nublar… again

Thu, Jun 07, 2018
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Hollywood finds a way. To keep telling the same stories over and over again, that is. There’s too much going on in Fallen Kingdom, and yet somehow not enough, either. Still: dinosaurs!

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Avengers: Infinity War movie review: it’s all been leading to this

Fri, Apr 27, 2018
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Ten years of Marvel superheroism culminates in a battle for the universe itself. Exhausting, bitterly humorous, and gripped in a stunning finality, it’s almost too much to take in, yet somehow not enough.

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Alien: Covenant movie review: game over, man

Tue, May 09, 2017
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A rote disappointment. There is nothing shocking or even mildly unexpected here. But there is an ironic weakening of the power of the xenomorphs to terrify.

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 movie review: 2 same 2 spurious

Thu, Apr 27, 2017
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Thinks it’s edgy and transgressive, the punk little brother of all those other stodgy comic-book movies, but it isn’t. It’s just slightly more candy-colored.

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curated: Chris Pratt stunned by all the complaints about ‘Passengers’

Wed, Apr 19, 2017
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Color me not in the least bit stunned.

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Passengers movie review: lost in sexist space

Sat, Dec 24, 2016
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After a few quick nods to the profoundly unethical act at its core, it shrugs it off and uses it as the basis for its fairy-tale romance. This is not okay.

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The Magnificent Seven movie review: a dusty, dry husk of a movie

Sat, Sep 24, 2016
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Humorless, rote, clichéd, and entirely unsurprising. Antoine Fuqua attempts to recapture old Hollywood magic — and fails — rather than create his own.

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Jurassic World movie review: lack of humility before blockbusters

Thu, Jun 11, 2015
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I am the prime demographic for this movie, and I found it only sort of inoffensively blah. Chris Pratt: He’s no Jeff Goldblum.

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