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Alita: Battle Angel movie review: ‘Rollerblade Runner’ with a Strong Female Character(TM)

Wed, Feb 13, 2019
192 comments

Devoid of personality and soul, this hellish Frankenstein monster of processed entertainment product wallows in a stew of borrowed ideas and imagery and does absolutely nothing fresh with them.

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Downsizing movie review: let’s get small (LFF 2017)

Wed, Dec 20, 2017
4 comments

Absolutely stupendous: smart, funny, poignant, a true original. A thrilling odyssey of ideas that takes its sci-fi concept to the very edges of extrapolation.

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The Legend of Tarzan and Free State of Jones movies review: enough with the white saviors

Mon, Aug 01, 2016
30 comments

Filtering other people’s stories through the eyes of white men is tedious and offensive, and it feels like a desperate hedge against fresh perspectives.

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Big Eyes movie review: painted into a corner

Wed, Apr 06, 2016
7 comments

A bitter feminist fairy tale about a woman betrayed by love and trust and crafted by culture to be vulnerable to the charms of a con-artist husband.

| 7 Comments

Spectre movie review: Bond goes backward

Wed, Oct 28, 2015
14 comments

After a truly spectacular and fresh opening sequence, everyone might as well be enacting a Bond puppet show, which is sometimes unpleasantly retro-icky.

| 14 Comments

London photo: Tim Burton and Christoph Waltz at a Big Eyes Q&A

Mon, Dec 08, 2014
1 comment

Tim Burton has a new flick this holiday season…

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Horrible Bosses 2 movie review: the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad sequel

Mon, Nov 24, 2014
8 comments

It’s not funny, only its villains speak truth, and its putative heroes are now the horrible bosses… though the movie doesn’t seem to realize that.

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The Zero Theorem movie rating: yellow light

Mon, Jul 21, 2014
1 comment

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 85th Academy Award nominees

Tue, Feb 12, 2013
4 comments

With links to my reviews. I’ll be adding reviews of the last few films I haven’t yet covered between now and the Oscars.

| 4 Comments

question of the day: What do you think of the Golden Globe winners (and losers)?

Mon, Jan 14, 2013
7 comments

Feel free to talk about the TV side as well, if you like…

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