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

Wed, Feb 19, 2020
3 comments

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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The Man Who Invented Christmas movie review: but would Charles Dickens approve?

Tue, Nov 21, 2017
20 comments

There’s charm and wit in its fanciful depiction of the creative process, but the film downplays the social activism that Dickens fully embraced in his work.

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Colossal movie review: becoming the monster

Wed, May 03, 2017
7 comments

Wonderfully strange and weird and funny and dark and bitter. A deliciously geek-flavored metaphor for how damaged people heedlessly spread around their damage.

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Beauty and the Beast (2017) movie review: ever just the same, never a surprise

Tue, Mar 14, 2017
267 comments

Like a theme-park mounting of the 1991 cartoon, or the blandified pop version of an enchanting signature character tune. A watered-down pastiche of itself.

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A Walk Among the Tombstones movie review: only mostly dead

Tue, Sep 23, 2014
10 comments

Liam Neeson’s good performance only just elevates the general seen-it-before-ness, including a risible appropriation of women’s pain for men’s redemption.

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The Guest movie review: making cheesy 80s sausage

Tue, Sep 09, 2014
35 comments

THE SOFT PRETTY ENGLISH ACTOR: I’m tired of all these damn television costume drama roles. Get me something totally badass.

| 35 Comments

Summer in February movie rating: red light

Tue, Aug 12, 2014
2 comments

Real-life historical drama about a woman artist ignores her work and focuses instead on a tediously tragic romantic triangle.

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