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Edgar Wright

Early Man movie review: primordial goop

Mon, Jan 29, 2018
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A huge disappointment, crude and simple compared to Aardman’s earlier, more sophisticated and multilayered work. No satire or subversion, just a bog-standard triumph-of-the-underdog story.

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Baby Driver movie review: common car-nage

Tue, Jul 04, 2017
79 comments

Edgar Wright used to send up cinematic clichés with gusto and with huge humor. Here he just embraces them — and his sullen, unengaging hero — unironically.

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Absolutely Anything movie review: absolutely appalling

Tue, Aug 18, 2015
6 comments

Subjuvenile and offensive, sentimental and ridiculous. Every attempt at a joke falls flat. Every talent here is wasted. Save yourself.

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Ant-Man movie review: superhero reduction

Mon, Jul 13, 2015
80 comments

Marvel’s tiniest hero stars in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s smallest movie so far, one that loses Paul Rudd’s charm among familiar comic-book action.

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The World’s End review: the very bitter (and lager) end

Fri, Jul 19, 2013
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Its humor is a little more uncomfortable than that of the other Cornetto flicks, and it’s more far satirical, in a far more cynical way, than I ever would have anticipated.

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Edgar Wright is undead-blogging the making of Shaun of the Dead

Sat, May 11, 2013
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The director is posting photos from the ten-years-ago shoot starting today…

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The World's End Nick Frost Simon Pegg

there’s no possibility this movie isn’t awesome (The World’s End trailer)

Wed, May 08, 2013
16 comments

Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright together again for the first time.

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question of the day: What 2013 movie are you most looking forward to?

Thu, Jan 10, 2013
24 comments

Let’s get our geek on for the coming year!

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The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (review)

Wed, Oct 26, 2011
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A soulless CGI-animated remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Without a Harrison Ford to smirk and snark his way through it, natch.

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‘Attack the Block’ is expanding across the U.S. and Canada this weekend…

Fri, Aug 26, 2011
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Not a lot, but some. Detroit, Denver, Nevada, buncha places in the Midwest, Montreal, Baltimore…

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