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Molly’s Game movie review: absolutely aces

Fri, Dec 29, 2017
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Bold, tough, hugely entertaining. Like a new GoodFellas, except about a woman caught up in her own impudence and daring. Jessica Chastain is badass.

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American Made movie review: they’re quite bad fellas, in fact

Mon, Sep 25, 2017
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Style and humor galore, and a hugely entertaining performance from Tom Cruise. But should a true story of immense governmental corruption be quite this fun?

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Logan Lucky movie review: a waste of a heist

Fri, Aug 25, 2017
5 comments

Fun enough and diverting enough while you’re in the middle of it, but hints of something much richer and more satisfying dangle just out of its reach.

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Going in Style movie review: pabulum and circuses

Fri, Apr 07, 2017
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Bland, tasteless entertainmentstuff intended to neither move nor offend, and succeeds as such. A sad pile of unfunny nothing that falls painfully flat.

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CHiPs movie review: they promised chip would happen, and it did

Mon, Mar 27, 2017
17 comments

Toilet humor, cars exploding for no reason, random naked boobies, and gay panic… although, weirdly, also lots of awkward, unerotic nearly naked Dax Shepard.

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Patriots Day movie review: blurry portrait of a city

Mon, Feb 27, 2017
1 comment

Unfocused like a 1970s cast-of-thousands disaster flick, and with little point beyond engaging in bland and easy propagandistic cheering. Boston deserves better.

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Now You See Me 2 movie review: now you don’t

Fri, Jul 08, 2016
8 comments

The delicately balanced foolishness of Now You See Me gives way to impossibly supernatural magic tricks aimed at thwarting the least menacing villain ever.

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Secret in Their Eyes movie review: it should have remained untold

Wed, Feb 17, 2016
1 comment

The 2009 Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film has been given a listless Hollywood makeover, one that wastes Chiwetel Ejiofor’s effortless sincerity.

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Naz & Maalik movie review: best friends, and more

Thu, Jan 21, 2016
3 comments

The stakes feel lower than they should, but as a portrait of youngsters in a tough familial and social position, this is compassionate and engaging.

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Spooks: The Greater Good (aka MI-5) movie review: game of moles

Mon, Nov 30, 2015
12 comments

A ridiculous, rote action thriller, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t entertaining, crammed with all sorts of macho emoting and spy nonsense as it is.

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