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film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997

Hotel Transylvania 2 movie review: check out and never return

Hotel Transylvania 2 movie review: check out and never return

Fri Oct 16 2015, 06:52pm | 6 comments

Pixels movie review: blue screen of death (please)

Pixels movie review: blue screen of death (please)

Mon Aug 10 2015, 05:43pm | 9 comments

Grown Ups 2 review: Adam Sandler’s Happy Funtime Circle Jerk

Grown Ups 2 review: Adam Sandler’s Happy Funtime Circle Jerk

Sun Aug 25 2013, 07:44pm | 8 comments

no Lone Ranger review from me for a while yet

Mon Jul 08 2013, 03:57pm | 4 comments

Grown Ups 2 trailer: why why why why why why why why?

Grown Ups 2 trailer: why why why why why why why why?

Mon Jul 01 2013, 12:26pm | 4 comments

question of the day: If you were going to invent a new Oscar category à la the MTV Movie Awards, what would it be, and who or what would be the definitive example of a winner?

Mon Jun 06 2011, 08:15am | 0 comments

ugly weekend at the U.K. box office…

Wed Oct 06 2010, 10:30pm | 0 comments

calling bullshit on: ‘Toy Story 3’s miraculous seven-day U.K. “opening weekend”

Wed Jul 28 2010, 03:19pm | 2 comments

calling bullshit on: Owen Gleiberman at EW’s The Movie Critics…

Tue Jul 27 2010, 03:41pm | 2 comments

question of the day: If it’s okay to worry that ‘Inception’ is too smart, where is the worry about movies that are too stupid?

Fri Jul 16 2010, 11:49am | 23 comments

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (review)

Tue Jul 13 2010, 03:42pm | 39 comments

where have all the witty movies gone?

Wed Jun 30 2010, 05:05pm | 9 comments

male gaze alert: ‘Grown Ups’

Wed Jun 30 2010, 03:54pm | 15 comments

question of the day: Is there ever a good reason to open a movie on any day other than Friday?

Mon Jun 28 2010, 12:41pm | 10 comments

question of the weekend: Why hasn’t geek culture grown up?

Sat Jun 26 2010, 10:56am | 14 comments

new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘Knight and Day,’ ‘Grown Up,’ ‘Get Him to the Greek,’ ‘When in Rome,’ more

Fri Jun 25 2010, 12:15am | 0 comments

Grown Ups (review)

Thu Jun 24 2010, 11:42am | 40 comments

trailer break: ‘Grown Ups’

Tue Jun 08 2010, 12:53pm | 5 comments

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