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Harry Potter

The House with a Clock in Its Walls movie review: good witches and not-so-good witches

Tue, Sep 18, 2018
10 comments

Charming entry-level spookiness and nicely old-fashioned eeriness for budding fright fans. A disarmingly goofy Jack Black and a vamping-it-up Cate Blanchett meet in a comic middle that is perfectly pitched.

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Ready Player One movie review: trivial pursuit*

Thu, Mar 29, 2018
118 comments

A nightmare of nothingness, of empty, soulless wankery, that serves only to reassure male dorks that their pop-culture obsessions make them special, and will make cute girls like them.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge (aka Dead Men Tell No Tales) movie review: yo ho no

Tue, May 23, 2017
44 comments

The franchise finally overstays its welcome with this cacophony of CGI spectacle, a contrived and confusing plot, and a newly cruel and stupid Jack Sparrow.

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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword movie review: well I didn’t vote for him

Mon, May 22, 2017
13 comments

Derivative, rote, devoid of heart and hope. Guy Ritchie has found no reason to retell Arthur’s story, or to render a mythic hero as a self-serving thug.

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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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curated: why don’t you remember any of the music from Marvel movies?

Tue, Dec 13, 2016
16 comments

The answer is incredibly depressing…

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curated: we are all only in Harry Potter book 4 right now

Sun, Dec 04, 2016
3 comments

Like, the Death Eaters have hardly even shown up yet.

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie review: reparo movens ad imaginem

Thu, Nov 17, 2016
24 comments

Forget about magical creatures: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them could use some help finding itself, and in figuring out who its protagonist is.

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curated: an American muggle at Hogwarts…

Mon, Nov 07, 2016
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…and he’s the new IT guy.

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Girls Lost (Pojkarna) movie review: girls found

Fri, Nov 04, 2016
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A beautiful film with a wonderful young cast that flows with sinister sorcery and tender sympathy for the physical and emotional upheavals of adolescence.

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