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Argylle movie review: just argh

Fri, Feb 09, 2024

A vacuous multitentacled exercise in pop-culture marketing, and a crass, confused, charmless showcase for Matthew Vaughn’s goes-to-11 hyperactive “style” of unconvincing CGI and frenetic fight scenes.

Dream Scenario movie review: (un)likely boogeyman

Sun, Nov 26, 2023

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Nicolas Cage is comedic in a dry, subtle, nakedly painful way, playing with his “Cage rage” persona; his performance is profoundly moving. I only wish the film was more deserving of what he’s doing.

Trolls Band Together movie review: cheerful kindness, weirdified

Fri, Nov 10, 2023

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There is gentle nonstop chaos in the trippy candy-colored assault. Genuinely good-natured, sweet without being sappy, more strange (in a good way) than kids’ movies usually are, and hard to dislike.

Overdrive movie review: dumb and dubious

Tue, Aug 15, 2017

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More plot holes than plot, this overly convoluted, deeply stupid Fast and Furious wannabe is crammed with clichés and memorable only when it’s laughable.

Trolls movie review: you can’t stop the cute

Fri, Oct 28, 2016

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Cute and sweet and will put you to sleep, like a diabetic coma, and then it will smack you awake with its relentlessly cheery vivid-pastel optimism.

Doctor Strange movie review: even Marvel is now tired of origin stories

Thu, Oct 27, 2016

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Busy with CGI to hide the emptiness where the emotional core should be. Even the mechanics of getting a man from mere mortal to demigod-in-a-cape are rote.