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Midsommar movie review: välkommen to weird Ikea

Fri, Jul 05, 2019
1 comment

It’s hard to escape the sense that Ari Aster is getting off on Florence Pugh sobbing and screaming as he fetishizes her terror and torment. And none of it is in the pursuit of any meaning or message.

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Detroit movie review: racism 101 for white people

Thu, Aug 31, 2017
29 comments

Tense, gripping, enraging, but only about things that black Americans already know. This is a primer about racism for white people, and we must pay attention.

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Free Fire movie review: guns a-boring

Mon, Apr 17, 2017
3 comments

A 90-minute shootout that never makes us care who lives and who dies. In attempting to send up a cinematic cliché, this only becomes a tedious example of same.

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why Anthony Ingruber *must* be young Han Solo in the Star Wars spinoff

Wed, Jan 13, 2016
2 comments

He doesn’t only look and sound like Harrison Ford, he’s got the charm and the presence for the role.

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A Royal Night Out movie review: princess hijinks

Fri, May 15, 2015
3 comments

A bit of House of Windsor fan fiction: cute but slight, though the re-creation of London’s citywide VE Day celebrations is kind of amazing.

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remedying Michael Bay’s failure to adequately ogle Mark Wahlberg in Transformers

Mon, Jun 30, 2014
7 comments

Stupid sexist Michael Bay.

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Transformers: Age of Extinction movie review: Everyday Bayism

Mon, Jun 30, 2014
56 comments

Rearranger of space and time Michael Bay has reached a level of aggressive self-actualization that perhaps no other human being has reached before.

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