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Jeff Goldblum

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom movie review: back to Isla Nublar… again

Thu, Jun 07, 2018
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Hollywood finds a way. To keep telling the same stories over and over again, that is. There’s too much going on in Fallen Kingdom, and yet somehow not enough, either. Still: dinosaurs!

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Isle of Dogs movie review: a breed apart, or a breed too far?

Fri, Mar 30, 2018
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Absolutely delightful and utterly original, with its lovingly crafted stop-motion animation bursting with sweetness but also with a winking mockery. I have just a few caveats…

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Thor: Ragnarok movie review: it’s only the end of the world

Fri, Oct 27, 2017
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Breezy, jokey, crammed with clever sci-fi ideas; the funniest MCU flick yet. Director Taika Waititi brings a new geeky verve we didn’t realize the series needed.

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AWFJ 2016 EDA Awards winners announced

Thu, Dec 22, 2016
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Moonlight leads, with seven awards…

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Hidden Figures movie review: triumph of the black girl geeks

Thu, Dec 22, 2016
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The it’s-about-damn-time true story that puts paid to the notion that only white men had the Right Stuff. Often funny, ultimately feel-good, hugely exhilarating.

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from Facebook: Jeff Goldblum sexily reads a Thor comic

Sun, Sep 11, 2016
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Independence Day: Resurgence movie review: Precis of Report on Readiness of Planet YD56201.3 to Join Galactic Alliance

Wed, Jun 29, 2016
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The Invitation Committee fears that this fictional popular entertainment reflects Human tendencies to illogic, lack of imagination, and rank sentimentality.

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Jurassic World movie review: lack of humility before blockbusters

Thu, Jun 11, 2015
63 comments

I am the prime demographic for this movie, and I found it only sort of inoffensively blah. Chris Pratt: He’s no Jeff Goldblum.

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Le Week-end review: la vie et le bonheur

Wed, Apr 02, 2014
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A marvelous little unpacking of the meaning of happiness, precisely what constitutes it, and how to know whether you’ve found it.

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Le Week-end trailer: ah, Paris!

Mon, Oct 07, 2013
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Ah, Jeff Goldblum! Ah, Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan!

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