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Magic Mike’s Last Dance movie review: hustle and grind

Sun, Feb 12, 2023
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Do you find Channing Tatum dance-grinding appealing? There’s not much of that here. There’s just the tedious grinding of dragging out yet another sequel in the face of diminishing franchise returns.

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Smurfs: The Lost Village movie review: how do you solve a problem like Smurfette?

Fri, Mar 31, 2017
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An adventure crammed with junky slapstick and garish animation that seems to believe it is feminist, but only doubles down on Smurfily regressive notions of gender.

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Tumbledown movie review: letting go of the past

Fri, Feb 05, 2016
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A portrait of grief that borrows the conventions of romantic comedies. There may not be a lot of passion here, but there is plenty of pleasant zing.

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Where Are the Women? Magic Mike XXL

Wed, Jul 01, 2015
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Even a movie that is supposedly “for women” is still all about men. [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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Magic Mike XXL movie review: crotch watch

Wed, Jul 01, 2015
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A cringe-worthy jamboree of dimbulb manflesh that’s even more embarrassing than the first film. If you want a picture of the future, imagine Channing Tatum grinding his crotch in a human face, forever.

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Sabotage movie review: DEAd end gang

Wed, May 07, 2014
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Feels like a cheap action flick and plays like an unintentional call to end drugs prohibition and the idiotic war between cartels and law enforcement.

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