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The Rhythm Section movie review: out of tune

Wed, Jan 29, 2020
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Poor Blake Lively does her de-glammed best in this poor Xerox of much better Turn The Urchin Into A Spy thrillers. But there isn’t a single human interaction in this hamfisted movie that rings true.

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Captain Marvel movie review: superpowered female SJW invites manbaby nerds to suck it

Sun, Mar 10, 2019
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An indie ethos comes to the comic-book movie, upending the origin story and offering a female superhero who throws out the boys’ rule book, goes her own way, and stalks among us with easy confidence.

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald movie review: the crimes of this movie, though…

Tue, Nov 20, 2018
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It certainly is MORE than the first movie: more incoherent, more confused about who its protagonist is, more crammed with contrivance and coincidence. Even the title is more nonsensical this time.

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

Mon, May 22, 2017
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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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Spy movie review: the other gals

Mon, Jun 01, 2015
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Does some wonderfully seditious feminist things while also being funny as hell. Finally, we are asked to laugh with Melissa McCarthy, not at her.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel movie review: best exotic nonsense

Wed, Mar 11, 2015
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A grownup storybook of a movie spun out of candy-colored nonsense that challenges you to embrace its falseness and deny its romance.

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Black Sea movie review: pirates of the Crimea

Fri, Dec 05, 2014
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An underwater heist of Nazi loot? Awesome. Submarine movies don’t get much better than this intensely suspenseful popcorn adventure.

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Dom Hemingway review

Tue, Nov 26, 2013
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Jude Law is wonderfully deranged and utterly plausible as a rage-filled moron, but the movie leaves him adrift amongst unrealized satire…

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Dom Hemingway trailer: unsexy beast

Thu, Oct 31, 2013
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But with nice hair. Or so he says. I have my doubts.

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Rise of the Guardians (review)

Tue, Nov 20, 2012
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There’s genuine magic here. Dark magic, even. That’s a good thing.

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