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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.

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Trolls: World Tour movie review: a cinematic Rubicon by dint of pandemic coincidence

Tue, Apr 07, 2020
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As pastel and glittery as its predecessor, with a silliness more glorious and less forced. Sweet, smart, sincere… but it doesn’t deserve to be carrying the future of movies on its little shoulders.

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my picks for tonight’s 89th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2016’s films)

Mon, Feb 27, 2017
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Now updated with winners…

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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.

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Inside Llewyn Davis review: trying of the human spirit

Fri, Jan 24, 2014
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Hilarious in the Coens’ weird, askew way, but also absolutely crushing. This movie breaks my heart in a hundred different ways.

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Runner Runner review: yawner yawner

Thu, Sep 26, 2013
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Dull and perfunctory, this is a crime thriller that sets itself up as a revenge story but can’t manage to drum up any excitement or suspense, and precious little revenge, either.

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Runner Runner trailer: Ben Affleck can *too* do psychopath

Mon, Aug 26, 2013
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Maybe the rebooted Dark Knight will have a pool of crocodiles at stately Wayne manor.

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Trouble with the Curve (review)

Fri, Nov 30, 2012
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Poor Clint Eastwood! He’s a Gran Torino old coot in a Moneyball world…

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Justin Timberlake, who played that Napster guy in that Facebook movie, is now promoting the new Myspace (and other adventures in social networking)

Tue, Sep 25, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Trouble with the Curve (trailer)

Tue, Sep 11, 2012
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Clint Eastwood does Moneyball in reverse. Except it’s funny cuz he’s an old geezer who doesn’t know how to pronounce feng shui.

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