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Jumanji: The Next Level movie review: this game needs to be over

Wed, Dec 11, 2019
7 comments

It’s more of the same tedious nonsense, all action sequences bereft of excitement and body-swap comedy minus any real laughs. An abysmal lack of fun with stakes way too low to generate much suspense.

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The Secret Life of Pets 2 movie review: gone to the dogs

Fri, May 31, 2019
1 comment

Underwhelming: episodic, a random collection of unconnected vignettes rather than one cohesive story. Inoffensive, but missing the first movie’s fantastical animals’ perspective on the human world.

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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle movie review: jungle feeble

Tue, Dec 19, 2017
12 comments

Culturally clueless cinematic vomit, a cynical undertaking embracing the most diminishing clichés it can apply to its characters. Low stakes, and low humor.

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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie review: a brief look at the long and the shorts of it

Fri, Jul 21, 2017
2 comments

Sweet, subversive, and absolutely hilarious, at once a snarky superhero sendup and an unironically joyful celebration of friendship and imagination.

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The Secret Life of Pets movie review: dogs and cats living together…

Tue, Jul 05, 2016
3 comments

Charming. A cleverly constructed and amusingly rendered fantasy adventure that sings with a sweet, wistful devotion to home, family, and friendship.

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Ride Along 2 movie review: don’t get in this car

Fri, Jan 22, 2016
3 comments

Dubious police procedures, by-the-numbers buddy-cop-comedy shenanigans, and characters who hate one another, none of which is as fun as it sounds.

| 3 Comments

Get Hard movie review: go directly to jail

Thu, Mar 26, 2015
12 comments

All the comedic and visual elan of an amateur YouTube fratboy prank, including nonstop rape jokes and rampant homophobia. Are you laughing yet?

| 12 Comments

The Wedding Ringer movie review: manfriendwhore for sale

Fri, Feb 20, 2015
17 comments

A festering pile of fatphobic, homophobic, sexist, grossout garbage in which men are manipulative liars but women are worse.

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