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Show Dogs movie review: everything is awful

Fri, May 18, 2018
18 comments

Embarrassingly bad CGI; pratfalls; genital humor; denigration of cat ladies; horrible clichés and stereotypes. This is the cinematic equivalent of stepping in dog poop. You know, for kids!

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The Last Laugh documentary review: punching Nazis (with comedy)

Fri, Mar 03, 2017
10 comments

Analyzing jokes can ruin humor, but not here. This is a provocative, hilarious, and important discussion of comedy taboos, who gets to transgress them, and why.

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Frank & Lola movie review: the pain of men (it’s all women’s fault)

Thu, Dec 08, 2016
8 comments

Ridiculous coincidence drives the plot, but a reliance on outdated notions of gender expectations is what makes this neonoir such an infuriating experience.

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Jason Bourne movie review: Bourne again, but why?

Tue, Jul 26, 2016
6 comments

Everything looks great on paper here: Damon’s brawny presence; the smartly staged action, etc. And it’s not unfun. But it feels less black ops than old hat.

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Good Kill movie review: American droner

Fri, May 15, 2015
7 comments

There are important issues running through this, but the film forgets to be sufficiently engaging in the course of being Significant.

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Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 movie review: stupor hero

Mon, Apr 13, 2015
13 comments

Hard to believe, I know, but this is a real movie that real people have unashamedly put their names to. Because a sweet paycheck trumps human dignity.

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Wild Card movie review: hardboiled rotten egg

Mon, Mar 23, 2015
2 comments

Piles of noirish exposition get the better of Jason Statham in this unpleasantly retrograde crime drama. What happened in Vegas should have stayed there.

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Step Up 5: All In (aka Step Up All In) movie review: dance fever

Thu, Jul 31, 2014
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Astonishingly athletic dancers express crazy-hot modern choreography, strung together by a flimsy narrative. Kinda like old-school Hollywood musicals did.

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Paradise review

Fri, Oct 18, 2013
3 comments

Diablo Cody has a new movie… but you’d hardly know it was her work, for all the bite it lacks.

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The Hangover Part III review: get pissed

Fri, May 24, 2013
19 comments

It’s like they realized they never should have made a sequel, so for Part III, they didn’t even bother to make a Hangover movie at all…

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