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Bullet Train movie review: total derailment

Sat, Aug 06, 2022
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The cast is, on paper, terrific, but there’s nothing engaging in their bloody savagery. A misfire of a supposed action comedy, this mind-numbing mess is by turns grating, tedious, and infuriating.

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Shirley movie review: lost girls gone mad

Wed, Jun 10, 2020
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A beautiful-ugly film, a work of domestic gothic grotesquerie, of women’s suffocation and sacrifice, pain and isolation. Elisabeth Moss’s performance is next-level glorious in its wackadoo intensity.

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Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero movie review: dogged soldier

Mon, Apr 09, 2018
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In this centenary year of the end of World War I, this story of a real-life dog who served in the trenches is a gentle, engaging way to introduce kids to an essential piece of history.

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why Anthony Ingruber *must* be young Han Solo in the Star Wars spinoff

Wed, Jan 13, 2016
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He doesn’t only look and sound like Harrison Ford, he’s got the charm and the presence for the role.

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Fury movie review (London Film Festival)

Mon, Oct 20, 2014
50 comments

A particularly ugly iteration of “war is hell”… and I mean that as a compliment. This is a film that is deeply unpleasant and near genius.

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Noah review: The Bible Episode IV: A New Hope

Sun, Mar 30, 2014
31 comments

A Biblical action disaster fantasy epic that is completely bonkers, endlessly entertaining, and actually religious in that inspiring-and-instructional way.

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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters review: clash-of-the-titan babies

Tue, Aug 06, 2013
12 comments

Spectacularly mediocre fantasy junk food, perfectly inoffensive for youngsters but too featherweight for adult genre fans.

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who are the most interesting young actors (male and female) working today?

Mon, Aug 05, 2013
30 comments

My picks: Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Radcliffe…

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The Three Musketeers (review)

Thu, Oct 13, 2011
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It is leaden where it should be light. It is graceless and charmless. It reels from the painful banter. It is the epitome of empty soulless corporate filmmaking.

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female gazing at: Luke Evans

Tue, Sep 28, 2010
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You will definitely be hearing more about this Luke Evans guy. When I saw him in Tamara Drewe, wherein he plays the hunky gardener, I just about swooned.

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