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Ricki and the Flash movie review: rocking (down and) out

Wed, Sep 09, 2015

There’s some good stuff here, like the prickly relationships between women at odds with one another, but too much feels too contrived to fully satisfy.

Straight Outta Compton movie review: men’s anger, but only when it makes them righteous

Thu, Aug 27, 2015

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The seething rage radiating from the screen elevates this above similar movies. But that rage is truncated in ways that are hard to ignore.

We Are Your Friends movie review: straight outta the Valley

Wed, Aug 26, 2015

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Not so much a movie as an advertisement for a soft drink or tampons or sneakers or a cell phone for fresh! active! fun! young! people.

The Gift movie review: give it back unopened

Mon, Aug 03, 2015

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Descends into emotional idiocy and insufficient intrigue to end in a disgusting place that presumes that a woman is an appropriate pawn in games men play.

Terminator Genisys movie review: back from the future… again

Thu, Jul 02, 2015

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I have a terrible feeling of deja vu. I have a terrible feeling of deja vu. I have a terrible feeling of deja vu. I have a terrible feeling of deja vu.

The Little Death (aka A Funny Kind of Love) and The Overnight movie review: sex tragi-comedies

Fri, Jun 26, 2015

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Hooray for movies about sex and love that aren’t about teenagers trying to get laid but adults still trying to figure it all out.

Insidious: Chapter 3 and We Are Still Here movie(s) review: gray horror

Tue, Jun 09, 2015

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An unlikely duo of films in which folks way beyond their teens fight hauntings injects a bit of the unexpected into a genre now tediously predictable.

San Andreas movie review: 9.6 on the Ridiculous Scale

Thu, May 28, 2015

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Cornball disaster-porn melodrama… in 3D! Dumb, insulting, and bloodless. It’s Hollywood’s subconscious death wish brought to life, in more ways than one.