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Magic Mike’s Last Dance movie review: hustle and grind

Sun, Feb 12, 2023
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Do you find Channing Tatum dance-grinding appealing? There’s not much of that here. There’s just the tedious grinding of dragging out yet another sequel in the face of diminishing franchise returns.

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Reminiscence movie review: remembering it for you retail

Fri, Aug 20, 2021
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A cautionary tale about getting mired in the past is itself hamstrung by what has come before: overplayed noir tropes and underbaked sci-fi ideas. The fab cast at least elevates this to the mediocre.

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One Night in Miami… movie review: the past, still prologue

Mon, Apr 19, 2021
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An electrifying philosophical fantasia that imagines four towering figures of 1960s America arguing over how to navigate racism as Black men. Enraging, but also thrilling, bursting with cinematic joy.

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Moonlight

Moonlight movie review: the empathy machine in action (but only if you’re watching)

Wed, Nov 16, 2016
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Luminous and plaintive, Moonlight is emotional virtual reality, transforming a unique human experience into something universal and unforgettable.

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

Fri, Jan 22, 2016
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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.

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Chef movie review: very tasty

Fri, Jun 27, 2014
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Jon Favreau’s midlife artistic crisis rendered as food porn. Funny, poignant, and wise, though the wish-fulfillment romantic fantasy of it is a tad much.

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Plastic review: movie declined

Fri, May 02, 2014
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Preposterous and charmless, this heist flick purports to be based on a true story and hopes to invoke a Robin Hood vibe, but I’m not buying any of it.

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Pain and Gain review: American nightmare

Tue, Aug 27, 2013
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A bleak, bitter, wicked pleasure that holds up the underpinnings of modern America — self-help, Jesus, and violence — for ridicule.

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Step Up 4: Miami Heat (aka Step Up Revolution) movie review

Thu, Aug 09, 2012
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The dancing is fantastic, but the moment the dancing stops, it’s actively insulting and absurdly naive, and then stumbles into the howlingly ridiculous…

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New in Town (review)

Fri, Jan 30, 2009
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As generic as its title while also yawningly idiotic in its own unique way…

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