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Angel Has Fallen movie review: and it can’t get up

Wed, Aug 28, 2019
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A sad retread of The Fugitive. Dumb, pointless, confused, full of contempt for its audience, and laughably unable to convince us that Gerard Butler is an acceptable stand-in for Harrison Ford.

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Brian Banks movie review: calling out corruption, mildly

Thu, Aug 15, 2019
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There’s plenty injustice here to enrage the thinking, feeling citizen, but despite a passionate performance by charismatic Aldis Hodge, this docudrama is nowhere near incensed enough on his behalf.

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Robin Hood (2018) movie review: it should be outlawed

Tue, Nov 20, 2018
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Ugly, garish, anachronistic like a small mean child playing with matches, and completely lacking in anything Robin Hood–y: there’s no fun, no romance, no virtue. Instead? Bizarre “aesthetics” and even worse politics.

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Alpha movie review: dog tired

Thu, Aug 23, 2018
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The remarkable Ice Age setting is all that distinguishes — and not by much — a depressingly conventional boy-and-his-dog story.

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Going in Style movie review: pabulum and circuses

Fri, Apr 07, 2017
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Bland, tasteless entertainmentstuff intended to neither move nor offend, and succeeds as such. A sad pile of unfunny nothing that falls painfully flat.

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Ben-Hur movie review: it’s fine, everything is fine

Fri, Sep 09, 2016
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It’s not great. It’s not terrible. It is bland manufactured entertainment product. It’s fine. Hollywood is not creatively bankrupt. Everything is fine.

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from Facebook: now get Morgan Freeman’s voice on your GPS

Tue, Feb 23, 2016
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Lucy movie review: head case

Fri, Aug 22, 2014
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In this pile of adolescent heavy-metal-deep pseudo-sci-fi philosophy, the meaning of humanity depends on how “cool” something looks onscreen.

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Transcendence review: AI yai yai

Fri, Apr 18, 2014
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The neo-luddite attitude is bad, but this commits a far worse sin: it’s dull. If only it worked as a schlocky pile of pulp nonsense, that’d be something…

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Now You See Me review: popcorn with glitter on top

Fri, Jul 05, 2013
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Most of it makes no sense at all, but who cares? This is cheerful ridiculousness pulled off with panache.

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