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Nicolas Cage

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent movie review: Cage, staged

Thu, Apr 21, 2022
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Amusing but instantly forgettable, fueled by a self-congratulatory smugness and self-reference. The best bits are the sincere stuff: a scene-stealing Pedro Pascal and a sweetly vulnerable Nic(k) Cage.

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OFCS 2021 awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 25, 2022
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And the winners are…

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Riders of Justice and Pig movies review: rethinking the revenge movie

Fri, Aug 06, 2021
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Two brilliant dramas upend cinematic tropes of male vengeance with precision, patience, and grim humor. These are radical rethinks in emotional maturity surrounding men’s grief, remorse, and shame.

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Military Wives movie review: tired choir dramedy needs to change the tune

Sat, Mar 07, 2020
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So aggressively precisely what you think it is that there’s almost no point in seeing it. Flattens a true story into generic pap that isn’t even that successfully, authentically feel-good, either.

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Color Out of Space movie review: pink elephant

Wed, Jan 22, 2020
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Body-horror SF via Lovecraftian grotesquerie, with a now tedious rampage from Nic Cage. As if a man needs to be influenced by unfathomable aliens to turn to violence. I need more from my pulp fiction.

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AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced

Thu, Jan 10, 2019
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Our most honored films are Roma (five awards), The Favourite (four awards), and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (three awards).

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse movie review: animation gets reanimated

Wed, Dec 12, 2018
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Has a verve rare in big-budget movies at the moment. Fun and fresh and legitimately engages with its source material on the levels of story, visuals, and mythology all at once. It feels like discovering storytelling anew.

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Teen Titans Go! To the Movies movie review: the last action heroes (to get a movie)

Thu, Aug 02, 2018
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The superhero movie we need, and also the one we karmically deserve. A riot of hilariously zippy animation that gleefully shreds the clichés of the genre while also lovingly embracing its self-referential geek experience.

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Mom and Dad movie review: they’re giving the kids something to cry about

Mon, Mar 12, 2018
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A brilliant, if demented, concept could have been The Purge for parenthood, but it is inadequately explored, and then abruptly dropped by a sudden ending. The entire third act of the film is missing.

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Inconceivable movie review: nanny dearest

Tue, Nov 07, 2017
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This preposterous, stilted, often hilariously terrible domestic thriller twists maternal yearnings into a toxic parody of femininity.

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