Ambulance movie review: dead on arrival
A screaming deluge of metal and rubber devoid of drama, suspense, and elegance. Instead it’s random vehicular chaos enacted with the same energy of a four-year-old smashing his toys into one another.
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War Dogs movie review: sob havoc over this gun fun run
A comedy only in the bleakest way, satire only in the sense that the whole world has become a parody of itself. Appalling and amusing in equal measure.
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in praise of Rebel Wilson, and how she messes with Michael Bay’s puny mind in Pain and Gain
It’s almost as if, by virtue of her fatness, Wilson is, in Bay’s mind, removed from the realm of “woman as sex-toy object” and placed back into the realm of woman-as-human-being.
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Pain and Gain review: American nightmare
A bleak, bitter, wicked pleasure that holds up the underpinnings of modern America — self-help, Jesus, and violence — for ridicule.
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is Michael Bay prepping another apology? (Pain & Gain redband trailer)
Maybe if you’re as dumb as the morons this movie is about you’ll find find its mix of taser jokes, midget taunting, and verbal gendered abuse of children amusing.
