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Morgan movie review: AI why?

Mon, Sep 05, 2016
1 comment

Eschewing the compelling SF questions it raises, Morgan resorts to violence and would-be cleverness, and makes concrete what it should have left ambiguous.

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Ratchet & Clank movie review: wretched and junk

Thu, Apr 28, 2016
208 comments

Could have been assembled entirely from clips from other movies — mostly the Star Wars prequels — and would have been better if it had been.

| 208 Comments

Love & Mercy movie review: strange vibrations

Wed, Apr 06, 2016
2 comments

Intense, unconventional, often uncomfortable portrait of Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson that transcends the typical clichés about madness and creativity.

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things I learned from this summer’s movies

Sat, Sep 05, 2015
21 comments

Important life lessons, everyone…

| 21 Comments

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

Thu, Aug 27, 2015
6 comments

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

| 6 Comments

San Andreas movie review: 9.6 on the Ridiculous Scale

Thu, May 28, 2015
11 comments

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.

| 11 Comments

Ernest & Celestine review: bear and mouse are friends

Wed, Feb 26, 2014
2 comments

Might be the most ridiculously cute movie I’ve ever seen, in a way that transforms adorableness into something honest and wise and deeply satisfying.

| 2 Comments

Parkland review (London Film Festival)

Thu, Nov 21, 2013
5 comments

This poignant and painful ensemble drama about the lesser-known figures caught up in the JFK assassination reminds us that history happens to regular people, too.

| 5 Comments

cannot contain my excitement for the London Film Festival

Thu, Sep 05, 2013
5 comments

I’m hyperventilating from the array of overwhelming movie awesomeness before me.

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Saving Mr. Banks trailer: Tom Hanks as Walt Disney? oh my god yes

Mon, Jul 15, 2013
8 comments

Also: Emma Thompson and Paul Giamatti in anything, obviously.

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