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Red 2

My Spy movie review: and you can keep him, little girl

Thu, Jun 25, 2020
3 comments

A “family” comedy about nuclear terrorism, the incompetent CIA agent on the case, and his 9-year-old sidekick. Desperately unfunny, thoroughly misjudged. We are in the worst and the dumbest timeline.

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things wot we learned from the 2013 summer movies

Fri, Aug 30, 2013
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Have you been paying attention to what the movies have been saying — what the movies have really been saying — all summer? Here’s a refresher.

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Red 2 review: global positioning

Fri, Aug 09, 2013
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Smart, breezy spy action, with an of-the-moment vibe that takes it post-post-9/11 and into the Wikileaks era of global politics.

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no Lone Ranger review from me for a while yet

Mon, Jul 08, 2013
4 comments

Or The Heat. Or White House Down. Or Grown Ups 2. This is because these films don’t open in the U.K. for weeks and weeks still.

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Red 2 trailer: please let it be as good as the first

Wed, Jul 03, 2013
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This is the minimum we are owed. If Hollywood would rather make sequels than tell new stories, those sequels had sure as hell better be damn good.

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