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Avatar: The Way of Water movie review: blueface on a blue planet

Fri, Dec 23, 2022
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The filmmaking craft may be (mostly) astonishing. But the craft must always — always — be in aid of a compelling story populated by compelling characters… and that’s not so much the case here.

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The Titan movie review: bad science, worse science fiction

Wed, Apr 18, 2018
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The science is ludicrous, the story is almost entirely free of drama, and the finale descends into the hoariest, most ridiculous clichés of the genre. But the future smart-house porn is lovely.

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The Keeping Room movie review: a place that women know

Thu, Oct 29, 2015
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Call this a revisionist feminist postapocalyptic historical western home-invasion horror drama. But even that doesn’t quite do it justice.

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Sabotage movie review: DEAd end gang

Wed, May 07, 2014
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Feels like a cheap action flick and plays like an unintentional call to end drugs prohibition and the idiotic war between cartels and law enforcement.

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Sabotage redband trailer: gotta restrain my enthusiasm for this…

Fri, Mar 07, 2014
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David Ayer’s movies need really great actors to pull them off, and I don’t think Arnold Schwarzenegger has the chops for serious drama…

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Wrath of the Titans (review)

Fri, Mar 30, 2012
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And now we learn the secret of that dreadful Clash of the Titans movie from a coupla years back. Its incoherence? Its soullessness? All by design.

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Man on a Ledge (review)

Fri, Feb 03, 2012
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Well. Rarely has a movie been so accurately named. Man on a Ledge is very much about a man on a ledge. And not much more…

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question of the day: If you were stuck on a ledge, how would you waste the time?

Wed, Feb 01, 2012
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And why the heck are you on a ledge in the first place?

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Man on a Ledge (trailer)

Mon, Jan 23, 2012
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Like Snakes on a Plane, only instead of snakes on a plane, it’s a man on a ledge.

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must reads: “Why renters and pirates watch such different movies”

Tue, Nov 08, 2011
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I thought this was gonna be about how different versions of individual movies appear in legitimate and illegitimate content streams. But, no, it’s even better…

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