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Pacific Rim: Uprising movie review: robot smash

Mon, Mar 26, 2018
7 comments

Enormously likable characters make this feel like a big friendly rambunctious dog that you can’t help but get a kick out of, but it fundamentally misunderstands the appeal of its predecessor movie.

| 7 Comments

Overdrive movie review: dumb and dubious

Tue, Aug 15, 2017
12 comments

More plot holes than plot, this overly convoluted, deeply stupid Fast and Furious wannabe is crammed with clichés and memorable only when it’s laughable.

| 12 Comments

Fast & Furious 8 (aka The Fate of the Furious) movie review: notes from the critics’ ward

Wed, Apr 12, 2017
17 comments

EMPs and nukular codes and cyber crap and submarines, oh my! “What does this have to do with us?” Michelle Rodriguez cries, and I’m like I know, right?

| 17 Comments

why Anthony Ingruber *must* be young Han Solo in the Star Wars spinoff

Wed, Jan 13, 2016
2 comments

He doesn’t only look and sound like Harrison Ford, he’s got the charm and the presence for the role.

| 2 Comments

The Longest Ride movie review: romantic bargaining

Mon, Jul 20, 2015
1 comment

For once, a movie based on a Nicholas Sparks book is populated by relatively realistic people dealing with relationship conflict in realistic ways.

| 1 Comment

Dawn Patrol movie review: total wipeout

Tue, Jun 16, 2015
9 comments

A repulsive and disgustingly manipulative roundrobin of revenge that veers from softcore porn to an emotionally ignorant parody of a family drama.

| 9 Comments

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