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Locked Down movie review: criminally awful

Fri, Mar 19, 2021
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Ejiofor and Hathaway are game, but they’re grasping for something solid, and don’t find it. A deeply unsatisfying novelty artifact of the pandemic that fails to create a necessary sense of transgression.

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Serenity movie review: gonna need a bigger nope

Thu, Feb 28, 2019
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Accidental hilarity turns ugly in this baffling exercise in genre-hopping that thinks it justifies its Hollywood-typical adolescent-boy attitudes about women, sex, violence, and morality. It does not.

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Allied movie review: movie spies with delicious old-fashioned mystique

Mon, Nov 21, 2016
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An elegant potboiler that judiciously balances psychological and physical suspense, one that feels like a romantic drama from WWII only recently rediscovered.

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Locke review: riding in a car with a boy

Fri, Apr 18, 2014
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We say things like, “Oh, I’d watch that guy read the phone book,” and this is almost that. Except it really is absolutely riveting, and that’s no joke.

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Closed Circuit review: cheating in the War on Terror

Fri, Oct 25, 2013
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Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall are as engaging as ever, and the film raises intriguing issues concerning the “War on Terror”; pity the plot descends into the ridiculous.

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Hummingbird (aka Redemption) review: pity poor Jason Statham

Fri, Jun 28, 2013
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Some of it is hilariously awful, and some is just plain awful. But Statham’s attempt to be taken seriously as an actor is honest, at least.

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