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Angel Has Fallen movie review: and it can’t get up

Wed, Aug 28, 2019
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A sad retread of The Fugitive. Dumb, pointless, confused, full of contempt for its audience, and laughably unable to convince us that Gerard Butler is an acceptable stand-in for Harrison Ford.

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William movie review: weird — and dangerous — science

Thu, Apr 25, 2019
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Plays with its let’s-clone-a-Neanderthal plot like it has no idea of the horrors involved and no appreciation of the ethical questions it raises. (Paging Ian Malcolm!) A tremendous missed opportunity.

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Mechanic: Resurrection movie review: the Jessica Alba-centered fanfic that makes this work

Mon, Aug 29, 2016
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It’s supposed to be intense, but it’s just silly. Unless it’s secretly about one woman ridding the world of notorious arms dealers through sly manipulation.

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Jason Bourne movie review: Bourne again, but why?

Tue, Jul 26, 2016
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Everything looks great on paper here: Damon’s brawny presence; the smartly staged action, etc. And it’s not unfun. But it feels less black ops than old hat.

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Taken 3 movie review: give it back

Fri, Jan 09, 2015
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This is a movie as its own death wish. To call it cheap, lazy, and perfunctory grants it a dignity that implies there was another path it could have taken.

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The Family trailer: you can take the mobster out of Brooklyn…

Tue, Sep 03, 2013
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Awww. The family that commits crime together goes into witness-protection together.

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a feminist film critic defends the Onion’s Quvenzhané Wallis tweet

Mon, Feb 25, 2013
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Yeah, I’m going there.

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the 85th Academy Award nominees

Tue, Feb 12, 2013
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With links to my reviews. I’ll be adding reviews of the last few films I haven’t yet covered between now and the Oscars.

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Hope Springs (review)

Thu, Sep 27, 2012
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Dazzlingly graceful as a narrative and brutally frank emotionally, while still also working as a piece of popcorn entertainment.

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watch it: if Wes Anderson made Men in Black III

Mon, May 28, 2012
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Mash up the trailers for Men in Black III and Moonrise Kingdom, and it becomes a nice little exercise in how much music and color impact mood.

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