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Transformers Age of Extinction

Ambulance movie review: dead on arrival

Fri, Apr 01, 2022
3 comments

A screaming deluge of metal and rubber devoid of drama, suspense, and elegance. Instead it’s random vehicular chaos enacted with the same energy of a four-year-old smashing his toys into one another.

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Bumblebee movie review: floats like a butterfly…

Wed, Dec 19, 2018
33 comments

Nostalgic yet not mindlessly retro, a heartfelt girl-and-her-alien-robot-car action-adventure dramedy that hits all the right notes. Hailee Steinfeld is terrific, and there’s nary a whiff of Michael Bay.

| 33 Comments

curated: everything that’s wrong with Hollywood today.

Sun, Jun 25, 2017
3 comments

This is ridiculous.

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basically, Michael Bay is an idiot savant

Sun, Jul 06, 2014
14 comments

I don’t mean that as a compliment, and I don’t think my fellow critic Tony Zhou does either…

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Transformers: Age of Extinction movie review: Everyday Bayism

Mon, Jun 30, 2014
56 comments

Rearranger of space and time Michael Bay has reached a level of aggressive self-actualization that perhaps no other human being has reached before.

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no Transformers review from me today (but it and more reviews are coming over the weekend)

Fri, Jun 27, 2014
15 comments

Including Snowpiercer! (Which I had to cheat a little to get access to.)

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Transformers: Age of Extinction trailer: do they *promise* this franchise is about to go extinct?

Wed, Mar 05, 2014
3 comments

Astonishingly, sexy blonde 19-year-old Nicola Peltz is actually playing Mark Wahlberg’s daughter, not his girlfriend. Progress!

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what movies are you most looking forward to in 2014?

Mon, Jan 06, 2014
21 comments

The calendar has turned, a new year is here, and it’s a good time to look ahead.

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