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Transformers Age of Extinction

Ambulance movie review: dead on arrival

Fri, Apr 01, 2022
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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
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Nostalgic without being mindlessly retro; a sweet, heartfelt girl-and-her-alien-robot-car action-adventure buddy dramedy that hits all the right notes. Hailee Steinfeld is terrific, and there’s not a whiff of Michael Bay to be found.

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curated: everything that’s wrong with Hollywood today.

Sun, Jun 25, 2017
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This is ridiculous.

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basically, Michael Bay is an idiot savant

Sun, Jul 06, 2014
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I don’t mean that as a compliment, and I don’t think my fellow critic Tony Zhou does either…

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remedying Michael Bay’s failure to adequately ogle Mark Wahlberg in Transformers

Mon, Jun 30, 2014
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Stupid sexist Michael Bay.

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Transformers: Age of Extinction movie review: Everyday Bayism

Mon, Jun 30, 2014
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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
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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
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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
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The calendar has turned, a new year is here, and it’s a good time to look ahead.

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