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Trolls World Tour

Trolls Band Together movie review: cheerful kindness, weirdified

Fri, Nov 10, 2023
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There is gentle nonstop chaos in the trippy candy-colored assault. Genuinely good-natured, sweet without being sappy, more strange (in a good way) than kids’ movies usually are, and hard to dislike.

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The Lovebirds movie review: breaking up on the run

Thu, May 28, 2020
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The hugely appealing Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani share terrific comic and romantic chemistry and work their everywoman and -man charm to the max. Go-to goofy escapism for, say, a pandemic lockdown.

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Scoob! movie review: Scooby dooby don’t

Tue, May 19, 2020
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A spectacularly scattershot, pandering mess of pulp junk, cheap-looking animation, and poisonous gender dynamics. A charmless cash-grab that can’t be bothered with the slightest stab at originality.

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Trolls: World Tour movie review: a cinematic Rubicon by dint of pandemic coincidence

Tue, Apr 07, 2020
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As pastel and glittery as its predecessor, with a silliness more glorious and less forced. Sweet, smart, sincere… but it doesn’t deserve to be carrying the future of movies on its little shoulders.

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