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Knock at the Cabin movie review: there appears to be an apocalypse happening

Sun, Feb 26, 2023
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There is only one thing worse than an M. Night Shyamalan movie with a twist ending. And that is one without a twist ending. Feels like a faith-based movie trying to sneak in under a disingenuous wire.

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A Perfect Enemy movie review: terminal rage

Thu, Jul 15, 2021
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Ridiculous excuse for a thriller — obvious, preposterous, ultimately banal — piles on psychological absurdities as it builds from a maddening middle to an enraging crescendo of misogynist nonsense.

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Artemis Fowl movie review: falls foul of itself

Sun, Jun 14, 2020
12 comments

A disaster of a kids’ fantasy caper; feels like it’s making up the plot as it goes. A mishmash of manufactured wonder: characters barely sketched, action seemingly setting up future DisneyWorld rides.

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The House with a Clock in Its Walls movie review: good witches and not-so-good witches

Tue, Sep 18, 2018
10 comments

Charming entry-level spookiness and nicely old-fashioned eeriness for budding fright fans. A disarmingly goofy Jack Black and a vamping-it-up Cate Blanchett meet in a comic middle that is perfectly pitched.

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Bokeh movie review: blurry, lonely lives at the end of the world

Thu, Mar 30, 2017
28 comments

A pretty blur of an apocalypse happens to pretty, blurry people in this dull SF drama. This end of the world brought to you by the Reykjavik Tourist Board.

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CHiPs movie review: they promised chip would happen, and it did

Mon, Mar 27, 2017
17 comments

Toilet humor, cars exploding for no reason, random naked boobies, and gay panic… although, weirdly, also lots of awkward, unerotic nearly naked Dax Shepard.

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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back movie review: don’t go back for the sequel

Wed, Oct 19, 2016
30 comments

Jack Reacher is back. And no one seems to know why. Low stakes, a rote plot, and undistinguished action add up to a pointless and unnecessary sequel.

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Hangar 10 (aka The Rendlesham UFO Incident) movie review: where has all the sci-fi gone?

Fri, Nov 07, 2014
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Found footage has come to be an excuse for storytellers to completely bypass drama, character development, and plot in an attempt to be “authentic.”

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if exposure to violent media influences violence in real life, why isn’t Comic-Con a bloodbath?

Sun, Jul 27, 2014
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The annual celebration of people with superpowers beating the crap outta one another seems to result in only a handful of petty crimes. Any ideas why?

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London photo: entering the Thames Tunnel

Tue, Jun 03, 2014
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Walking into the historic Thames Tunnel…

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