Tag: reviews
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Review: Hilarious ‘Game Night’ Has Jason Bateman And Rachel McAdams Playing To Win
If you’re going to take game night “up a notch”, then mimicking David Fincher is a good way to do it. Game Night finds a bunch of boring suburban couples placed in what amounts to a comedic version of Fincher’s 1997 thriller, The Game, with references to some of his other films such as Fight…
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John’s Take: ‘Black Panther’ starring Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan
Ten years into the Marvel Cinematic Universe and finally the Black Panther, a staple of the Avenger’s animated films that pre-dated the MCU, has come into his own with a solo film. After blowing the doors off Captain America: Civil War with a standout debut T’Challa is back to take us deep into the heart…
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Review: ‘Early Man,’ Starring Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, and Timothy Spall
Maybe you don’t know Aardman Animations by name; in the United States, they don’t have the instant recognition of Pixar or Disney. But chances are you know the UK studio’s distinctive stop-motion clay-animation work, like the characters Wallace and Gromit, their first major hit “Chicken Run,” and the recently charming “Shaun of the Sheep.” Their…
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‘Black Panther’ Review: Long Live Marvel’s New King!
A few days ago my sister, in a text that made me question whether we were truly siblings, asked me if Black Panther was a superhero movie or if it was about the Black Panther movement. When told it was the former, she responded with, “People are acting like it’s about the movement.” And I…
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Review: Clint Eastwood’s Bafflingly Messy ‘The 15:17 To Paris’
You know how at the Oscars when they announce Best Picture, it’s never the people you know from the movie who get up to accept the award? It’s always the producers, who are responsible for overseeing the whole production, including the actors, writers, and directors. The producers take the responsibility and ownership of the movie.…
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Review: Netflix’s ‘The Ritual’ Starring Rafe Spall, Robert James-Collier, and Arsher Ali
Netflix has been on the ball recently. Not only are they the masters of high profile TV, but they’ve also been acquiring big movies left and right. Their formlessness is their power. On Netflix, a story teller can focus on an individual plot for a 30 minute one-off anthology episode, a two hour movie, or…
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Review: ‘Peter Rabbit’ Starring James Corden and Domnhall Gleeson
The classic children’s story of a mischievous rabbit named Peter (voiced by James Corden) and the grumpy old farmer from whom he steals vegetables. The beautiful images from the storybooks are seared into the nostalgic minds of most bringing reminders of a simpler time when choosing which crayon tasted the best was all that mattered.…
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Review: ‘Entanglement’ Starring Thomas Middleditch, Diana Bang, And Jess Weixler
The new film Entanglement is wonderfully dark comedy. And when I say dark, I mean dark. For example, the film opens with a surprisingly comic and light-hearted montage of our hero Ben (Thomas Middleditch), a young man just coming off of a particularly rough divorce, trying and failing to commit suicide in a boarder-line slapstick…
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Review: ‘Becks’ Starring Lena Hall, Mena Suvari, And Christine Lahti
Becks is a film about a mid-30’s woman who after breaking up with her girlfriend ends up temporarily moving back home to live with her devoutly Catholic mother. It’s back at home where she deals with coming to terms with the end of her relationship, her continuously strained relationship with her mother, trying to figure…
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Review: Alex Ross Perry’s Miserable ‘Golden Exits’ Will Have You Racing For The Exits
The premise for Alex Ross Perry’s Golden Exits sounds like the setup for either an intense emotional drama or a comedy of manners. If only it were. Perry, an indie darling whose films The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip, and Queen of Earth filtered through various genres the lives of impulsive, unhappy, and talkative people. But…