Big Al Reviews
Movie reviews and more by Albert DeSantis
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Barbie
5 outta 5 Barbie is a licensed toy adaptation that both celebrates yet, at times quite savagely, parodies the toy brand it is based on. There was always a slightly unsettling, too perfect vibe about Barbie’s world which this movie uses for great effect. The performances are all hilarious with some little snippets of humanity…
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
4 outta 5 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One increases the epic scope of the Mission: Impossible series and, as the series has already been epic in scope, that’s saying something. The Mission movies are pushing about 30 years at this point (the first flick came out in ’96!) so upping the spectacle in…
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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (’15 review)
3 outta 5 There is a lot of nifty set-pieces and narrative trickery in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. It doesn’t have the Brian De Palma weirdness of the first Impossible, the John Woo slow-motion doves of M:I:2, the heart and kinetic kick of J.J. Abrams’ Mission: Impossible III, or the humorous inventiveness of Brad…
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