Category: Movie Reviews
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The Creator
5 outta 5 The Creator is an excellent sci-fi film that has epic scope, emotionally and visually. Director and co-writer Gareth Edwards is remixing some thematic moments from his previous film, Rogue One, but that’s fine. It is sort of a Rogue One 2.0 war film combined with a different version of his first film,…
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Expend4bles
2 outta 5 Expend4bles is the fourth movie in the franchise, as if the annoyingly nonsensically placed number 4 in the middle of the world Expendables wasn’t enough to clue you in. The series has always been about over the hill action stars going for one final ride, with scattershot results. The 2nd movie is…
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The Expendables 3 (’14 review)
2 outta 5 If measuring by combined weight of the cast, The Expendables 3 is the biggest entry in the franchise, however bigger does not mean better. The first Expendables is a decent ’80s throwback men on a mission flick and the second is an excellently paced, self-aware piece of pop action cinema. Unfortunately, this…
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The Expendables 2 (’12 review)
4 outta 5 The problem with the original Expendables, Sylvester Stallone’s mad genius idea of mashing up post-iconic action movie stars, is that it promised a bit too much and also sagged a bit too much. Expendables 2 manages to be much zipper, move along at a much brisker clip, have better action and spread…
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Expendables vs. Scott Pilgrim (’10 review)
Friday August 13th, 2010 was a strange weekend at the movies, with the kill loving action flick The Expendables and the videogame romantic love fest Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Personally, I was torn between my inner 80s action junkie (“Whoo! Stallone hitting people!”) and the part that really digs Edgar Wright and visual overload…
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Murder on the Orient Express (’17 review)
4 outta 5 Murder on the Orient Express is a big throwback to big stars in a big movie with lots of big acting and big twists and big monologues. Directed and starring Kenneth Branagh, it has the pace of many of his movies as it opens strong, gets pretty chatty in the middle, and…
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A Haunting in Venice
3 outta 5 A Haunting in Venice is the third installment in Kenneth Branagh’s directing and starring series as Hercule Poirot, after Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. The star wattage is decreased considerably each installment; first movie cast is absolutely stacked and by the third not so much. This is…
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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
4 outta 5 You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah is another of Adam Sandler’s various Netflix movies, but he isn’t the star, his kids are. There has been a lot of discourse online about Nepo Babies in cinema, and while having Sandler’s family in a movie he produced isn’t a selling point,…
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Vacation Friends 2
3 outta 5 Vacation Friends 2 offers up pretty much the same amount of entertainment as the first movie, which is fairly enjoyable. The character interactions are basically the same bit where one character is very loud and the other character’s anger boils over. The movie adds a scheming father to the mix which changes…
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Vacation Friends (’21 review)
4 outta 5 Vacation Friends is a fun romp that follows the clash between a straight-laced couple and a wild and crazy couple. The core concept is fairly standard and there’s more than a few creaky comedy tropes but what makes it work is the enthusiasm of the leads. The script is full of dumb,…
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