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Love Hurts
3 outta 5 Love Hurts is a straightforward action romp that gets by on some zippy and messy action scenes and a likable lead. It is sort of rudimentary in its plot, the cliché of a gaggle of elite assassins with each more deadly and quirky than the next is worn out, and the unsuspecting…
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Companion
4 outta 5 Companion is a clever and subversive sci-fi horror thriller about romance, robots, murder and software manipulation. While the notion of someone falling in love with a robotic artificial intelligence has been done in films like Her or Ex Machina, this is still a distinct take. Companion is less about potential robotic apocalypse…
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Ad Vitam
2 outta 5 Ad Vitam is a Netflix French Language action thriller that is considerably short on action or thrills, but those do arrive eventually. The most interesting stuff happens at the start and then a very long exposition flashback that drags into awkward police romance, and then some solid action at the end. In…
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Kraven The Hunter
3 outta 5 Kraven The Hunter is the latest, and potentially final, attempt by Sony Pictures to spin off various Spider-Man characters into their own franchise, without actually using the webbed wall-crawler himself. The Venom series has been consistently fun and wacky throughout all three installments, although it has been more mixed (to say politely)…
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Nutcrackers
4 outta 5 Nutcrackers is one of those comedies about a busy working guy who, for various reasons, must learn to settle down as they inherit guardianship of rambunctious children, which has been done many, many times before. Now Nutcrackers may not get many points for originality, but it does have a sort of chaotic…
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Young Woman and the Sea
4 outta 5 Young Woman and the Sea is a stirring sports drama that is inspired by the true story of a woman from 100 years ago who swam the English Channel, a feat that was an incredible display of athletic endurance. The film is affably performed and features impressive swimming scenes as the audience…
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Trigger Warning
3 outta 5 As far as unhelpful titles go, Trigger Warning is kind of up there because it seems like a parody title. Instead, this is a fairly straightforward action flick. Also, there is a lot of (rather well done) knife battling in this film but inserting the word “trigger” in the title makes it…
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
3 outta 5 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is a decent entry in the Ghostbusters franchise that doesn’t really have the heart and feeling of rediscovery that made Afterlife so vibrant. But this is an excellently paced Ghostbusters movie, even if it sometimes leans a bit serious, but Frozen Empire still has laughs. The role of the…
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Drive-Away Dolls
4 outta 5 Drive-Away Dolls is a crazy road-trip movie featuring crime, severed heads, lots of cameos, lots of quips and lots of sex for its incredibly zippy hour and twenty-four minutes. Directed and co-written by Ethan Cohen (his first film without his brother Joel) it has the bizarre absurdist energy, dialogue patter, dopey crime…
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Role Play
2 outta 5 Role Play is a film that seems like it should be funnier than the premise/title/trailer leads one to believe. Even the tagline, Every Couple Has Their Secrets and the premise seem like a lower budget version of True Lies which handles the action and comedy much more deftly. There are still funny…
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