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REVIEW: Split Is An Unfortunate Backslide for Shyamalan
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James McAvoy is a scene-chewing delight, but the rest of M. Night Shyamalan's cast suffers from a weak script.
REVIEW: Monster Trucks Wants To Be Encino Man – & That’s A Good Thing
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Unrepentantly absurd and unstoppably fun, Monster Trucks is exactly the kind of kids' movie you want to see at the movies.
REVIEW: Ben Affleck Misfires In Tepid Gangster Drama Live By Night
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Bogged down with confounding details and crudely carved characters, Live By Night rumbles by like its shiny convertible cars, with a sleek exterior but a bumpy ride.
Review: Silence Tests Audience Faith and Patience
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Starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Liam Neeson, Martin Scorsese's historical drama is a mystifying and oddly unmoving exploration of spirituality and humanity.
REVIEW: Passengers Soils Its Escapism With Repulsive Reveal
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Passengers' promised romance between Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt is bungled in a spectacularly sexist fashion.
Review: Assassin’s Creed Can’t Kill The Video Game Movie Curse
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You might expect some decent action scenes, even if the story falls flat. We have some bad news for you...
REVIEW: Charismatic Rogue One Cast Smooths Out A Rough Star Wars Story
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Donnie Yen and Alan Tudyk's performances help smooth out Rogue One's rough spots, but can't fully salvage the first Star Wars standalone film.
REVIEW: Disney Delivers A Charm-Bomb With Moana
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Moana surges with sensational songs, lovable heroes, and messages that promote responsibility, forgiveness, bravery and resilience.
REVIEW: Shut In, Like The Babadook But Stupid & Never Scary
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Free yourself from the banality of Shut In and do literally anything else with your time.
REVIEW: Star-Studded Arrival Brings Mood But No Thrills
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How do you make sense of the unimaginable? That's the question at the core of Arrival, but the answer slogs rather then engages.
REVIEW: Doctor Strange Fails To Live Up To MCU Standards
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Perhaps the best thing to come from Marvel's latest film is Stephen Strange's autonomous, flowing cape.
REVIEW: Damning Tom Hanks’ Inferno with Faint Praise
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Despite the overall film's overall weakness, it's still a delight to watch America's Dad race to save the world from terrorism and chaos.
REVIEW: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Should Have Taken Its Own Advice
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Tom Cruise's Reacher is so stoic he could be made of Styrofoam for much of his close-ups.
REVIEW: Ouija: Origin of Evil Will Scare You Witless
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Director Mike Flanagan took on an impossible property and turned it into a monstrously satisfying film.
REVIEW: Affleck’s The Accountant Doesn’t Add Up
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Affleck ditches the cape and cowl to play a hero with a "supernatural" proficiency at crunching numbers, and the results are not good.
REVIEW: The Girl On The Train Is No Gone Girl
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Despite its rich source material, The Girl On The Train struggles to craft a single compellingly complex character.
REVIEW: Miss Peregrine’s Makes You Wonder What’s Become of Tim Burton
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Where the director's work was once imaginative, wonderfully weird, and emotionally rich, this is another lamentably forgettable film in Burton's oeuvre.
Review: The Magnificent Seven Will Make You Rethink Your View of Remakes
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Director Antoine Fuqua and his star-studded ensemble bring a modern edge to this classic Western tale of revenge and redemption.
Blair Witch Review: The Sloppy Sequel No One Asked For
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The new "Blair Witch" film is "impossibly stupid" and doesn't come close to what made the original so special.
Zoom Review: Silly, Sensational Film Demands to Be Discovered
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Director Pedro Morelli pairs Alison Pill and Gael García Bernal with a "mind-bending premise" that's "uniquely sensational."
Review: Don’t Breathe Will Leave You Exasperated, Not Breathless
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While the film's mean-spirited brand of horror is fearlessly gruesome, that doesn't make it satisfying -- or even all that scary.
REVIEW: “Suicide Squad” is Exactly What DC’s Film Franchise Needs
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Warner Bros.' "Suicide Squad" overcomes flaws in its plot via "characters, stunts, and its own unapologetically strange brand of humor."
REVIEW: Otherwise Solid “Batman: The Killing Joke” Falls Apart in Handling of Batgirl
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"The Killing Joke" attempts to retell a classic story for a modern audience, and while its intentions are laudable, it doesn't quite stick the landing.
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of The Shadows” Outshines Its Predecessor, But Has Major Missteps
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The sequel gives us Turtles we can cheer for, but has serious issues when it comes to its human characters, April O'Neil in particular.