Reviews
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The Shallows Is the Second Best Shark Movie Since Jaws
Blake Lively fights a shark. What have you ever done? We’ve seen more than a few shark-attack movies since Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster, Jaws, and like…
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Apocalypse Child Finds Beauty and Pain in Paradise
NYAFF 2016 Myths and reality exist apart, but they depend on each other for their very existence. The stories need people to empower them though…
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Twisted Justice Follows a Cop Hellbent on Doing Wrong to Do Right
NYAFF 2016 Police corruption in the real world is a depressing and occasionally devastating thing, but it offers plenty of dark and entertaining material for…
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Intruder Is a Generic Title, But the Movie’s Even Blander
The boredom is coming from inside the house. Home invasion thrillers have an upper hand when it comes to scaring viewers because unlike zombies, monsters, or…
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Why David Seltzer’s ‘Lucas’ Is Essential for Any Movie Lover
“If you’re so depressed how come you’re eating pizza?”
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Tear Me Apart Draws a Line Between Blood and Biology
Two brothers find conflict when the last woman on Earth walks into their cave. “There used to be things called women,” says a nameless young man…
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Stephen King’s Cell Review
Cell Drops the Call The latest Stephen King adaptation is thankfully not the last. Stephen King adaptations are enjoying something of a resurgence these days evident in…
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Finding Dory Seizes Something New, But Less Urgent, Inside an Old Formula
The adorable blue tang with short-term memory loss is back, this time as a heroine.
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Warcraft Review
Warcraft Exists in the Netherworld Between Good and Bad And it rarely reaches either. Movies based on video games have earned something of a bad rap over…