Reviews
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‘The Trip to Italy’ Review: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon Go Back for Seriously Entertaining Seconds
“We aren’t going to do any impersonations, are we? Because we talked about that.” Prolific filmmaker Michael Winterbottom returns to the wonderful and witty world of…
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‘Frank’ Review: More Than Just Michael Fassbender Wearing a Giant Fake Head
Frank is full blown indie quirk. That heightened sensibility is often insufferable to sit through, but what makes potentially grating quirks work is what director…
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‘The Expendables 3’ Review: Wow
Lionsgate A routine assignment to capture a rogue arms dealer leaves Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) and his team of immortal but highly moral mercenaries beaten…
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‘Let’s Be Cops’ Review: A Slap to the Face (and Forehead)
by Sam Fragoso 20th Century Fox Between the Ferguson, Missouri, police shootings, Lauren Bacall’s death and Robin Williams’s suicide, this has been a particularly painful week to…
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‘Cabin Fever — Patient Zero’ Review: Never Go Down on a Girl with a Flesh-Eating Virus, and Other…
‘Cabin Fever – Patient Zero’ Review: Never Go Down on a Girl with a Flesh-Eating Virus, and Other Helpful Tips Image Entertainment A small outbreak of…
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‘The Giver’ Review: Color and Character Bloom in a Black-and-White World
The Weinstein Company Since Lois Lowry’s The Giver was published 21 years ago there’s been an abundance of YA novels that have explored similar territory,…
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‘Step Up All In’ Review: Yes, It Always Has to End Up In a Big, Giant Dance Battle
Summit Entertainment “Your flash mob ain’t nothin’ but a joke!” And thus the gauntlet is thrown down in Step Up All In, the fifth (fifth!)…
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‘Into the Storm’ Review: Life Is Good, This Is Bad
by Sam Fragoso Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc Into the Storm is uneventfully being dumped into theaters this weekend with a logline I won’t dare try to…
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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Review: Finally, a Movie for Your Dumb Little Brother
Paramount Pictures New York City is under attack by a heavily armed gang of thieves called the Foot Clan, and while they’ve been happy committing…