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“Sicario” Needs More Substance And More Emily Blunt
If Doug Liman’s thoroughly entertaining sci-fi flick Edge of Tomorrow demonstrated and reinforced anything besides the inexhaustible movie stardom of Tom Cruise, it was that Emily Blunt was an action heroine of her own accord, more than capable of holding her ...
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“Sleeping With Other People” Is Thoroughly Enjoyable
Sleeping with Other People, writer-director Lesyle Headland's follow-up to Bachelorette (2012), saws off the more robustly salty bits of her first film in favor of a safe-in-the-arms-of-formula romantic comedy starring Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis as Lainey ...
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“90 Minutes In Heaven” Is 121 Minutes Of Boredom
For starters, the film is 121 minutes long so I feel a bit snookered by false advertising.
Smarmy, I know. But what else is there really to say about 90 Minutes in Heaven? Based on the book by Don Piper, which I'm told has sold over 6 million copies, it is a ...
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“Goodnight Mommy” Fails To Come Together As A Horror Film
Even though its story isn’t what the virally-spooky trailers are selling it as, this still seems like the kind of movie I should love. An austerely produced, beautifully shot dark fable about children’s resentment of their parents, it’s sound on paper. But in ...
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“The Visit” Is M. Night Shyamalan’s Best Film Since “Signs”
In the late summer of 1999, two low-budget movies intended to scare audiences helped change one aspect of the mainstream-cinema landscape: the bare-bones found-footage horror film The Blair Witch Project and the spooky psychological thriller The Sixth Sense, w...
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“Breathe” Is The New Classic Of Teen-Centric Cinema
Toxic friendships between teenage girls have given us some memorable cinema, from the sarcastic (Ghost World) to the cruel (The Craft) to the outright deadly (Heathers). If you believe Jennifer’s Body, hell is a teenage girl and two of them at war is enough to...
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“Coming Home” Is Bland And Ultimately Forgettable
If you were told that Coming Home was about a mother suffering from amnesia and the father and daughter who are forced to come to terms with the effects of her illness on them, you might assume that this was Hollywood’s latest attempt at an Oscar-bait prestige...
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“Before We Go” Is A Charming Film With A Big Heart
A few months ago, while Ultron’s short-lived Age was dominating the box office, Chris Evans also appeared in a little-seen romantic comedy called Playing It Cool. Scripted by Chris Shafer and Paul Vickair, the smart-alecky exercise spent so much time trying to...
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“Dragon Blade” Is A Baffling Paradox
The collected forces of the Chinese entertainment economy entrusted Daniel Lee, director of the majestically incompetent historical epic Dragon Blade, with a $65 million budget for his newest feature. To provide some financial context, The Sparkle Roll Media C...
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“Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine” Is Unsettling, But Only At Times
Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine captures the titular Silicon Valley titan as a genius with questionable morals at best. During Jobs’ lifetime, his virtuosic output was front and center and the public overlooked, say, the fact that Apple put a ...
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