‘BALLERINA’ Floats like a Butterfly, Stings like a Flamethrower
Ana de Armas is a welcome new face (successor?) in the John Wick universe as a freshly minted female assassin on her own vengeance trail. The highs and lows should…
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‘JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4’ and Why You Don’t Get Sick of the Wick
'John Wick: Chapter 4' is almost three hours of next-level gunfu insanity. Director Chad Stahelski has raised the bar on the action once more while continuing to deliver the insanely…
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Thematic ‘Toy Story 4’ Puts Big Radical Ideas Over Big Radical Plot
‘Toy Story 4’ succeeds as a fleet-footed and charming animated spectacle but its underlying deconstruction (and denouncement) of the moral imperatives of blind love and loyalty that have always driven…
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’JOHN WICK 3 – PARABELLUM’ Is Like Dipping Your Eyes in Pop Rocks
Zany close-range action choreography, blistering technical marksmanship, a plethora of gorgeous backdrops, and Keanu Reeves’ amusingly cartoonish and glib performance make ‘John Wick 3 - Parabellum’ exactly the kind of…
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Out in Theaters: ‘JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2’
'John Wick: Chapter 2' is everything fans of the first film wanted and little else. There's more blood, more headshots, more campy Keanu Reeves stalking and killing his prey but…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE NEON DEMON’
Like the hackneyed runway model, 'The Neon Demon' is all external flash, little internal substance. For the most part. Aggravatingly vacuous but undeniably seductive, Nicholas Winding Refn’s hostile takedown of…
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Out in Theaters: JOHN WICK
John Wick eventually admits that it is in fact just the straight-forward actioner you've hoped it would transcend - with an ending you could forecast from 30 minutes in -…
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Out in Theaters: MAN OF TAI CHI
For American audiences unfamiliar with the chest of international martial arts film, outside of the late success of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, Man of Tai Chi hopes to be…