Out in Theaters: ‘SUMMER OF 84’
Rudderless “dark” teen mystery ‘Summer of 84’ lacks originality, scares, mystery, and good acting, hoping its hackneyed throwback nature will override its basic lack of storytelling skill. It doesn't.
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Out in Theaters: ‘MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT’
‘Mission Impossible: Fallout’ is action movie heroin. Impossibly entertaining, grittier and more artful than its forebearers while still maintaining its smarmy roguish charms, 'Fallout' is the result of mind-blowing technical…
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Talking with Bo Burnham and Elsie Fisher of ‘EIGHTH GRADE’
Festival darling Eighth Grade is another critical, and now low-flying commercial, score for studio A24 as well as a massive coming out party for writer-director Bo Burnham and star Elsie Fischer. Telling the story of Kayla, a perfectly average 13-year old girl with an unvisited YouTube channel and a quiet streak at school, as she...
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Out in Theaters: ‘UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB’
‘Unfriended: Dark Web’ is a marked improvement over its earlier model, smuggling some decent performances and an excess of bleak foreboding into this conceptual horror-thriller. Though it still lacks visceral…
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Out in Theaters: ‘DAMSEL’
The Zellner’s daffy ‘Damsel’ presents a subversion of normal Western fare, trafficking two quirky, wildly enjoyable performances from Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikoska to make for some absurdist onscreen dynamite.
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Out in Theaters: ‘SKYSCRAPER’
Big, dumb, get-the-job-done fun, ‘Skyscraper’ is both a testament to The Rock’s nigh-bottomless watchability and a litmus test for the depths of storytelling bankruptcy he’s willing to participate in. Both…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE FIRST PURGE’
Sassy, brutal and imbued with some relevant political bite, ‘The First Purge’ has a number of problems - it's also over-the-top, cheap-looking and tonally inconsistent - but a strong story,…
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Out in Theaters: ’ANT-MAN AND THE WASP’
'Ant-Man and the Wasp' is the closest Marvel has ever gotten to cute and cuddly, delivering a family movie filled with warmth and hope - and some nifty little uses…
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Out in Theaters: ‘JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM’
The thrill of dinosaurs invading our cineplexes has gone extinct with the mind-numbing ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’, a braindead, lifeless, excitement-bereft, apocalypse of a movie. Cannon fodder characters, prehistoric dialogue…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE INCREDIBLES 2’
‘Incredibles 2’ offers so much to love - a charming voice cast, dazzling and inventive set pieces, a keen sense of wit, and charitable cultural commentary - that it’s relative…