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Probably hates your favorite movie. Since 2012.

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In-depth film reviews, rated A through F, from someone who definitely thinks he knows more about movies than you.

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Out in Theaters: TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION

Out in Theaters: TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION

At the end of the night, you wonder how you ever expected anything more. History repeats itself and so does Transformers, ad nauseam. One has to wonder if Flip’s “S…

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Out in Theaters: BLENDED

Out in Theaters: BLENDED

I’ve been racking my brain trying to find out why Blended was even made, and who it was made for. Really, who is the demographic here? It boggles the mind.…

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Out in Theaters: PALO ALTO

Out in Theaters: PALO ALTO

What transpires is a whole bunch of nothing that adds up to little more than: "Rich white people gots it ruff." Like the offspring of someone tragically out of touch…

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Out in Theaters: DECODING ANNIE PARKER

Out in Theaters: DECODING ANNIE PARKER

Bernstein works the movie like a circus clown, loading suckerpunch after suckerpunch into his cinematic cannon, but they strike with dull thuds. His pleads for heartbreak hardly break a sweat;…

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Out in Theaters: BRICK MANSIONS

Out in Theaters: BRICK MANSIONS

It's a ton of fun, if your idea of fun is wasting an hour and thirty minutes of your life. Brick tries out a few jokes here and there -…

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Out in Theaters: DIVERGENT

Out in Theaters: DIVERGENT

Screams snap you out of it. You’re sitting next to a pre-pubescent girl’s volleyball team from the local middle school—they shriek every time Miles Teller is on-screen. Now it's clear…

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Out in Theaters: 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE

Out in Theaters: 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE

We've come a long way since the visual effects of 300 were groundbreaking and eight years later, Rise looks like the same crew using the same computers and same effects.…

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Out in Theathers: SON OF GOD

Out in Theathers: SON OF GOD

We've all got a "Love Power:" our own figure in the light, our symbol for hope and security that we keep deep inside. Connecting with that figure in the light…

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Out in Theaters: LABOR DAY

Out in Theaters: LABOR DAY

Strangely enough, in the throes of this hackneyed love drama Reitman tries to ratchet up some invisible tension with a syncopated score reminiscent of a 90's spy thriller complete with…

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Out in Theaters: THAT AWKWARD MOMENT

Out in Theaters: THAT AWKWARD MOMENT

Hateful and misogynist dreck that The Awkward Moment is all just boils down to a less clever modern retelling of Josh Harnett's 40 Days and 40 Nights, tone deaf to…