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Probably hates your favorite movie. Since 2012.

FILM REVIEWS

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

REVIEW
Out in Theaters: ‘BELOW HER MOUTH’

Out in Theaters: ‘BELOW HER MOUTH’

‘Below Her Mouth’ is an epically poor lesbian romance complete with shamefully terrible acting, an embarrassing script and way more than one gratuitous sex scene. Yes, there's a lot of…

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Out in Theaters: ‘LIFE’

Out in Theaters: ‘LIFE’

Recipe for Daniel Espinosa’s ‘Life’: Steal Alien. Glaze with modern CGI. Lift all signs of horror and tension. Add big marque names. Give them nothing to do. Dose with a heavy-hand…

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Out in Theaters: ‘THE GREAT WALL’

Out in Theaters: ‘THE GREAT WALL’

Like a tower defense game brought to the big screen, the grating 'Great Wall' is a patience-testing embarrassment for all involved. With razor-thin characters, shamelessly cliched plotting and some dreadful…

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Out in Theaters: ‘THE SPACE BETWEEN US’

Out in Theaters: ‘THE SPACE BETWEEN US’

Let's save the hemming and hawing, The Space Between Us is terrible. No need to add much else to the sentiment, it is a bad film that you will have…

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Out in Theaters: ‘WHY HIM?’

Out in Theaters: ‘WHY HIM?’

Frequently unfunny, offensively unoriginal and downright grating, this teaming of great character actor Bryan Cranston and can-do-it-all performer James Franco breaks a different kind of bad, scrubbing free the charm…

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Out in Theaters: ‘SNOWDEN’

Out in Theaters: ‘SNOWDEN’

Stodgy and listless, 'Snowden' represents a top-to-bottom failure to give meaningful material narrative purpose. Loaded with weakly motivated characters and a very cursory understanding of political tectonics,  Oliver Stone's latest…

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Out in Theaters: ’31’

Out in Theaters: ’31’

Rob Zombie’s ’31’ is a demented game of hide and seek, full of unbridled misogyny, unintelligible motives and senseless violence. Fans of his will revel in the blood rain but…

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Out in Theaters: ‘THE LEGEND OF TARZAN’

Out in Theaters: ‘THE LEGEND OF TARZAN’

From the laughable script to the horrible performances, bad computer-generated imagery to asinine action beats, 'The Legend of Tarzan' is a gravely unpleasant big-budget sedative. Without anything of narrative, visual…

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Out in Theaters: ‘WARCRAFT’

Out in Theaters: ‘WARCRAFT’

Paying lip service to fans foaming at the mouth and flipping the general public the bird, 'Warcraft' is a profoundly dumbfounding clusterf*ck of fantasy derivation and nerd-centered jabber-mouthing. Wowing in…