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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.

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Out in Theaters: ‘THE LAST WITCH HUNTER’

Out in Theaters: ‘THE LAST WITCH HUNTER’

As bad as you might expect, 'The Last Witch Hunter' proudly displays Vin Diesel's inability to act in an overlong CG-heavy shower of visual senselessness and narrative apathy.

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Out in Theaters: ‘PAN’

Out in Theaters: ‘PAN’

'Pan' manages to hit more highs and lows than most films (family-friendly or otherwise) but is ultimately ravaged by its narrative senselessness and visual apathy. Though Hugh Jackman has fun…

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Out in Theaters: ‘COOTIES’

Out in Theaters: ‘COOTIES’

With no sense of purpose, reliance on thin scatological  humor and an abundant lack of screenwriting prowess, 'Cooties' turns a great cast of underdogs into lame, annoying cardboard cutouts. It…

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Out in Theaters: ‘BLOODSUCKING BASTARDS’

Out in Theaters: ‘BLOODSUCKING BASTARDS’

If you’re looking for a vaguely enjoyable, thoroughly blood-drenched re-hash of Shaun of the Dead, Bloodsucking Bastards will fit the bill - but is anyone really searching for that?

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Out in Theaters: THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED

Out in Theaters: THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED

The Transporter has two rules: don't ask questions and always be on time. Discerning audience members are best following that first rule but would be better off showing up late…

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Out in Theaters: DARK PLACES

Out in Theaters: DARK PLACES

A hodgepodge of movie-like parts that fail to ever click, Dark Places is a monumental ball-drop on the part of writer/director Gilles Paquet-Brenner.

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Out in Theaters: PAPER TOWNS

Out in Theaters: PAPER TOWNS

There’s a germ of an idea in Paper Towns' romanticized adolescence but that germ quickly grows into a virus. By the time the third act has rolled along, that virus…

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Out in Theaters: PIXELS

Out in Theaters: PIXELS

There’s more effort here than in most Adam Sandler movies but Pixels’ half-baked 80s video-game-cum-invasion-movie still mostly reeks of jack-assery.

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Out in Theaters: THE GALLOWS

Out in Theaters: THE GALLOWS

The result? The Gallows is a dumb, bad movie, filled with dumb, bad characters deserving of every bit of punishment that comes their way. However, I can’t flunk the movie…

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Out in Theaters: TERMINATOR: GENISYS

Out in Theaters: TERMINATOR: GENISYS

Further, the entire plot of Terminator: Thanks Jai Courtney is predicated on a twist to the original films' timeline and yet, incredibly, such an important piece of information is never…