There’s Somehow Even More Family And Furious Stupidity in Ridiculous ‘F9’
Justin Lin returns to the Fast & Furious franchise to re-test the barriers of what cars and Torettos are capable of in the most bonkers entry to the car-action series…
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Muddled Mythology and Tepid Romance Combine to Make ‘UNDINE’ Low-Wattage Erotica
This economical German fantasy-romance pales in the shadow of more successful genre combinations, relying on muggy romance and hazy mythology to charge an otherwise straight and narrow tale of love…
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Franchise Fatigue Possesses ‘THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT’
'The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It' is an underwhelming sequel that pales in comparison to its impressively haunting predecessors. It has its moments and tries out some new…
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Australian Whodunit ‘THE DRY’ Will Quench Thirst for Straight-Forward Mystery
A detective reckons with his past to sort out a murder-suicide involving his childhood best friend in this salty, straight-faced Australian thriller. Eric Bana is solid if unremarkable.
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Decent ‘VOYAGERS’ Is Teenaged Outer Space ‘Lord of the Flies’
A teenaged crew of astronauts grows up on a mission to a new Earth in 'Voyagers' but the journey can be a rocky one. There's philosophical intrigue about the ethics…
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Geriatric Horror ’HONEYDEW’ Serves Hospitality With a Heaping Side of Hostility
Old farm people are supposedly scary as sin in Devereux Milburn’s hostage-horror film 'Honeydew', a debut handicapped by lacking performances and an unjustifiably elongated runtime that fails to offer much…
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Sprawling Opioid Drama ‘CHERRY’ a Sometimes Entertaining Jumbled Mess
At two and a half hours, ‘Cherry’ attempts to tackle war values, PTSD, drug addiction, teen romance, and crime but the decently-entertaining character study settles to skim the surface of…
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Earning Its Lumps, ‘FATMAN’ Is Neither Naughty Nor Nice Enough
‘Fatman’ swings and misses attempting to spark cynical holiday joy. Just never going quite far enough, Mel Gibson’ Santa might drink and curse and shoot guns but the movie itself…
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The Cinematic Equivalent of the Phrase “Spooky Season”, ‘COME PLAY’ A Scare-Free Dud
A Halloween scare-fest this is not, but it’s also not totally rotten. 'Come Play' features a solid-enough turn from Gillian Jacobs as a mom struggling to connect with her son on…
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X-Men Franchise Dies A Final Death With Disposable Super-Teen Flick ‘THE NEW MUTANTS’
'The New Mutants' is a classic case of wasted potential, Josh Boone's vision of a darker horror-genre superhero movie not fulfilled so much as it is merely suggested. The cast…