Out in Theaters: GODZILLA
Though the performances are often showed up by the 150-foot beast stomping through the midst of Evans' film, it is still a certifiable triumph, an idol of what studio films…
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Out in Theaters: NEIGHBORS
I’ve got enough fraternity experiences to write two books. None of them resemble what I saw Tuesday night. Hell, my fraternity chapter was shut down in ’04 for being the…
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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: CHEF
Hoffman's suit of a boss likens Casper to a Rolling Stones show; "Imagine if you paid for a ticket and they didn't play Satisfation?" Well, Favreau's film slyly retorts, had…
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Out in Theaters: THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2
Even set to the background noise of Webb and Garfield pondering leaving the series sooner rather than later, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 does move the puck forward a significant amount,…
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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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Restored and Revisited: Godzilla (1954) Celebrates 60 Years
As a metaphor for WWII-era America, the beastly, thoughtless rampager seems less a condemnation of Japan's former enemies than an admission of invitation. Honda's is a film that doesn't place…
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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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Documentary Dossier: JODOROWSKY’S DUNE
Jodorowsky raped my mind. And I loved it. Yeah. Or maybe that’s just the Stockholm Syndrome talking.
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Out in Theaters: JOE
Shouldering the picture, Poulter, Blevins, Cage and Sheridan are the savior of Green's view of a broke down suburban hell hole. If only they weren't always forced into such sketchy…