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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: JUPITER ASCENDING

Out in Theaters: JUPITER ASCENDING

What is truly visionary in terms of set production, lavish costumery and creature design results in something totally and tonally defunct in the story department. As Eddie Redmayne greedily dismantles…

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Out in Theaters: THE BOY NEXT DOOR

Out in Theaters: THE BOY NEXT DOOR

Step Up's Guzman is awful in the leading man's shoes, all kinds of ham and cheese in a role that might have even thrived in the hands of a Dan…

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Out in Theaters: ANNIE

Out in Theaters: ANNIE

There's more plot holes as big as the sun (Spoiler: why would Annie's orphan friends help audition fake parents for her? Seriously, why?! Are they just the worst friends ever?…

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Out in Theaters: EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS

Out in Theaters: EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS

To watch Exodus is to endure exodus. At 150 mins, it's easily one of the most taxing films of the year and surely one of its least inspired blockbusters. Darren…

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Out in Theaters: OUIJA

Out in Theaters: OUIJA

When all is said and done, Ouija will make over five times its budget on opening weekend and it will see a sequel. That fact alone is the true horror.…

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Out in Theaters: ANNABELLE

Out in Theaters: ANNABELLE

The added disappointment of serializing a film whose horrors were without bound, Annabelle sullies the good name of the Warren's demonology franchise. Peddling in doll stares and wanna-be ominous monotony,…

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Out in Theaters: IF I STAY

Out in Theaters: IF I STAY

If I Stay is the useless kind of movie for people who have nothing else to be bummed about. It invites you to wonder if people do sit around and…

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Out in Theaters: INTO THE STORM

Out in Theaters: INTO THE STORM

Whilst the inadvertent humor disqualifies Into the Storm from the most painful movie experience of the year accolade, that's still not something you want to pull for the box art…

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Out in Theaters: A MOST WANTED MAN

Out in Theaters: A MOST WANTED MAN

NOTE: I've tried to write something about this movie but I just can't do it. It's too dull to summon the energy to write more than one lousy sentence about.…

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Out in Theaters: THE PURGE: ANARCHY

Out in Theaters: THE PURGE: ANARCHY

Since the events of the first film have virtually no bearing on anything that comes to fruition in this second installment, don't let unfamiliarity steer you away from it. Instead,…