Out in Theaters: VACATION
Dumb, meandering and in need of a more well realized arc, Vacation is nonetheless quite funny.
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Out In Theaters: LUCKY STIFF
Lucky Stiff is a zany musical comedy that is a little bit Bond; a smidgen of Sondheim; and a dash Weekend At Bernie’s - making for an unlikely and unstable…
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Out in Theaters: BIG SIGNIFICANT THINGS
Though it features some lovely camera work and quirky, nostalgic touches as well as fine performances all around, Big Significant Things fails to engage - a major problem for such an…
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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: UNEXPECTED
Unexpected is like a wind chime you've hung in your backyard. Sometimes it's jingling and jangling nicely in the wind and you feel good about having bought it. Other times, you…
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Out in Theaters: SOUTHPAW
Though lacking on original dramatic upper cuts, Southpaw offers a bevy of excellent performances from its more than game cast. But with a share of technical errors behind the camera,…
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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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TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2 Episode 5 “Other Lives”
As the first season dictates, crime predestines characters into its fold; their adopted second selves aren’t themselves, and the inevitability of the crime’s determinism has approached. In season one, after they ostensibly solved the crime, we saw Rust and Marty’s interlude draw out seemingly grounded as repaired people then pulled back into the crime’s undertow...
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Out in Theaters: TRAINWRECK
Considered a "work in progress", at two hours, Trainwreck is already more trim than most Apatow films - his last two films clocked in at 134 and 153 minutes -…
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Out in Theaters: THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT
All the authenticity The Stanford Prison Experiment brings to the table establishes an alarming, visceral sense of reality but is also accountable for a skosh of its failures. Because of…