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…
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Out in Theaters: LILA & EVE
Lila & Eve is an attempted female vigilante film with strong leading actresses, but has identity issues. It falls short of being a thriller or serious drama.
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Out in Theaters: ANT-MAN
Ant-Man is pest controlled, a refreshing take on the increasingly stale superhero concept. Though Rudd might not be the coolest Ant-venger yet, he packs a concentrated punch in a smaller…
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Documentary Dossier: CARTEL LAND
The anonymous cartel members who open and close the film say they don’t expect to ever be out of a job. They don’t believe anything can put an end to…
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Documentary Dossier: THE LOOK OF SILENCE
As the agents of genocide repeat "The past is past", the delicacy of Indonesia's current political balance becomes a focal point of fiercely high intensity. At one point, a politician…
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Out in Theaters: MR. HOLMES
Condon hit a triumphant low point two years past with The Fifth Estate - a film I named the fifth worst movie of 2013 - but with Mr. Holmes has…
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TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2 Episode 4 Review “Down Will Come”
Down Will Come is already here. DaVinci’s desecrated water table has waned Frank Semyon’s (Vince Vaughn) land as it tries for purity out of its poisoned seeds. We further wind down the dark spine into DaVinci’s ethos as the show’s symbology continues to open up like the liquid fingers of a black ink stain. Velcoro (Colin...