Out in Theaters: TED 2
In order to drill home the point, know that Ted 2 is in fact a cinematic urinal cake; a patchwork of unfunny, hateful jokes bred with a razor thin attempt…
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Out in Theaters: CREEP
From his backlit framing to the long, empty, awkward silences that fill the air like smog, Brice plants all the seeds of doubt required to make his audience want to…
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Documentary Dossier: FRESH DRESSED
A commerce-drenched narrative of the rise and fall of “for us by us” brands (FUBU, Mecca, Ecko) in the second half strips the film of some of its momentum, as…
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Out in Theaters: A LITTLE CHAOS
I wish I had better things to say about A Little Chaos. It finds a strong female protagonist in De Barra, who Winslett plays with assuredness and power. But the…
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Out in Theaters: MAX
And for all its shortcomings, the rehabilitated dog story at the heart of the piece is ultimately winning. (Max’s actual offscreen handlers deserve major points for running him through a…
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Out in Theaters: REVERSAL
It’s not that Tina Ivlev is terrible so much as her scenes seem rushed and “first take”. Richard Tyson gets out a hair better, but similarly fails to overcome the…
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Out in Theaters: THE STRONGEST MAN
An emotionally resonant win for faux-cinéma vérité (with a surprise cameo from nerd prince Freddie Wong), The Strongest Man becomes occasionally untacked by amateur bits of visual collage work, the…
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Out in Theaters: ADVANTAGEOUS
The appearance of Ken Jeong on the cast list comes as a major red flag though he ends up the least to blame for the frequent failures of Advantageous. The…
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TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2 Episode 1 Review “The Western Book of the Dead”
True Detective season two has the same visage and DNA of the first, but it needs to speak up for us to hear. The intro’s graphical sleepy and haunting imagery and auditory sensations are there, only Californiacated. So is the symbolism, with the overhead shots of vapid intersecting freeways that look like rigid arteries interconnecting...
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Out in Theaters: THE OVERNIGHT
The final result is both articulate and insightful, an uncommonly honest look at adult sexuality and the bargaining chips that married couples exchange. It's also f*cking hilarious. Working from a…