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Jun 2022

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)::rating::4::rating::4::rating::4

A movie like The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent runs the considerable risk of sinking under the unbearable weight of its own pretensions. After all, the film's very premise…

Jun 2022

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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)::rating::3.5

T he first two Fantastic Beasts films captured some of the leftover charm from the Harry Potter series, but none of the dramatic heft. Simply put, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) isn't as compelling…

May 2022

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The Lost City (2022)::rating::3

T he trailers for The Lost City filled me with dread. I feared an expensive, gauche knock-off of Romancing the Stone, Indiana Jones, and a half-dozen other, better movies. And don't get it twisted--this…

May 2022

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Uncharted (2022)::rating::2

It’s all in the execution. Uncharted gives us clunky, expository dialogue and special effects so real they look fake.

May 2022

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)::rating::3.5

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will draw inevitable comparisons to Everything Everywhere All at Once, Michelle Yeoh's bravura indie feature from last month. Like that film, this story imagines…

May 2022

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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)::rating::4

N o film in recent memory gets a more appropriate title than Everything Everywhere All at Once. Over the course of its dizzying, dazzling 140 minutes, multiple movie genres smash into each other,…

Apr 2022

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Morbius (2022)::rating::1

M orbius achieves a rare double feat: Over the course of its punishing 104 minutes, Daniel Espinosa's middling, piddling vampire epic manages to be glum, but without any dramatic heft. At…

Mar 2022

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The Adam Project (2022)::rating::3

M odern filmmakers borrow so much from Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Robert Zemeckis, I'm beginning to wonder if they've worked out some kinda payment plan for the royalties. Either…

Mar 2022

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Deep Water (2022)::rating::2

T wo completely different movies live within the soul of Deep Water, and both of them are bad: On the one level, director Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal) delivers a humid,…

Mar 2022

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Turning Red (2022)::rating::4

T urning Red immediately took my mind to Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, the classic young adult novel by Judy Blume. That book was a frank, poignant tale of…

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