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Movie Reviews by Todd Wofford— Funny, informative movie reviews

Mar 2019

Holmes & Watson (2018)::rating::0::rating::0::rating::0

H olmes & Watson isn't so much a movie as a monsoon of limp, slimy jokes that plop to the ground like that storm of toads in Magnolia. The actors fidget…

Mar 2019

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Us (2019)::rating::4

U s is one of those movies that will provoke polarized responses from audiences and lots of flowery adjectives from a needlessly verbose individual like me. At once, this movie is…

Mar 2019

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A Madea Family Funeral (2019)::rating::1.5

A Madea Family Funeral filled me with a sense of grief. Not because it takes 100 minutes of my life and sends it clunking and sputtering down a garbage disposal, although…

Feb 2019

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Table Manners (2018)::rating::3.5

I grew up on a ranch, and I can still remember the fires that would sweep through almost every spring. The bluestem grass, the walnut trees, and the oaken…

Jan 2019

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Stan & Ollie (2018)::rating::4

S omewhere, embedded within the raucous, irresistible comedy of the Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers, and Laurel and Hardy, lies a parable about the bond of brotherhood. Through the daredevil…

Jan 2019

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The Upside (2018)::rating::2.5

As a young dweeb, I found great joy in flipping to the "How to Increase Your Word Power" Section of a Reader's Digest. It's truly an invaluable tool for infusing your…

Dec 2018

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Green Book (2018)::rating::4

T he story goes that in 1963, Sam Cooke and his band were turned away from a hotel in Shreveport, La. Cooke, arguably the most important soul singer of the…

Nov 2018

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Instant Family (2018)::rating::3

T he life of a parent has been described as "all joy and no fun." The act of having children trades the instant gratification of autonomous adulthood--the soft thrill of…

Oct 2018

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Mid90s (2018)::rating::3.5

C hildren of the mid-90s lived on the edge of a vanishing frontier, when the Internet was still a novelty and before social media gave us the blessing and curse…

Oct 2018

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Smallfoot (2018)::rating::3

T o borrow a baseball metaphor, most modern animated movies aim to send the ball to one of two spots in the stadium. Pixar goes Babe Ruth and points its…

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