Category: CPE
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Deadpool 2 (****1/2): He who laughs first, didn’t get the joke
#deadpool2 so many reasons to avoid this movie contained herein.
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Breaking In (**1/2) is maturing in front of the camera…and behind it
#breakingin is the kind of film you watch to see how cool the house is, and how cool Union can stay even if the script is bad.
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Blockers (**1/2) tries to be everything
#blockers “This is not a bad film. It’s definitely not a great one. In total, I laughed maybe twice. But I smiled a few more times. If you see it, don’t look at it as any sort of guide to life, because no one should use comedy films as a guide to life. Except for…
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Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare: It Follows rules, blandly (***)
“Truth or Dare is an example of what having a good producer can do for an average film. ”
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Rampage (***1/2) shouldn’t be this good
#rampage “Can you do without this film? Surely. In the age of Moviepass, why should you? It’s really a fun waste of time with effects that make it worth your time, up until they start blowing stuff up and tearing it down. If you’re not worn out by the senseless and consequence-less destruction of major…
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The Miracle Season (****) Live Like Line
#livelikeline “Sure, the acting is a little goofy. It stops on the border of maudlin. It’s as accurate a recreation as I’ve seen. Most important, never loses touch with the true feeling a small city can feel about something seemingly as inane as a sports game. It’s more than that, though. It’s about a kid…
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A Quiet Place (****) is intense, pure
#aquietplace “Of course the film is silent. It’s probably the only time I have been made aware of the silence in the theater to the extent I didn’t even want to adjust my position in the chair for fear I would break the spell. The few times we hear noise in the film, we have…
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A Wrinkle in Time (***) is best when it avoids fawning
#wrinkleintime “This is not an indictment of the talent of Ava as a director. It’s not that she faded this time round. There was probably enough pressure on her shoulders covering this well liked children’s book. To make her have to maneuver around the albatross is obviously a bridge too far, even if she’ll never…
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Ready Player One (****) Spielberg remembers how to have fun
“If you have any desire to legitimately smile at a Spielberg film for the first time in decades, see Ready Player One.”
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Pacific Rim Uprising (1/2*) is awful in so many ways
The end is an insult to those already insulted by every minute preceding.
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