Category: 3 Stars
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Don’t Let Go (***) rides on pure talent
“Overall, it’s a decent enough movie for a one time through, made better with the most screen time I have seen anyone give to Williamson in years.”
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Ready or Not (***) Here she comes
“Weaving shows a believable range from comic, to frantic and then to vengeful. ”
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Maggie (***) Slowest Zombie Apocalypse Ever
The overall feeling of the film works for one viewing, but it sure draws out its 95 minutes.
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Small Town Crime (***) is the Long Goodbye for Hawkes
Simple as the story is, it begins to fall in place when Hawkes is allowed to move inside the character.
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The Wandering Earth (***) is not far from Armageddon
“The producers consulted the Chinese Academy of Sciences, though what questions they asked is not immediately clear. I’d like to think I know at least as much as the average college graduate about the physical sciences, but they lost me when the Earth stopped rotating. ”
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Crawl (***) is what you’d hope to fear
The film is likable in spite of the fact the gators show up where ever they need to be, like a submersible Michael Myers.
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Annabelle Comes Home (***) – Time to close the case
Annabelle Comes Home is a fun film. It’s not an essential one.
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (***) – Too much breaking stuff
“This is not a great film. It’s barely a good one. The feeling that this is just a placeholder for the real battle coming overwhelms the last half of the film. Once we see images of Kong in passing, it’s hard to guess who is going to come out on top in a film with…
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Another Look: Full Metal Jacket (***)
“In total, this film means the same thing to me that it did back in 1987. It’s schizophrenic and frustrating. In the effort to make mirror images of life before and after being honed into the “full metal jacket” they forgot to make the story a believable one. It might have been more effective if…
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Another Look: The Highwaymen vs. Bonnie and Clyde
“The Warren Beatty film has received a gentle critical wind in the ensuing years, remembered more for its groundbreaking violence than for any of the many nominated performances. In retrospect, its not a bad film, but it’s not a classic, either. The main thing it lacks is a cohesive story that’s not real accurate with…
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