Mad Max: Fury Road takes the lead with nominations, #OscarsSoWhite trends again, and more from this year’s crop.
Matt Brunson
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Review: Dirty Grandpa
97 minutes of watching Robert De Niro once again mug shamelessly, Zac Efron once again display all the comic instincts of a dead hornet, and filmmakers once again assume that profanity and scatology are worthy replacements for wit and timing.
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Review: Ride Along 2
Ice Cube and Kevin Hart again work well together, although this time there are limitations – while I’ve been praising Hart in one mediocre movie after another, this is the first time that his shtick finally starts to wear thin.
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Review: The Revenant
The picture is a bruising beauty in terms of its visuals, but Iñárritu’s artfulness too often feels at odds with the threadbare story,
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Review: The Hateful Eight
The film moves on the screen like a cheetah on fire, feeling far shorter than many of the 100-or-so-minute duds I’ve endured this year.
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Review: The Big Short
The script’s great swatches of humor, and superlative performances by the entire cast (including Steve Carell and Christian Bale as two of the outsiders who saw the crisis coming and sought to profit from the banking industry’s greed and stupidity), the film lays out the case in layman’s terms.
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Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The original stars haven’t lost a beat with their characterizations, while the newcomers prove to be an irresistible lot. The casting of a woman and a black man in the central roles doesn’t feel like forced political correctness but a natural progression, and the characters are two of the richest yet seen in the Star Wars universe.
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Review: Sisters
As with everything they do together, Fey and Poehler are such the BFFs – and respond to each other accordingly – it’s impossible to accept them as related by blood.
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Review: In the Heart of the Sea
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA *1/2 DIRECTED BY Ron Howard STARS Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker As much an introspective character study as an exciting racing flick, 2013’s Rush examined […]
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Review: Chi-raq
CHI-RAQ ***1/2 DIRECTED BY Spike Lee STARS Teyonah Parris, Nick Cannon “No peace, no pussy.” “No pussy, no power.” Those are the defining lines of the hour, In Spike Lee’s […]
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Review: Trumbo
Trumbo is alternately poignant, amusing, infuriating and always thought-provoking.
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Review: The Good Dinosaur
Pixar pictures have always been for adults as much as for children, yet this one marks the first time that grown-ups have been left out of the mix, with the studio fashioning a film designed to play only to the small fry.