I suppose it’s possible to be shaken to the core by this movie – even if it’s ultimately not much more frightening than, say, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island – but ultimately, it’s just one more haunted-house yarn.
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Review: The Wolverine
Like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, this latest effort is a middling superhero saga that attempts to deepen our understanding of the character but instead ends up mainly treading narrative water.
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Review: Pacific Rim
The film’s special effects are superb, yet their frequent and coolly detached employment means that this is basically a CGI circle jerk.
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Review: The Lone Ranger
The movie could lose the insufferable framing device that features Depp getting to wear even more makeup, as he plays Tonto as an elderly man relating the bulk of the movie as a flashback.
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Review: Despicable Me 2
**1/2 Before we get completely blinded by the dazzle of its $543 million worldwide gross, let’s recall that 2010’s Despicable Me focused on a super-villain, a man whose nefarious schemes […]
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Review: The Heat
Had the screenplay been a bit punchier, this could have been a noteworthy bookend piece to director Paul Feig’s uproarious and gender-smashing Bridesmaids.
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Review: Monsters University
*** The Roman Empire fell. So did the Berlin Wall. It was only natural, then, that Pixar Animation Studios would eventually tumble as well. Clearly, the Golden Age of Pixar […]
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Review: World War Z
Imagine Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion recast with zombies instead of Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Review: Man of Steel
There’s a strong possibility that Man of Steel might be the most boring superhero saga ever filmed.
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Review: Before Midnight
It’s a beautifully sustained piece of cinema, raw and authentic and emotional.
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Review: The Internship
The two stars still get the lion’s share of the choice quips, but that’s OK: They’re both on their game, and it’s their ingratiating ways with a line that keeps the humor percolating.
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Summer movie preview
The 2013 summer movie season began with a heavy metal act (Iron Man 3, which opened May 3) and will end with a pop performance (One Direction: This Is Us, […]