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4/5
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The Accountant 2
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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The Accountant 2’s unnecessarily complicated plot and serviceable action exist essentially to put Christian and Braxton on screen together, which is fine when the result is as entertaining as this movie.
Posted Apr 24, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Shrouds
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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Motivated by the thorny act of grieving, The Shrouds is David Cronenberg’s most personal film and is as complicated, and occasionally uncomfortable, as the act of grief itself.
Posted Apr 24, 2025
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3.5/5
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Cheech & Chong's Last Movie
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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The documentary Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie is an enjoyable walk down memory lane with two fun tour guides. It’s a detailed, even sober contemplation of the stoner comedian’s career and impact on comedy.
Posted Apr 24, 2025
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3/5
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The Legend of Ochi
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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The entertaining The Legend of Ochi feels like an arthouse How to Train Your Dragon or 1980s Amblin movie without the lens flares but with a Dr. Doolittle twist.
Posted Apr 24, 2025
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4/5
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Sinners
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Director Ryan Coogler calls the movie mashup 'genre fluid,' and even that clever descriptor doesn’t come close to capturing the width and breadth of the story.
Posted Apr 17, 2025
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4/5
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One to One: John & Yoko
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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Abstract in its presentation, but immersive in its effect, One To One: John & Yoko captures the aura of a chaotic time for the couple, both personally and professionally, as the couple struggled to find their place in a complicated world
Posted Apr 17, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Wedding Banquet
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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It’s the emotion scenes that elevate The Wedding Banquet from standard rom com to, if not drama, at least a low-key dramedy, heavy on the poignant moments.
Posted Apr 17, 2025
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2.5/5
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G20
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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G20 is a parade of cliches that leads up to an unlikely twist and logic defying climax that only plays out in the way that it does to provide another opportunity for some showy action theatrics.
Posted Apr 10, 2025
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4/5
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Drop
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Not since the high-flying blackmail of Wes Craven’s Red Eye has a movie embraced its unlikely premise with such conviction. But if you buy in to the story, and I did, Drop is a darkly funny thriller.
Posted Apr 10, 2025
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4/5
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Warfare
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Warfare is a visceral slice-of-life-and-death with grisly scenes that would make Hieronymus Bosch turn his face away, but it is the portrait of the personal toll paid by the soldiers that resonates.
Posted Apr 10, 2025
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2/5
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The Amateur
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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The Amateur is a workmanlike thriller, with loads of style but few actual thrills.
Posted Apr 10, 2025
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3.5/5
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A Minecraft Movie
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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A Minecraft Movie It’s an extremely silly action-adventure video game adaptation, colored with creativity and exuberant performances from Jason Momoa, Jack Black, and Jennifer Coolidge.
Posted Apr 03, 2025
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2
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Queen of the Ring
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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A three-time women’s world champion Mildred Burke was the queen of the ring and enjoyed a career that was anything but standard. It’s a shame then, that her biopic, Queen of the Ring is such a straightforward affair.
Posted Apr 03, 2025
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3/5
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A Nice Indian Boy
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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A Nice Indian Boy feels like My Big Fat Greek Wedding with a cultural twist. It doesn’t go anywhere you don’t expect it to go, but despite its predictability, it’s a charming sit-commy diversion.
Posted Apr 03, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Friend
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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An understated story about the transformational power of companionship, The Friend will pull at your heartstrings like a Great Dane tugging on its leash.
Posted Apr 03, 2025
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3/5
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A Working Man
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Jason Statham is back with A Working Man, which feels like a remake of all of his other movies. Despite the sense of déjà vu I had while while watching it, I liked it when Statham was punching people. I liked it less when he wasn’t.
Posted Mar 27, 2025
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2.5/5
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Death of a Unicorn
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Death of a Unicorn is an uneven movie that attempts to mix daddy and daughter family dynamics, with a satire of the pharmaceutical industry and unicorns who who toss their victims around like human piñatas.
Posted Mar 27, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Penguin Lessons
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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A story of compassion and empathy set against the inhumanity of a political coup, The Penguin Lessons works best when it focusses on the relationship between man and penguin.
Posted Mar 27, 2025
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2.5/5
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Holland
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Unfortunately, Nancy (Kidman) is placed at the heart of movie that is short on thrills. The action unfolds slowly without enough twists and turns to fully immerse the audience in the strange world of Nancy and Holland, Michigan.
Posted Mar 27, 2025
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3.5/5
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Darkest Miriam
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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Darkest Miriam is a touching film that replaces sentimentality with a quirky sensibility, but, while unconventional, never forgets to be tenderhearted.
Posted Mar 27, 2025
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2.5/5
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O'Dessa
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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O’Dessa builds a cyberpunk world for its characters to inhabit that feels, like the rest of the movie, like a new story built on the foundations of films like Mad Max and The Hunger Games.
Posted Mar 20, 2025
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3/5
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Disney's Snow White
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Director Marc Webb manages a balance between Snow White’s new and old elements, but, despite Rachel Zegler’s impressive vocal abilities, some lively choreography and vibrant set design, the result is more Ho Hum than Hi Ho.
Posted Mar 20, 2025
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4/5
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Bob Trevino Likes It
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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A feel good tearjerker, Bob Trevino Likes It could easily have slid into easy platitudes and sentimentality but director Tracie Laymon displays a light touch, even when dealing with difficult topics.
Posted Mar 20, 2025
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2.5/5
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The Alto Knights
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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The Alto Knights is a slick movie, with nice period details, but the shallow look at the relationships of the protagonists and a repetitive, drawn-out script blunts the power of the story.
Posted Mar 20, 2025
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4/5
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Black Bag
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Like John le Carré meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Black Bag is a dialogue driven spy drama fueled by star power rather than fire power.
Posted Mar 13, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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Jam packed with jokes, sight gags and the well-worn friendship between Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie creates a world for the characters that should please old fans and get new viewers up to speed.
Posted Mar 13, 2025
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3.5/5
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Novocaine
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Novocaine’s superpower isn’t Nathan’s immunity to pain, it’s Quaid’s likability.
Posted Mar 13, 2025
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3/5
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Can I Get a Witness?
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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Can I Get A Witness? is a science fiction film with life affirming ideas and several emotional high-points, instead of splashy special effects, that asks, What would you be willing to sacrifice for a better world?
Posted Mar 13, 2025
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2.5/5
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Opus
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Opus is an intriguing but scattershot satire of celebrity culture and the press’s complicity in spreading ideology. Stars Ayo Edebiri and John Malkovich entertain, but the film bites off more than it can chew.
Posted Mar 13, 2025
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3.5/5
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Seven Veils
(2023)
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Richard Crouse
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Rich with metaphor and suspense, Seven Veils is an intellectual thriller about art imitating life.
Posted Mar 06, 2025
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4/5
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Mickey 17
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Mickey 17 is jam packed with comments on identity, survival and colonization, and while the story gets muddled by times, the movie impresses with its originality and commitment to entertaining while firing up the synapses.
Posted Mar 06, 2025
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3.5/5
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Night of the Zoopocalypse
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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From the premise to the look of the film, directors Rodrigo Perez-Castro and Ricardo Curtis conjure up a horror epic for film fans, young and old.
Posted Mar 06, 2025
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3.5/5
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Last Breath
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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“Last Breath is a simple story of an extraordinary effort that succeeds because it’s not just about survival or the unusual situation, but because of the heroic, human effort that went into its deep-sea rescue."
Posted Feb 28, 2025
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3.5/5
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My Dead Friend Zoe
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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My Dead Friend Zoe is part dark comedy, part ghost story and part family drama but in its totality is greater than the sum of its parts as a heartbreaking study of the effects of PTSD
Posted Feb 27, 2025
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3/5
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Superboys of Malegaon
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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Superboys of Malegaon is a crowd-pleaser about the importance of representation in art and the joy that movies can bring and those qualities make up for the film’s narrative shortcomings.
Posted Feb 27, 2025
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3/5
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Morningside
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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A fractured portrait of a place and a place in time, Morningside does a good job of weaving together disparate stories to form a narrative whole. It’s a broad canvas, but captivating characters keep the piecemeal story cohesive and compelling.
Posted Feb 21, 2025
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2/5
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The Unbreakable Boy
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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The Unbreakable Boy feels like a series of platitudes cobbled together to garner maximum emotional impact as it winds its way to a feel good, happy ending.
Posted Feb 21, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Monkey
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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The Monkey feels like an old-fashioned Stephen King movie. It’s a little rough-and-tumble, meanspirited and it delivers a series of practical splatter gags in great big gory blasts.
Posted Feb 20, 2025
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3/5
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The Gorge
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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The Gorge is a big budget actioner about human connection, but when it is running, jumping, shooting etc, it feels less inventive than it does when it focusses on the simple stuff, like the bond between two people who have searched for love.
Posted Feb 13, 2025
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3.5/5
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Paddington in Peru
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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Paddington in Peru lacks the whimsical edge of the first two films in the franchise, but nonetheless, it is a thoroughly enjoyable family film that teeter totters between the silly and the sentimental.
Posted Feb 13, 2025
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4/5
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Bridget Jones has grown up, somewhat, and so have her movies. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the welcome new chapter in her story features the usual quirky, and often messy, romantic adventures but they are tempered by bittersweet life experience.
Posted Feb 13, 2025
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3/5
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Captain America: Brave New World
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Captain America: Brave New World has entertaining aerial scenes and, in the Red Hulk, a role that allows Harrison Ford, the best angry man in movies, to let his freak flag fly but it doesn’t have the epic feel of other MCU movies.
Posted Feb 13, 2025
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2/5
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Kinda Pregnant
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Kinda Pregnant’s clichéd message of learning to love oneself before seeking it elsewhere comes a bit too late, long after our love for the movie has gone.
Posted Feb 06, 2025
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3/5
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Heart Eyes
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Is it a violent rom com? Yup. Is it a googly-eyed slasher flick? Also correct. Director Josh Ruben has throws teen comedy, rom coms and slasher flicks into a blender, and whips up a tasty cocktail of Scream and 10 Things I Hate About You.
Posted Feb 06, 2025
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3.5/5
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Universal Language
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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Universal Language is whimsical, both visually and thematically, but the movie takes its ideas of the value people bring to communities, and how humanity burns bright, even in chilly Winnipeg winters very seriously.
Posted Feb 05, 2025
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3/5
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Bring Them Down
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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Grim and gritty, Bring Them Down is an intense thriller about generational trauma, revenge and sheep… with powerful performances that is gripping right up to, but not including, its vague, final moments.
Posted Feb 05, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Order
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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In many ways The Order is a run-of-the-mill police procedural about two men on opposite sides of the law, but it keeps the action taut enough, and the violence visceral enough, to make up for the more familiar elements.
Posted Feb 05, 2025
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4/5
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Companion
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Companion invites the viewer in, and then subverts expectations, breathing the same air as shows like Black Mirror by blending social commentary with genuine thrills and lots of dark humor.
Posted Jan 30, 2025
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3/5
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Dog Man
(2025)
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Richard Crouse
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Subtle, Dog Man is not, but in between the farting buildings and other goofy jokes are good messages on doing the right thing, forgiveness and the importance of family.
Posted Jan 30, 2025
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4/5
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Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
(2024)
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Richard Crouse
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Rich in archival footage, Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story is not just a document of one performer’s life, but an engaging look at the era and the people that produced her.
Posted Jan 30, 2025
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