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Aug 2022

Prey (2022)::rating::4.5::rating::4.5::rating::4.5

P rey is the Predator prequel we never knew we needed. That first film was a campy, mud-soaked masterpiece of 80s mega-violence. Everything since has followed the formula of the Jurassic Park franchise:…

Jul 2022

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The Gray Man (2022)::rating::2.5

W ith its frantic action scenes and brawny stunt work, The Gray Man could be an insecure cousin to the Bourne, Bond, and John Wick flicks. As an inferior product, Gray overcompensates by being…

Jul 2022

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Nope (2022)::rating::3.5

W ith Nope, writer-director Jordan Peele delivers a bizarre, fascinating hybrid movie: On one hand, this is a burly sci-fi spectacle, with obvious echoes of Close Encounters, War of the Worlds,…

Jul 2022

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Jurassic World Dominion (2022)::rating::2

J urassic World Dominion takes hundreds of millions of dollars, Oscar-level talent, and two-plus hours of the audience's valuable time, and shovels them all into a blazing furnace. The result is a…

Jul 2022

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Ambulance (2022)::rating::2.5

A good movie flickers throughout Ambulance, like a light bulb in a haunted mansion. The only problem is, as always, director Michael Bay can't step back and let the story…

Jul 2022

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Father of the Bride (2022)::rating::2.5

T his Father of the Bride suffers from the same disease that afflicted the previous two versions: We'll call it the First World Grumpies. That means we spend most of this movie…

Jul 2022

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Watcher (2022)::rating::3

W atcher wasn't constructed with COVID in mind, but it might as well have been. On one level, this is an atmospheric little thriller that lights a fuse and lets it…

May 2022

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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)::rating::3.5

T op Gun: Maverick shouldn't work as well as it does. After all, the original film has long become an 80s nostalgia piece--a cinematic keepsake of a different era: …

May 2022

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The Northman (2022)::rating::3.5

T he Northman puts me into a bit of a tangle. On the plus side, director Robert Eggers creates a relentlessly visceral revenge epic, set against a sweeping historical backdrop.…

Apr 2022

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Moonfall (2022)::rating::2.5

M oonfall dwells in a weird limbo of mediocrity. I wish the script could've been a notch smarter, or else ten times dumber. The special effects might've been sharpened up…

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