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Mar 2019

Wonder Park (2019)::rating::2.5::rating::2.5::rating::2.5

I t was about midway through Wonder Park, and the little boy behind me and three seats over had already had his fill. He let out a bloodcurdling, paint-peeling scream. "I…

Mar 2019

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Apollo 11 (2019)::rating::4

O n a sweltering day in September 1962, President John F. Kennedy outlined an audacious plan: Before the decade was over, the United States would put a man on the…

Mar 2019

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The Kid (2019)::rating::3

"W hen legend becomes fact, print the legend." These words close the classic Western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and they a make fitting valediction for frontier mythology. Men like the…

Mar 2019

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Camp Death III in 2D (2018)::rating::1.5

C amp Death III in 2D! clumps every moldering horror cliché into one cinematic spitwad and chucks it at the screen. For 80 minutes, it slowly slimes downward, leaving a…

Mar 2019

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A Madea Family Funeral (2019)::rating::1.5

A Madea Family Funeral filled me with a sense of grief. Not because it takes 100 minutes of my life and sends it clunking and sputtering down a garbage disposal, although…

Mar 2019

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Captain Marvel (2019)::rating::3.5

D espite its sweeping sociocultural ambition, Captain Marvel largely succeeds as robust, straightforward entertainment. A decent origin story, it benefits enormously from a skilled cast of well-placed actors and the reliable hum…

Mar 2019

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Free Solo (2018)::rating::4

M idway through Free Solo, rock climber Alex Honnold goes in for a brain scan. Honnold is training to scale the granite face of Yosemite's El Capitan, without the benefit of…

Mar 2019

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Greta (2019)::rating::3

T he script for Greta seems a lot like a Frankenstein golem, a lumbering construct of thrillers plucked from the $1 DVD bin of a Walmart: Fatal Attraction, Psycho, Single White…

Mar 2019

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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)::rating::3.5

M ost modern animated movies have slowly slipped into the same unambitious groove occupied by elevator music. The same adjectives could be sprinkled onto any of them, like pepper onto…

Feb 2019

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Fighting with My Family (2019)::rating::3.5

F ighting with My Family takes the sweaty, spandexed bravado of professional wrestling and somehow spins it into a sugary, feel-good movie. It's surprising to find out this story has some…

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