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Movie Reviews by Todd Wofford— Funny, informative movie reviews

May 2022

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)::rating::3.5::rating::3.5::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, with…

May 2022

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Kill Bill, Volumes 1 & 2 (2003, 2004)::rating::5

K ill Bill forever cements Quentin Tarantino's reputation as a cinematic mad scientist, pouring disparate chemicals into a beaker and cackling manically as they pop and fizz. The resulting concoction becomes…

May 2022

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The Lost City (2022)::rating::3

T he trailers for The Lost City filled me with dread. I feared an expensive, gauche knock-off of Romancing the Stone, Indiana Jones, and a half-dozen other, better movies. And don't get it twisted--this…

May 2022

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Uncharted (2022)::rating::2

It’s all in the execution. Uncharted gives us clunky, expository dialogue and special effects so real they look fake.

May 2022

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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)::rating::4

N o film in recent memory gets a more appropriate title than Everything Everywhere All at Once. Over the course of its dizzying, dazzling 140 minutes, multiple movie genres smash into each other,…

Apr 2022

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Morbius (2022)::rating::1

M orbius achieves a rare double feat: Over the course of its punishing 104 minutes, Daniel Espinosa's middling, piddling vampire epic manages to be glum, but without any dramatic heft. At…

Apr 2022

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Cannonball Run II (1984)::rating::5

W hen Cannonball Run II smashed into theaters, the world simply wasn't ready for it. "Sheer arrogance made this picture," Roger Ebert noted, with extreme prejudice. And he's not wrong: Hal…

Mar 2022

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The Adam Project (2022)::rating::3

M odern filmmakers borrow so much from Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Robert Zemeckis, I'm beginning to wonder if they've worked out some kinda payment plan for the royalties. Either…

Feb 2022

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Infinite (2022)::rating::1

As is, Infinite is just loud, talky, and boring. Just like its titular logo, this movie seems to never end.

Dec 2021

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The Matrix Resurrections (2021)::rating::2.5

I ronically, The Matrix Resurrections trades heavily on nostalgia for that pioneering first film, while also embodying many of the same flaws that doomed its sequels: For all the explosions and…

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