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Movie Review: Arrival

Movie Review: Arrival

Like the best science fiction Arrival disguises its true intentions, its greater themes and deeper conversation, under images of spaceships and aliens and that thing that lives in our brains that makes us look up and wonder
Movie Review: The Confirmation

Movie Review: The Confirmation

The Confirmation is a small film, one that snuck into a few theatres and onto streaming services with little noise. It needs to be seen
Movie Review: You probably haven't heard of him, but Doctor Strange is darn entertaining

Movie Review: You probably haven't heard of him, but Doctor Strange is darn entertaining

Doctor Strange is a singular experience. Hallucinatory and yet somehow grounded, serious and at times quite funny, it is a film of paradoxes
Movie Review: Doctor Strange

Movie Review: Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange is a singular experience. Hallucinatory and yet somehow grounded, serious and at times quite funny, it is a film of paradoxes
Movie Review: The Accountant

Movie Review: The Accountant

The Accountant feels like it's based on a series of pulp books that came out when book store shelves were filled with Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan novels. That it is completely original only adds to the fun.
Movie Review: The Magnificent Seven

Movie Review: The Magnificent Seven

For all of its faults and failings, The Magnificent Seven is just so much damned fun. And there haven't been a whole lot of just fun Westerns in a quite a while.
Movie Review: Snowden

Movie Review: Snowden

Snowden is, for the most part, pretty dull
Movie Review: Don't Breathe

Movie Review: Don't Breathe

Don't Breathe has nothing in common with modern horror films, there is nothing supernatural hiding behind the walls of the house they're breaking into, just a blind vet with a lot of rage.
Movie review: Sausage Party

Movie review: Sausage Party

Sausage Party is a Disney film, if old Walt had smoked a bowl with his animators. A film of contradictions and paradoxes, it is filled with moments of Pixar-ish emotional realism and questions of great import
Movie Review: Suicide Squad

Movie Review: Suicide Squad

If the motivation is to hurry the death of the comic book movie genre, they're doing a great job