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a joyless dud , a bucket of sludge when we're crying out for a glass of water

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failing to live up to its own high standards

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it's basically just explaining the rules of this world over and over again for what feels like an hour while taking the emotions of the characters for granted .

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had the filmmakers taken a more easygoing approach , locked down might have landed in the realm of the thomas crown affair .

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the wachowskis intended the matrix franchise to be a metaphor for their transgender identities .

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the night forgets how to scare the audience entirely with each passing moment .

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one hopes chan and schwarzenegger were well-compensated for lending their names to this disaster .

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despite its head-fake toward current-events relevance , " the marksman " is a serviceable road thriller that demonstrates that liam neeson is slowly , inexorably , morphing into clint eastwood .

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a good premise , a great cast , a terrible screenplay .

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the wonderfully-named preston teagardin , another predatory and weirdly pot-bellied preacher played with great relish by robert pattinson , who once again turns up halfway through a netflix movie and ostentatiously walks off with it .

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there's a lot to like here , but much like frances , the film needed to scale down a bit and recognize when to quit while you're ahead .

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it's always sad when the highlight of a female-led film are the two male supporting characters .

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if tenet were a beatles song , it would be revolution 9 : gun shots and car crashes , breaking glass and muffled words , all come together in a mix , made all the more unintelligible by segments happening forward and backward .

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i didn't get a migraine , but there are stronger recommendations .

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this haphazard documentary is centered around philip k . dick's fascinating lecture and leads up to a terrifying ending , but it's mostly pop culture references and unconvincing arguments .

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there's only so much you can take of an actor loudly cursing at the skies before it tips over from tragic to hilarious , particularly when he's barely convincing as his paper-thin character to begin with .

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emma is , admittedly , a singularly tough novel to adapt for the screen .

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just because a film's made for children doesn't mean it has to be juvenile .

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the film falls short of its predecessor on a number of levels and suffers from many of the problems that plague superhero sequels including an inability to achieve the same level of freshness .

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holding this film back is something more significant , a flaccid script written around a half-decent premise that some of the best actors currently working can sell in moments , but not as a whole .

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for some , this will be too miserable a cinematic experience to endure . for others , they'll be able to get on its dour wavelength and find things to appreciate .

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compare how strong the film started to how weak it ends - the real mystery is how it got there .

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the characterization in penguin bloom feels too generic for its own good -- there's a curious distance that the film maintains while prodding at their inner lives .

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liman is known for his restless style and tight storytelling abilities , but he can't get past the inherent heaviness of " locked down , " which tries to play brightly , at least passably so , but it's dealing with grimness .

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the challenge isn't grasping the big ideas , but connecting with these two characters .

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directed by antonio campos , the devil takes itself very seriously , yet never manages to seem more than an arbitrary pileup of gloating misfortunes .

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ww84 relies so heavily on cornball gimmicks and dumb coincidences that it might as well have been written in 1984 - the year of supergirl .

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whatever points the little things scores for a morally ambiguous ending are washed away in the hours it takes to get there .

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dewitt's zingers hit and miss , some sticking in the actors' mouth as proof that not every bon mot is as easily delivered as it is read . but then , maybe jacobs is the mismatch .

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the old guard highlights the dilemma with fidelity being considered a merit in adaptationsthough [ it ] does not favour one audience over the other , it still fails to capture the appeal the comic book had for readers to the uninitiated viewers .

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first-time director wright's efforts behind a feature film camera suffer from lots of silence and -- except for those undeniably showy gifts of nature -- little energy in a story we have seen played before with more vibrancy and less predictability .

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hopes to dazzle audiences with grand spectacle and massive amounts of property damage , but offers little else worth paying attention to .

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it felt like there were all these great pieces here , but they didn't really do anything terribly interesting with them . they threw them in a lab and [ added ] a whole bunch of john wick [ -esque ] scenes in hallways .

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violent but blah mob drama has drinking , tons of language .

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[ it ] has its moments , but slammed together into one feature , they feel like they're fighting for dominance from one scene to the next , resulting in a film that , for all the work that's clearly gone into it , just doesn't seem to know what it wants to say .

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sam pollard's mlk/fbi documentary neglects to uncover or unravel any new facts that weren't already speculated on by the general public about martin luther king jr .

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this has a few saving graces with chris pine and kristen wiig . i still love what this character represents but want them to have top quality and writing for the next one .

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sono's films certainly aren't known for following a straight line from a to b , but this time around , there's barely any internal logic or rules or even stakes to make this jumble of genre tropes remotely interesting .

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emma is far too slow and predictable for my taste . although , the costumes and scenery are worth a quick peek .

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a timely , if not especially illuminating , look at the biggest conspiracy theory of them all .

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there's a daftness to even the less surehanded eastwood films that lorenz , as a man of merely 55 years , cannot seem to replicate naturally .

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like a play in the worst possible way . it feels stagy , claustrophobic , and overacted .

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this forgettable action-thriller features decent combat scenes but threadbare storytelling .

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though pedro pascal and kristen wiig do their best to inject life into their respective villains , wonder woman 1984 is a two and a half hour empty shell of pseudo-inspiration and laughably bad action .

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the screenplay needed more work and the film in the can a lot more editing to make " the mauritanian " worthy of the talent on the set .

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no amount of slick story beats and scene chewing from washington , malek , and leto can save such a thoughtlessly outdated premise .

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a genre piece is seldom good if it's trying to so aggressively to evoke past texts : it tries hard to be " wise blood , " but the devil all the time is more of an annoying dud .

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the latest in a string of recent action movies that frame the mexico-united states border as a fraught psychic terrain for america's aging white male warrior class .

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shadow in the cloud marks the one time landis wrote a movie with any kind of female perspective and despite liang and moretz's best efforts it still feels that way .

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when the most interesting choice in your thriller is jared leto's paunch you know you're in for a bad time .

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keep your distance .

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the map of tiny perfect things is plagued with an uninspired story , flat characters , and a pair of romantic leads that have zero chemistry . it's not overtly offensive , but it's certainly the kind of movie we won't remember two time-loops from now .

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earwig's themes are so disjointed that it's not quite clear what the takeaway is .

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other than an undeniably strange and compelling score from clint mansell , this is near-total waste of time and energy for all involved .

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the swerve in tone undermines the film's aspirations for moral complexity .

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all the potential -- for her character and for this sequel , her fighting abilities , the kinds of villains she could face , the action scenes -- feels dulled here . in the end somehow i wanted more of wonder woman .

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cryptozoo exists at that delicate crossroads between arrogant and obnoxious where freshman cosmology majors tend to hang out , free-climbing the outside of the dorm and doing slackrope in the park .

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the lackluster little fish banks on the automatic pathos of its subject matter , unaware that such delicate material actually requires greater skill and finesse to pull off , now more than ever .

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it's abstractly tragic , about a vague idea of something rather than anything or anyone specific . dementia is scary and sad . that's about as particular as supernova gets .

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though her nascent talents are honed towards the visual end , de wilde's storytelling sensibilities are not quite up to par .

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it's significantly overlong while missing a lot of the things that worked so well about the original .

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highlander said there can be only one , yet there kept being more . the old guard has the audacity to set up a sequel which surely netflix will do regardless of viewership who wants to watch these forever anyway ?

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slick action scenes and visual effects can't save the tediously complex tenet .

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it's not a cynical film , which is important , given the subject matter . however , it's not a terribly creative one either .

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unfortunately to all the boys : always and forever is as painfully mediocre .

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fennell doesn't beat around the bush in pointing out just how not nice these " nice guys " are , but her message gets lost in translation .

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there is certainly some interesting moral ambiguity to explore when it comes to religion , but the nihilistic perspective of the devil all the time feels smug .

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cage , dyed hair , beard and boots , brings home the b-movie bacon , as usual . it's just seriously undercooked this time out .

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a missed opportunitya hapless mixture of drama and farce that wastes some good performances , including two by drew barrymore .

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despite emma's veneer of snarky modernity , austen's characters and scenarios are rehashed rather predictably .

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entertaining enough , and refreshingly light in many ways , but so vague in all its key points that it's hard to be especially invested .

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wonder woman 1984 fails to capture the triumphant spirit of the titular character by applying archetypes that are as dated as the year it's set in .

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it goes to show all the splashy action in the world does not get you anywhere , for this critic at least , if the characters aren't engaging and the story isn't interesting

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in rosi's pursuit to win hearts and eyes , with notturno , the heart beats inauthentically .

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early hopes of back to the future , an 80s film whose sequels bucked the trend , give way to a dawning sense of wonder woman's whip endlessly spinning out but never connecting .

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for all its flash , " promising young woman " lacks the courage of its convictions .

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" the mauritanian " is a moral muddle as well as a narrative one , and it leaves you wondering why our empathy for slahi has to be so mediated , negotiated and rationalized in the first place .

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tenet can very likely be explained . i'm not sure it can be experienced .

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of all the steadily slower-moving action pictures liam neeson has stumbled into the sunset with in the latter stages of his action hero career , " the marksman " stands out as the stupidest .

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mediocre espionage sci-fi thriller .

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in land , the sad , isolated feelings that come with bereavement saturate the story , but the film has surprisingly very little to say about grief .

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much of the blame lies in steven knight's schizoid script , an amalgam of contradictions that is filled with all-too-convenient implausibilities to fully be taken at face value .

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wonder woman 1984 is an appalling misfire .

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for those who miss the floundering familiarities of a woody allen film but for moral reasons won't bring themselves to support the controversial filmmaker , french exit attempts to quench that desire .

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there might not be 84 minutes of wonder woman in the two-and-a-half-hour wonder woman 1984

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look kids - it's not great . entertaining , sure . funny in parts , of course . great , if disconnected , fight scenes . but it's a lot of something and too much of everything else .

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a massive , sprawling , largely incomprehensible mess , albeit with nolan's usual slick action scenes and sense of weight .

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it's as if you're trying to solve a math problem while cars crash around you and there's a variable you're constantly missing .

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" no man's land " message of unity gets bogged down by lazy plot mechanics , including a half-minded redemption narrative that never takes off and cartoonish protagonists too illogical for audiences to take seriously .

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there's not much in the way of academic or intellectual discussion here , just a cacophony of anecdotes and coincidences , intercut with footage from various films and video games , none of it carrying any weight .

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how it ends is a pretty but meandering series of comedic cameos that offers a mixed bag of gags and not really anything interesting to say .

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outside the wire repeatedly pushes the central irony of pairing an emotionally detached human with a compassionate killing machine without drawing any meaningful conclusions from their contrasting personalities .

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i wish " tenet " exploited its own ideas more dynamically . nolan's a prodigious talent . but no major director , i suppose , can avoid going sideways from time to time .

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everything " promising young woman " is trying to do has been done better .

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like so many presents found under the tree this christmas day , there might be a lot of folks asking for a refund after viewing this sad excuse for a sequel .

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on the positive side there is gal gadot . on the negative side there is the script , the setting , kristen wiig , pedro pascal , etcetera , etcetera , etcetera .

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timberlake is going to have to find a way back to filmmakers like david fincher if he ever wants to make an actual go at this acting thing .

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gonzo american action meets bonkers japanese martial arts cinema , and the results are predictably a muddled , if entertaining , goop of randomness .

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you have this very empty movie , ultimately .

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earwig and the witch is a disappointing hour and a half of plot set-up that feels like it ends before it begins

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