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what jared leto , rami malek , and especially denzel washington saw in this film is beyond me .

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when we reach the end of the mauritanian's 129 minutes , the only reason the story will still matter to viewers is rahim's mesmerizing performance .

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tenet is self-indulgent and wildly in love with its own cleverness .

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destined to be quickly forgotten , it would need to play a hardcore genre festival to find an appreciative audience of any size .

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this film does nothing . it means nothing .

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by the time it gives us enough clues to figure out what's real and what's simulated , you might not care enough to put them together .

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it's like a " saturday night live " sketch given a lot of money so that they could hire every showbiz pal they have as they tried to fill 107 minutes of screen time .

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the tone of wonder woman 1984 wobbles from half-serious political satire to silly comedy . jenkins parodies back to the future to depict eighties kitsch , but her film ends up just being tacky like richard donner's 1978 superman .

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an unflinching look at man's inhumanity towards man , although one that fails to properly engage with its subject matter .

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what's really there to untangle , beyond loops of string and a whole lot of smoke rings ?

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a slow to the starting line cat and mouse game .

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it's an attempt to refashion limitations into creative inspirations , making pulpy , spiked lemonade out of society-crippling pandemic lemons .

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it should have been so much more fun to watch three terrific actors , denzel washington , rami malek and jared leto , combine forces . but too many holes and too little intensity makes the promised bonuses here just not add up .

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in this era of increased calls for more authentic and inclusive representation onscreen , watts' casting seems , at the very least , outdated .

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a slow , ponderous , and somewhat boring effort that takes its sweet time in revealing exactly what's going on .

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for the first time in a long time christopher nolan's work just gets a bit tiring and tiresome as he exploits his obsession with time yet again in a way that's more noisy than expressive .

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unfortunately , " wonder woman 1984 " represents another miss for a dc character and , considering its predecessor's debut , it's not an insignificant one .

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mostly this isn't the thrill-ride you might be hoping for . there's plenty of fire but , oddly , not much heat .

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if you're willing to turn off your brain for the mercifully brief duration , you might enjoy this serving of utterly ludicrous but zippy nonsense .

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a misbegotten ode to isolation

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everything that propelled patty jenkins' previous effort feels notably absent here .

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" tenet " is difficult to understand , but even worse , it inspires little desire to understand it .

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the mauritanian fails to humanize the story it's telling , never coming off as something more challenging or interesting than a superficial , manipulative accounting of true events .

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doug liman's gimmicky dud about a london diamond heist set during the pandemic falsely assumes that quarantined audiences are panting to see films about being quarantined . despite a starry cast led by anne hathaway , 'locked down' is a major letdown .

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the zoom interviews are understandable during the covid-19 pandemic , but they're frustratingly abstract , offering no sense of what it means to actually live your life convinced the world is fake .

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it strives to be a modern version of a screwball comedy , but winds up seeming screwy but not much of a ball for the audience .

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some movies are born bad; some achieve badness through lack of care or budget . some seem to aspire to it and michael polish has had a long enough career to know the difference .

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like so many characters in this glum , shaggy ramble of a film , director antonio campos gets lost in the woods .

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for all its complication of the relationship between the personal and epochal , the dig nevertheless contains a tonal tension that is ultimately irreconcilable , its introspective lyricism undermined by predictable period beats .

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we can be heroes may be a bit much for adults , but kids will appreciate the moments and messages .

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based on a true story this potentially engrossing film fails over and over to capture the attention of the audience .

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the cast are solid talents , but all struggle to breath life into a film already overstuffed and whittled down to the point of leaving no time for any natural humanity to flow though it .

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an incomprehensible and pretentious misfire from the usually reliable christopher nolan .

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the title might already be taken , but it's a shame they didn't release penguin bloom as the thieving magpie .

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the auteur doesn't show much growth in his most recent self-indulgent work .

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a wonder woman story in 2020 could be uplifting and inspiring , and this film is neither .

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tenet instead feels like it's pushing you away from engaging with its deeper plot , rather than inviting you in to engage with it intimately .

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" tenet " squanders all its visual spectacle through obtuse storytelling and dramatic inertia .

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for those looking for a slow burn , this werewolf tale is too reliant on cheap jump scares . for those in the mood for gore and a good time , it's far too slow--stagnant , even .

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so on the surface , it sounds like a perfect match - but prisoners of the ghostland never manages to rise to the level of its cast or premise .

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intentions are noble , but " shadow in the clouds " is a fantasy film , hurting the picture's closing summary of respect for those who actually served valiantly in wwii

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if only the film on the whole had as cavernous a bite as any one of its frightening brutes .

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charming moments it may have several , but it's frustratingly at the expense of its own socio-economic commentary .

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despite a clearly substantial budget and starry cast , it feels closer to an overblown tv pilot than to spectacle on the marvel scale .

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too bad writer-director mike cahill flooded his movie with too many unanswered questions and it doesn't help that he loves to go ambiguous in a terribly muddled manner .

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despite some good work from the actors , and impressive visuals at times , even as a time-passer , outside the wire comes up short .

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promising young woman too frequently pulls its punches .

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the film has a great premise and some cool moments of action , but the overall delivery falls short of expectation .

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anyone who insists tenet is important or otherwise notable is probably trying to sell you something .

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there is certainly an attempt or at least a flirtation with some deeper idea but neither the script or direction commit and so what the audience is left with is a rather simplistic and superficial adaptation of austen's emma .

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i'm not sure [ the old guard ] really offers enough with its concept other than a few decent fight scenes .

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there's subversive material lurking within the pages of this script ( by eleanor catton ) that fails to replicate austen's signature witticism for a 21st-century audience .

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the enjoyable elements of the little things are little and worthwhile , whereas the bigger , more necessary pieces are missing

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brothers by blood is essentially a cheap wannabe martin scorsese gangster filmlike a lot of derivative mobster flicks , brothers by blood limits the female characters in very sexist and shallow ways .

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pesky things like narrative and character development only get in nolan's way , to the point where i cannot help but feel his next film should abandon storytelling altogether .

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the little things is trying so hard to be something grandiose and , instead , ended up as a predictable slog .

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indeed , it has been made in a slick and entirely professional manner . no , the trouble is that , despite all of the talent involved , it just never comes together .

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for a film obsessed with nailing every minute detail , it's those small missteps that make the little things a vexing conundrum .

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the terrific cast intermittently electrifies , but it can't bring to life a cold and stiff script .

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french exit wobbles in a scattered capriciousness that's difficult to shake .

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'tenet' may contain [ nolan's ] most ambitious use of time , but also , ultimately , the least effective .

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ellis crafts an absolutely beautiful film that has no substance . he has a great sense for framing a scene , with no ability to elicit emotion .

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far from teaching children to follow their dreams , the movie advocates leaving the dreaming to the pros .

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altogether , it makes for a chilly , cerebral film - easy to admire , especially since it's so rich in audacity and originality , but almost impossible to love , lacking as it is in a certain humanity .

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the animation is striking , the premise enchanting , but it is ultimately failed by the execution . a film that drinks its own kool-aid to the point of really turning off a viewer .

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if this script was " too dark " to be made in '93 , you know it must feel dated by now and it certainly does .

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this is a slow burn thriller that's been doused in flame retardant with little hope of heating up to deliver anything remotely interesting .

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the blooms feel like every other in the family adversity sub-genre-cardboard cutouts of whom we knew little before the accident except , you know , that they might have come straight from the set of a salad ad .

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without at least six more hours to gently nurture and finesse all of these threads and emotions , campos' film comes across like a chaotic , exhausting mess

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here we are caring and wondering a little more about literal dirt than the figurative variety .

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the film loses its way in the middle , and tries to pull things back for a decent ending . however , while perhaps better late than never is a good motto , that isn't necessarily the case for locked down .

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a throwback thriller which brings nothing new to a crowded genre , and has little to say along the way . they don't make 'em like this anymore , and , to be honest , they probably shouldn't .

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i can't help but think that a more brisk , headlong rush through the story would have insured " the little things " had the devastating effect the director was striving for .

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instead of striking an authentic chord , palmer mostly settles for hollywood posturing .

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for all the violence and nihilism , it still feels curiously safe; too stuffed with stars for it to be genuinely ugly .

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cage has been accused of sleepwalking through some of his recent choices , letting the kitschy goodwill of his viral clips from other films do half of his acting for him . that's never been truer than here .

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this is lip-gloss misanthropy packaged as feminist manifesto , clever but not smart , cynical without being perceptive or particularly passionate . women are angry for good reason . they also deserve better movies than this one .

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a little mystery and a lot less narration would have better-served this sordid saga .

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although the movie can be a bit bland , i doubt whether many viewers will be disappointed that little fish plays more like romance than speculative sci-fi

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the devil all the time has the pretensions of a mythopoetic story that's chipping away at a community's dark underbelly . but here the misery is as belly-up and eager to be noticed as a house cat or a dead fish .

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it's all mood , and i don't know if it necessarily adds up .

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bliss could not figure out what kind of film it wanted to be , as the convoluted story never finds its footing .

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clocking in with a two-and-half hour runtime , ww84 feels as bloated as it is , with senseless combat sequences , random occurrences , and a new mcguffin for every act . there shouldn't be four fantastic four movies better than this .

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the movie won't stop treating you like an idiot .

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while interesting , at nearly two hours the film feels repetitive and , compared to 'room 237 , ' rather shallow .

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a solid 3 . 5 star movie rating was unfolding . then the big shootout battle reared its ugly head and the film became an overindulgent mash-up of inception and 1917 that led to a dramatic drop-off in quality - and my interest .

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much like alvin at two crucial points in his life , campos gets lost in the woods here , buckling under the disparate tones of its cast and pollock's overbearing presence on the material .

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the story is a sadistic killjoycold and often boring

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dash shaw's hand drawn animated flick " cryptozoo " is too strange and outlandish for its own good .

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perhaps bliss would have worked better as a short , as director mike cahill's signature use of an open-ended and ambiguous ending will prove frustrating for most .

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a burdensome chamber piece .

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given the standing of 2017's wonder woman as one of the best superhero movies ever made ( top 15 , for sure ) , there's no getting around the fact that the highly anticipated wonder woman 1984 registers as a massive disappointment .

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awell-oiled exploitation of the pain of others within the logic of european colonialism .

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prince-bythewood makes a clunky transition to action filmmaking with a visually shoddy and narratively predicable work that wastes the talents of a gifted ensemble .

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i guess it's a landmark in itself that we've reached the point in our pandemic art deluge that references to the pandemic might elicit not tears or winces , but shrugs .

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no matter how many calamities reign down from above , it's never in doubt that the residents of this sheep enclave will be just fine . their middlebrow fantasy may be charming , but it's also completely forgettable .

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the worth of the film could fill a bumper sticker , and , luckily for them , that seems to be what they were striving for with this sequel .

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notturno is sometimes beautiful and rosi makes good use of private spaces , but it comes off as an exploitation of the region and its people's pain .

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as aggressively pointless as this can be and generally is , there's something engaging about its proudly threadbare showmanship .

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kevin macdonald's the mauritanian squanders the potential of its rich source material .

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