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[ how does a studio ] decide that the amazonian feminist warrior-princess superheroine should have her entire psychological background , emotional center , raison detre and main moral conflict just be 'chris pine's penis ? '
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save [ boyd ] holbrook , none of the characters are memorable enough to sustain a slow-burn atmospheric thriller , and the slow burn nature of the scenario might well strain even the most patient horror fans .
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the film's strained attempt at hilarity out of a hopeless situation becomes so tiresome , you can't help but shrug at some of its myopic insights and sunny nihilism .
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rather than explore the ennui of its immortal characters , the movie just turns them into a knock-off superhero team .
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i am a big fan of [ christopher nolan's ] films -- i usually enjoy the time puzzle of it -- but this seems even more intentionally inaccessible and challenging than everything else confusing , distancing , and chilly .
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it's not terrible - far from it - but [ it's ] missing the comedic , emotional , and romantic spark of the first two adaptations of author jenny han's works .
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less gripping than some anthills .
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what wonder there was has vanished .
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a portrait of extreme bereavement that's compelling on the surface but feels a bit shallow underneath .
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but then , we know how it's all going to end . try as maurico might , he's no match for americanpride ? resolve ? plot contrivances ? even so , there's ultimately precious little marksman-ing on display .
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admirable intentions aside , locked down doesn't add much to the conversation .
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" soul " may fail to fully follow through on its characters or its premise , but even a duller pixar film will leave an impression .
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for a while , antonio campos' the devil all the time casts an effective spell but the longer the film wears on , the thinner that spell becomes .
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how it ends feels more like a thought experiment than a fully-baked idea even at a scant 82 minutes it feels padded , often meandering as listlessly as its protagonist and her plucky companion .
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a character magically surpasses the government's restrictions with little trouble which automatically breaks with the realism and intent of the film
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[ mackie's character ] never read asimov's first law of roboticsand certainly never read my first law of action movies : don't be boring .
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wastes a perfectly solid performance from denzel washington .
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supernova should have been an emotional tour de force - instead , it settles for being merely polite .
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timberlake showcases his range and versatility as an actor , even if this uneven redemption drama ultimately adheres too closely to formula .
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denzel washington , rami malek , and jared leto can't inject any life into this by-the-book film
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[ christopher nolan ] is very clever , but mostly irritating is what i find . [ his movies ] are not cerebral - they're fake cerebral he doesn't even do the time travel right .
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locked down is probably best taken as the lighter relationship film it partly wants to be instead of a moralistic study on the pandemic and society .
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for all its gorgeous visuals , comforting score , and strong non-verbal performances , there's just not quite enough there at the script level to make land's broader points , well , land .
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there's just not enough here to make it a worthwhile retread through familiar territory , proof of wright's basic competency as a director but nothing more .
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the overall tone is one of contrived frolicking .
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it's dumb and cartoonish as can be and there's never a single moment in which you care at all about anything going on , not even when they drag in an endangered child in order to tug on the heartstrings .
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i didn't hate it . it just made me tired .
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far from the best film about the war on terror epoch .
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deserves some credit for not milking easy tears . unfortunately , it doesn't milk difficult ones , either .
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alas , any promise in this set-up is squandered by director curtis vowell and writer sophie henderson's over-reliance on groan-worthy jokes and sitcom-style performances .
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wonder woman 1984 has tons of visual panache but none of the storytelling to back it up . all of that flair is essentially just eye candy meant to distract from an inert plot .
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here is a self-serious serial killer thriller that fees like it was made in the '90s . the fact that the first draft was written in 1993 , only reinforces how the resulting film feels old , cliched , and damn-near redundant .
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stretching out an unnecessarily long 151 minutes , wonder woman 1984 comes up short when compared to its predecessor .
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it all boils down to laughs , and barb and star doesn't deliver nearly enough of them .
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a barrage of bad ideas that should make any audience face-palm .
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penguin bloom is meant to be an inspiring film , and to some degree , it is . however it is too slow , predictable , and flat out boring to be worth a watch .
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very often feels like an eight-episode series that's been chopped into an ungainly two-hour feature , with lots of motivation , plotting , and thematic coherence left on the cutting-room floor .
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tenet is a soundtrack attached to an incoherent set of moving images .
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there is over an hour of interminable soul ( less ) -searching before the film suddenly remembers there is a diamond heist to pull off .
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a sumptuous and breezy , yet anodyne comedy of manners that's only sporadically funny and witty . the costume design is better than the movie .
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the movie combines a soft-pedaled hot issue ( illegal immigration ) with a shopworn bouquet of rote chase-movie cliches .
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a film that wends its way around time , backward and forward , needs some space , and filling it with more intricacy doesn't always work .
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if the first was a modern origin film a la christopher reeves' superman than the sequel plays out like superman iii .
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decent , but the movie's reliance on excessive gunplay and an impersonal body count leaves a bad taste in the mouth . yet , it's the characters that sink this story : not one has a personality to speak of .
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it's clear hancock went for something moody and edgy , but the little things winds up being something much worse -- it's too safe and predictable .
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the old guard is an aggressively average movie .
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forgettable 'tragedy of manners' except for michelle pfeiffer's icy , incandescent performance .
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every day is exactly the same . that's how it goes in time-loop stories , and how it can feel to write about them , too . the writers of these stories must also get bored .
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filmed through a muddy digital veil that pushes all of the colors hard towards grey , unless the entire purpose of the scene is that they are yellow .
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if the first film was nimble and funny and rather glorious in the best camp tradition , the sequel is - yawn - an allegory of human greed
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one of the zaniest serious goes i've seen in a while . i'm not sure if the film is done tongue-in-cheek or not , and it doesn't much matter .
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soul looks astonishing throughout , a triumph of technical achievement , but it's not matched by clarity of story . it feels like there are too many cooks -- or to use the film's own metaphor , too many band members playing a different tune .
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undoubtedly sincere , but it tells a potentially moving story with too heavy a hand , diluting its strength in the process .
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supernova has the disadvantage of debuting in the same year as the father . both films revolve around debilitating alzheimer's disease , only supernova isn't full of innovative camera work and some of the best performances of the year .
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the performances are flat , the script is sorely lacking in any kind of tension or stakes ( ironic , considering it's the end of the world ) , the jokes aren't funny , and the dramatic moments feel manufactured .
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it would be better if tenet gave us more to feel . that would make it easier to absorb all the confusion that this thriller sows .
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for all the subtexts and emotional resonance conveyed the first time around , [ diana prince's ] return is as empty a spectacle as the beaten down baubles of other franchise properties .
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too amoral to be cynical and too stagnant to be bitter , this gothic tale confuses its pieces just enough to prevent it from leaving an impact .
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watching wonder woman 1984 is as tough as that race diana runs at the beginning .
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by the time it's over , it's hard to shake the feeling that it's added up to , well , nothing .
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i wouldn't say you have to have seen the first instalment to enjoy it : in fact , an unfamiliarity with the general concept of cinema would probably help , if anything .
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there are too many little distractions and storytelling mistakes preventing it from being the big success it should be .
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by the third act , though , it's clear hancock doesn't have nearly the vision or intellectual conviction of the films he so clearly admires , and it more or less falls to pieces .
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despite an appealingly nutty premise and a reliably game charlize theron , the old guard can't escape the trappings of its generic plotting , expository dialogue , and underwhelming action .
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maybe you could follow what is happening if you wrote it all down on a flow chart with circles and arrows and multiple colored inks , but it wouldn't be worth the effort - and that's hard to do in a dark movie theater .
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a couple of sequences have some charm to them , but even at 80 minutes , earwig and the witch feels like a slog .
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arduous and juvenile .
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seemingly , it's about examining the validity of whether or not we're living in a simulation . but it's not . it's mostly just people saying nonsense .
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actual satire is in short supply . in order to make this work , the director needs to have the pitch-perfect tone control which , at least to this point , fennell does not possess .
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a muddled and ponderous blockbuster that is somehow both overstuffed and undercooked .
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i prefer a movie that actually has a direction and not a mishmash of events and relationships . french exit is not such a movie although there are some stand-alone moments that are entertaining .
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the two-hour tale lurches from farce to darkish social satire to thoughtful character study with few indicators that the main narrative can support that kind of carriage-shifting .
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so yes , the whos , whats , whys , wheres , whens and hows will assault you non-stop until you give up and go with the flow . unfortunately , there is nothing to feel .
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still likable , still cute , but utterly out of ideas .
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it's all just so tired , and so disappointingly few of the jokes manage to land .
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the little things is remarkably unremarkable .
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after five months stuck in front of the small screen , maybe being a little overwhelmed is no bad thing . but it's hard to escape the sense that less might have been more .
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loses steam as it goes along
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shadow in the cloud strands talented performers in an increasingly silly plot .
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outside the wire is too long , too impenetrable , and not fun enough to warrant its lofty man vs . machine gimmick .
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it's art directed within an inch of its rococo life , costumed as if by peacocks , and acted with enough verve to play to the second balconyit's so filled with largesse , it feels more like a caricature than a romantic comedy .
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it is nothing more than an excuse for [ robing wright ] to act . yes , she does a fine job acting in it , but there's nothing more to it .
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i really did enjoy wiig's performance and the 80's flare that they added to it . the main villain is stupid .
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it's a fitting end to the series not just as a closing chapter to its protagonists' high-school lives as they move on to college , but also as an admission that the franchise has run out of things to say .
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if you feel compelled to watch locked down on the streaming service because you have binge-watched everything else , then at least stop the movie in the middle . even silence is better than sitting through the second half of the production .
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it's long-winded and - when it hears from a convicted killer - in dubious taste , but it has a chilly compulsiveness .
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it skirts the line between being genuinely entertaining and a film to throw on in the background while you're cooking dinner--which , in that case , may result in the ideal pandemic movie .
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this emma is all froth; if you like froth , by all means avail yourself of it .
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while moretz isn't quite believable in her 1940s garb , she does her best with overly-obvious dialogue and jarring tonal shifts
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this neo-noir serial killer procedural flounders despite the presence of three a-list , oscar-winning actors .
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i love watching fun garbage , which is exactly what this is , but there comes a point where you must draw the line at the lack of logic occurring on screen .
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the casting alone should spur interest in the devil all the time , but can't make the movie feel like less of a slog .
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at least the rodriguez family had fun .
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the fugitive , this movie is not . malek and washington can only do so much to save the film but by god they try .
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even the worst simulation would have more clarity than this . life might be messy and weird and scary , but it possesses more honesty than this cinematic misery .
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the little things is a disappointing example of talent gone awry , and a cautionary tale for anyone who thinks making a genre film is easy or that talented actors can't get lost once in a while .
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the dig has all of the tools of a well produced piece and sadly is something that should have been left deep in the ground .
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it's funny that the movie names itself supernova , because it never reaches for stars .
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[ cassie's ] whip-smart , clever and slightly unhinged -- and she deserves so much better than what she gets .
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if you're looking for emotional complexity , penguin bloom is not for you . even watts can't turn penguin bloom into anything more than a familiar tale made more disarming by the presence of a magpie .
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