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a nice movie about nice people .
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land is a film about grief and the decisions we choose to make in response for better or worse .
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gadot remains a winning and winsome figure in wonder woman 1984 and she retains her authentic connection with the audience , but the machinery around her has grown larger and unwieldy .
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compelling up to a point ( until hancock squanders all the goodwill he's built up with these actors and the whole thing devolves into nonsense ) .
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the 1980s scene promised nostalgia and humor however , the potential of this concept ends up being wasted .
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a well-meaning life-lesson narrative wrapped up in ableist rhetoric and a sappy sheen .
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neo-noir cop drama that feels like true crime fan fiction .
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they don't engage with wonder woman's true power of compassion when her superhuman strength proves more cinematic for shallow blockbuster thrills . it's all smoke and mirrors .
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we need to know more about edee than we're shown , and that's a problem not even the wyoming scenery and sensitive acting can overcome .
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while the potent power of the picture's heartfelt sentiments and charismatic leads do shine through , the flaws are too glaring , eclipsing its brilliance .
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writer-director mike cahill takes earnest stabs at big ideas and themes , including the concept of " bliss , " but never clearly or cogently enough to draw us in on an emotional or intellectual level .
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overall , wonder woman 1984 set its sights high in the sky . gadot , jenkins and wiig are on board but it essentially struggles to find its wings .
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his stunts feel realer than his stakes .
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its earnestness is its greatest strength or biggest weakness , depending on what you're looking for in a superhero film .
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macqueen's approach to his leading men is too respectful . instead of zooming in close to get inside their heads , he keeps his distance , as does the audience .
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penguin bloom is not a terrible film by any means thanks to the good performers , intentions and some fine filmmaking . it is unfortunate however that the flawed storytelling , simplistic messaging and predictability prevent the film from soaring .
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overcast with a cheap hollywood glaze , the mauritanian's punches may land in the moment , but they fade quickly .
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it's hard to make jane austen boring but the new version of emma does its best .
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the marksman isn't exactly a bad film . if it was , i might have enjoyed it a lot more . it is merely a tired , under-inflated , woefully cliched and unadventurous one .
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" penguin bloom " is pretty much a missed opportunity .
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a somewhat unsatisfying work that seems to contain about four bad ideas and elements for every good one and whose undeniable virtues cannot quite rescue the rest of it .
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the film falls short of being a complete story , as it leaves much to be desired from these interesting characters .
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prince-bythewood invests the heroes' solitude with keen melodramatic pathos , but it's merely a grace note to a sluggishly paced plot , thinly imagined characters , and rote shoot-outs .
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the story is just a nightmare of terrible decisions . wonder woman 1984 doesn't deserve comparisons to the dark knight; it deserves to be spoken of in the same breath as spider-man 3
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these many problematic messages dampened my enjoyment of the movie . and that's before we dig into a plot that has too much going on to actually tell a satisfying story .
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a bloated , muddled endurance test . as diana is no longer an innocent to the ways of the world , gadot has less of a charm offensive at her disposal and , ironically , the film only perks up whenever chris pine shares her scenes
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visually stunning but often tedious although it may well become a cult classic . some will love it , some will hate it .
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notturno builds some empathy , but only of a vague , fleeting variety . that might be enough for winning cinematic awards and pleasing the festival circuit . but
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no one was happier than me to see chris pine back from the dead as steve trevor , but a world-weary wonder woman is , to use an '80s term , kind of a bummer . especially for two and a half hours .
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christopher nolan's latest mindbender contains his trademark elaborate set pieces but lacks a story that makes a lick of sense .
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ww84 manages a decent take-off but it never scales the dizzying heights of the earlier film .
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totally hokey , with a 1970s saturday morning vibe; a serviceable entertainment for the wee crowd , but likely a one-off watch .
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theron prides herself in having made herself a fixture of the action genre , however , she's become a parody of herself , her tough-gal posture a bit too obvious , her pithy quips a bit too tired and her action sequences a bit too choreographed .
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kind of a mess , and no fun whatsoever .
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if you have infinite time , it might do .
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i'm not sure who's more tired , liam neeson playing another old war vet/cop/special-ops guy getting it up to beat the snot out of a bunch of rowdy upstarts or me , having to sit through another round of the same gummy mulch .
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tenet addresses some important themes , such as the dangers of technology concentrating world-shattering powers in the hands of unaccountable individuals , but it treats the world as an abstraction of physics , not as a real place where real people live .
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while locked down may contain a star-studded cast , it isn't enough to save the film
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we never really get to know any of these characters aside from their villainy and/or victimhood . they're paper fish in a cardboard barrel .
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despite some extremely powerful scenes of suffering and a moving performance from tahar rahimthe film gets lost inunnecessary sidebars and a white-savior narrative .
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the good news about the film is that the performances by wright and bichir are strong and engaging and the cinematography by bobby bukowski is appropriately breathtaking . the bad news is that i simply never bought any of it for a single moment .
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like the ghostland itself , there's just a lot more nothing than i expected .
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this frou-frou satire on classism is beautiful to look at - extraordinary costumes , manor homes and gardens , but as a pastry , i'd say it was pretty , bright , colourful , looks delicious but in fact , is a thin flavourless macaron that someone forgot to fill .
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what kind of movies will the pandemic inspire ? how will the drama of covid-19 be told ? a harbinger has arrived , but it doesn't amount to much .
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tenet is clearly attempting some kind of emotional payoff that remains out of reach . by the end , the idea of swimming against the current feels like a metaphor for the film itself .
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penguin bloom spends most of its runtime focusing on the ways in which naomi watts' character's accident renders her less than .
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( gadot's ) even better this go-round in the action scenes , and when called upon to stretch dramatically , she does her best screen work to date but it's not quite enough to make the picture work .
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it is a film that works with such premeditated efficiency that it ends up becoming a fiction that shows the mechanization with which it was made .
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there is an over-exposed and gritty feel to john lee hancock's the little thingsthat makes it feel both intimate and hollow .
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the story isn't as exciting as some other archaeology adventures--there are no ghosts or demons or mummies--but if you dig past the layers of slow , sleepily paced melodrama , you might uncover a few gems along the way .
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the map of tiny perfect things is a bit too bland to stand out in the crowd , and ironically , won't be able to stand the test of time .
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nic cage fighting demonic animatronics sounds like a blast on paper , but willy's wonderland mostly settles for the bare minimum with its inventive premise .
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wonder woman 1984 suggests director patty jenkins and her star ( and now producer ) gal gadot have extracted all the wrong lessons from the success of the previous film .
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the best i can say about land is it sure is pretty .
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wonder woman 1984 is an oddly careless disappointment that needed pruning and more refinement .
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despite the fact that the documentary is not without interest , it ends up becoming tired and repetitive , finding it difficult to go deeper without losing its viewers with ideas of greater density .
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a tribute to the pulpy adventure movies of the 1940s by way of the twilight zone .
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the 80s setting is fun , the score is great and gal gadot once again rocks . that said , the story is disappointing and the villains leave much to be desired . as huge fan of the first film , this sequel is a letdown .
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mr . neill struggles with the film's laggardly pacing -- not for long , since he's a canny veteran with a trusty bag of tricks , but long enough to remind you that stars are as vulnerable to clumsy direction as anyone else .
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it introduces several great concepts , themes and plots , but soul doesn't give any of them the proper attention to grow .
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so much less than the sum of its considerable parts .
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the little things is pointless , preposterous , and seemingly endless . it is far from washington's best work , and unworthy of his talented costars . i couldn't wait for it to be over .
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love your palindromes ? the film is a dud .
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the big-budget wonder woman sequel is an ugly , tedious , bloated , badly cgi-ed mess and a wretchedly directed film .
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it doesn't take long before the reasons pile up in regards to loathing the characters of french exit
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a quick methadone hit for anyone still experiencing merchant-ivory withdrawal symptoms .
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'eight for silver' bites into a divergent werewolf concept that successfully adapts gorgeous period architectures , but slumps into generics ( and shoddy digital effects ) as the overlong movie well overstays its welcome .
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it is good trash striving for something more respectable , and does not realize good trash can also have something to say .
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moretz emotes her way through shadow in the cloud with an overemphasis that feels phony almost immediately , as if sensing that she has to work overtime to sell the movie's mashed-up twists .
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i do like the chemistry between wonder woman and steve and i do like gal gadot as wonder woman . but the storyline was absolute rubbish .
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one of those documentaries that has a great subject , but doesn't really know what to do with it .
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most of the jokes are more corny than clever , and zoe's shift from clueless future mother to hateful jerk grows thin by the halfway point .
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a meandering slog that evokes little other than pity for its title hero . diana deserves better than this too-often joyless mess of a narrative .
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wiig and mumolo work so easily and smoothly together , you feel like an ingrate for not enjoying their efforts more in these script circumstances ( especially since they wrote it ) .
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the material is too unexciting and the performances too lackluster to deliver much more than a stale comic book fantasy .
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lord is a pale imitation of someone like lex luthor . one could almost call him trumpian , except lord has the rudiments of a conscience and actually cares about his child .
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" locked down " should have just stayed terminated in the lab , instead of rushing out like a vaccine of entertainment that cured absolutely no one of their doldrums .
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netflix could use a knockout actioner . sadly , the old guard isn't it .
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wonder woman 1984 isn't bad , it just falls well below the heights reached by the prior installment , losing some of its heart along the way , in service oof a very silly story .
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" the little things " occasionally delivers the pleasures of a deep , dark noir , but it's mostly just a shadow of other films .
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even with spider-man tom holland and new batman robert pattinson in the leads , this violent tale of backwoods sin and corruption suffers from a severe case of too-muchness .
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meaningful representation consists of more than simply casting women and people of color .
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despite anne hathaway and chiwetel ejiofor having a good time , the plot unravels too much at the end to the point of ridiculousness .
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tenet is all action all the time , sacrificing heart and clarity for spectacle .
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cryptozoo is for the cryptid-loving stoners out there that want to get lost in a colorful world of chaos . all of the pieces are there to create an animation staple , but unfortunately doesn't stick the landing .
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gadot tries her best . alas , she's been roped into a leaden , unimaginative series of cliches . nothing feels fresh .
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ascher proudly entertains the half-baked musings of the same sorts of dudes who worship elon musk tweets . breathtakingly bad .
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to its credit , the film never jumps to glib conclusions about who sam is or might become . nor can i doubt that its heart is in the right place , even if there's a degree of hokey sentimentality in the premise .
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won't erase memories of 'dante's peak' or 'volcano , ' and even they weren't very good .
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far too remote for its burningly immediate subject matter .
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a disappointingly lifeless take on immortal mayhem . better than highlander 3 , but not by much .
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tahar rahim's performance is sorely underserved by the production it's bound to .
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it's easy to get ahead of the story in bliss , and its final stretch has a comedy-sketch capriciousness
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land is positioned as an exploration of grief and survivor's guilt - a crowded celluloid space - but the lack of distinctive figures renders wright's film picturesque but fallow .
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tenet is a bit like the myth whereby nasa spent millions of dollars on a pen that could work in zero gravity when the soviets just used a pencil . nolan should re-learn how to use a pencil .
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ultimately , the little things meanders a bit too much with stakeouts and the drudgery of police work before getting to the meat of its psychological core , which offers a provocative payoff , if not perhaps one good enough to fully justify the journey .
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eight for silver's werewolf curse is unparalleled in the subgenre but falls short is in how it utilizes that curse to build effective scares .
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nicely balances the perspectives of the two families without drawing clear-cut heroes and villains , but much of the authenticity becomes muddled by convoluted plotting and western cliches .
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its shows such promise , that its slow unraveling feels less like a disappointment than a betrayal .
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bliss is a movie whose ambitions outstripped its execution . mike cahill is a legitimate talent , the kind of auteur of whom genre filmmaking could use more , but his eyes were bigger than his stomach on this one .
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