Once The Lone Ranger’s finale finally gets going, it makes the entire endeavor worth the price of admission.
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Movie Review: ‘Monsters University’
The short film that preceded Monsters University, The Blue Umbrella, is a beautiful work of visual poetry, using music and rhythm to progress the narrative, with absolutely no dialogue whatsoever. It’s a story about a blue umbrella that develops an attraction to a red umbrella, which happens to be the …
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This should make the day of most Eastwood fans.
Read More »LA Film Fest: ‘The Spectacular Now’
I really didn't want to like The Spectacular Now, but, I did.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Heat’
While Feig may not have the comedic heavyweight writing of Kristen Wiig behind the screenplay, stars Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock make sure The Heat never fizzles.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘White House Down’
Emmerich knows how to blow stuff up spectacularly with the best of them. And that’s what we came to see right?
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Stories We Tell’
Only art can move a person in a way that’s impossible to put into words without falling short.
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Monsters University may not be the perfect Pixar film, but it is hilarious from beginning to end.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Kings of Summer’
A coming-of-age film that plays like Stand by Me, reimagined by Wes Anderson. OK, maybe it’s not quite that quirky.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Man of Steel’
The drama at the beginning is compelling, by the end there’s just too damn much going on, and it becomes truly mind-numbing.
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