The Age of Adaline Review
2.5 stars out of 5: Proustian mushIt begins with a shot of the Earth from space, and omniscient narration. (The voice of Hugh Ross, narrator of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert...
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1.5 stars out of 5: History written by the winners.First-time director Russell Crowe has stepped in it, probably without meaning to. But it's happening all the same. His film, entirely devoted to an...
View ArticleLittle Boy Review
2.5 stars out of 5: A little much.The past few years have seen a marked rise in the number of Christian-themed films getting wide theatrical distribution, but to call it a "new wave" of faith-based...
View ArticleThe Avengers: Age of Ultron Review
3.5 stars out of 5: Much Avenge About More ThingsThey're building a giant machine now, a machine made of movies. To participate in the machine's agenda of taking your money, it will not help to begin...
View ArticleHot Pursuit Review
1.0 stars out of 5: Pursue a ticket to a different movie.Allow me to mangle Tolstoy for a minute, and say that each good comedy is good in its own way, but that all bad comedies are alike. There's...
View ArticleThe D Train Review
1.0 stars out of 5: Stay home.Although there is at least one earlier, less sexual, usage of the slang term "the d-train," referring to having a generalized bad experience, lately the expression has...
View ArticlePitch Perfect 2 Review
2.5 stars out of 5: Songs about butts.Pitch Perfect 2 begins with a crazy, performance-based, wardrobe malfunction, one that, in the film's words, exposes the "down under" region of one of the a...
View ArticleMad Max: Fury Road Review
5.0 stars out of 5: Death to the patriarchy."Who killed the world?" yells a minor character in Mad Max: Fury Road. This outburst comes after an earlier moment where camera pauses on the question...
View ArticleTomorrowland Review
2.5 stars out of 5: You can fly. Eventually.In your initial visit to Tomorrowland, you're not really there at all. That's what scientifically-named Casey Newton (The Longest Ride's Britt Robertson)...
View ArticlePoltergeist Review
0.5 stars out of 5: BOO-RINGIt's hard out here for a ghost. Always having to think up new ways to scare suburban people in movies. You make the kids' toys come alive and play creepy music, and all the...
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