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Snowden is an actual good movie

Posted on September 19, 2016 by reelentropy

Snowden is a bit of a curve ball. The beginning is just a bit better than awful, but the end is just a bit worse than amazing. The film details the past 10 years in the life of CIA whistleblower Edward … Continue reading →

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Blair Witch replaces original excitement with convergent blandness

Posted on September 16, 2016 by reelentropy

Rhiannon Saegert @missmusetta Blair Witch takes all the style of The Blair Witch Project and leaves behind all of the substance, resulting in a film just as shaky as the cameras it was shot on. The film is a direct … Continue reading →

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Sully kicks Oscarbate season off to awful, tacky start

Posted on September 9, 2016 by reelentropy

In January 2009, Chesley Sullenberger successfully ditched a commercial airliner in the Hudson River, averting what would have been a massive plane wreck. Now, Clint Eastwood has made things right by making a biopic about him that is just as big … Continue reading →

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Entropy on Labor Day — Davids rule the summer, Goliaths crash and burn

Posted on September 7, 2016 by reelentropy

Labor Day weekend 2016 was bad. If you discount last summer’s holiday weekend that saw War Room take the weekend crown, you have to go all the way back to 2005 to find a Labor Day weekend that did worse than this … Continue reading →

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Light Between Oceans delivers on promising cast, tough to enjoy anyway

Posted on September 2, 2016 by reelentropy

I’ve never seen a movie that started this slow get this much slower. Based on M.L. Stedman’s 2012 novel, The Light Between Oceans follows Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) as he returns home to Australia from World War I. Looking to get away … Continue reading →

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