Category Archives: Entropy

‘Napoleon’ biopic is absolutely unhinged

Napoleon is a fat, slobbering pig of a movie that commands its 158 minutes like the emperor-general himself, taking what it wants when it wants simply because it was there. Absolutely unhinged. Bravo! That biography you barely remember from ninth … Continue reading

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‘Holdovers’ is a beautiful window into an uninteresting past

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All is true of ‘Saltburn,’ a modern Gothic class-war nightmare

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Lionsgate packages ‘Hunger Games’ for the ‘Fantastic Beasts’ market, because it that’s been going so well

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a horrendous title. It’s about three times as long as it should be, painful to say and somehow even more embarrassing than a placeholder like “Untitled Hunger Games Prequel” might … Continue reading

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Watching, or not, as ‘Marvels’ fail

For the past several years as Disney pivoted toward a streaming-first business model, the company line has been that instead of movies about individual heroes leading into a bigger crossover movie, they’ll have solo TV shows, and every movie will … Continue reading

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