Category Archives: Entropy

Birth of a Nation a pompous, myopic waste of film

Birth of a Nation fails to effectively tell its story on several fundamental levels. It is an inept execution of a concept that was weak to begin with. The Birth of a Nation is a dramatic retelling of the Nat Turner (Nate Parker, who also … Continue reading →

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Blunt shines, Girl on the Train falters

The Girl on the Train is good. It comes recommended. But I left it thinking about how much better it could have been. The film follows Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt), who sketches during her daily train commute to New York City. Over … Continue reading →

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Tim, what are you doing?

The buzz about Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is that it falls apart in the second half, and that’s absolutely not true. It falls apart well before then. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is about Jake Portman (Asa Butterfield), a muggle … Continue reading →

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Deepwater Horizon brings harrowing blowout to vivid life

Deepwater Horizon is a triumph of traditional, fundamentally sound storytelling. It’s proof of the power of film to make any subject matter gripping. The movie revisits the April 2010 disaster aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling unit that claimed 11 lives … Continue reading →

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Snowden is an actual good movie

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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