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Clint Eastwood’s ‘Mule’ feels amateurish
1/10 After 37 movies in the director’s chair, not including ones he only produced or starred in, 88-year-old Clint Eastwood remains a cultural icon who commands the respect of his peers and viewership, but with every new movie he directs, … Continue reading
‘Star is Born’ not great, will probably win best picture
6/10 A Star is Born is the kind of predictable, pretentious Oscarbate that I want to despise with every fiber of my being, but I can not. Everything about this movie tells me I should hate it, but it is … Continue reading
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Tagged #american horror story, #lady gaga, #oscarbate, A Star is Born, bradley cooper, Carrottop, Sam Elliott, The Hunting Ground
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‘Vol. 2’ not as good as first, but with new and different merits
7/10 In August 2014, the first Guardians of the Galaxy burst into theaters as a wildly different offering from the MCU. From the formula that was finally beginning to grow stale — and kept right on doing so with its next … Continue reading
Todd Phillips wanted to make a true crime movie, but all he could manage was Hangover 4
Steven James @StevenLeeJames War Dogs, the latest from writer/director Todd Phillips, tries to be a black comedy that makes the audience emotional, a crime movie, an entertaining comedy that puts exaggerated characters into grounded situations, a political satire and an … Continue reading
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Tagged #jonah Hill, #miles teller, #wardogs, bradley cooper, Hangover, Hangover 4, Hangover Part II, Hangover Part III, Scarface, The Wolf of Wall Street, Todd Phillips, War Dogs, War Dogs is a less fun Wolf of Wall Street knockoff, War Dogs is a sad version of Scarface, Why is Bradley Cooper in this
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Joy sunk by baffling editing
Editing in movies is a defensive job — if it’s done well, you don’t notice, but if you do notice, it’s because something went wrong, and something went very badly wrong with Joy. The movie is a biopic — it’s not … Continue reading
