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Stooges sling sillies in solid ‘Stuber’
8/10 Stuber is so heavily composed of tropes that it would be barley intelligible outside the context of its genre, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In this case, the movie needles its strict buddy comedy confines while also … Continue reading
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Tagged #mcu, buddy comedy, Dave Bautista, Iko Uwais, Karen Gillan, Kumail Nanjiani, Los Angeles, Stuber
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The crippling ennui of ‘Men in Black: International’
1/10 In 2016, Sony rebooted Ghostbusters, a beloved comedy franchise that’s actually just one good movie and a bunch of other media that everyone forgot about. It lost $70 million. Now it’s three years later, and Sony has rebooted Men in Black, a beloved … Continue reading
‘The Big Sick’ is snore-inducing, self-obsessed garbage
1/10 The Big Sick sits at 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes after earning an audience favorite award at March’s South by Southwest and the second-largest studio purchase — $12 million — at January’s Sundance Film Festival. It is actively, aggressively … Continue reading
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Tagged #birdman, #holly hunter, #sundance, Amazon Studios, bad, Black Swan, Kumail Nanjiani, Ray Romano, The Big Sick, Zoe Kazan
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