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Tim Burton’s ‘Dumbo’ nobody’s baby

3/10 When a movie is advertised as “from the imagination of Tim Burton,” you tend to go into it expecting a real blue-blooded Tim Burton passion project, one that he really took ownership of and fought hard to get the … 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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Entropy on Labor Day — Davids rule the summer, Goliaths crash and burn

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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Through the Looking Glass a dull artistic effort but an appalling commercial one

Six years ago, Alice in Wonderland unexpectedly took the global box office by storm. Now, we have Alice Through the Looking Glass, which is the exact same movie. After a bunch of boring stuff happens in the real world, Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) returns … Continue reading

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