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Prisoners: Brute Farce
By M.C. Myers / May 1, 2023
Prisoners uses competent visuals and juggernaut acting to hide behind an impression of mysteriousness that its screenplay never fully justifies.
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By M.C. Myers / April 21, 2023
Season 3 of The Mandalorian continues with high-concept stories stalled by low-effort screenplays.
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By M.C. Myers / April 18, 2023
Malignant suffers through genre tropes to get to its meaty creativity. The question isn't whether it has any but whether it's worth the wait.
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By M.C. Myers / April 4, 2023
Speed Racer unconventionally adapted the comic book formula to a unique emotional high that now stands out in a crowded genre.
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By M.C. Myers / March 16, 2023
The Mandalorian slides into its third premiere without a strong suggestion that this will be more than a content extension for a profitable series.
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Locating Realism in The Revenant
By M.C. Myers / May 11, 2022
The Revenant is a powerful statement on cinematic realism affected but not marred by its real toil. It's old cinema made epic again.
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Prisoners uses competent visuals and juggernaut acting to hide behind an impression of mysteriousness that its screenplay never fully justifies.
M.C. Myers
Season 3 of The Mandalorian continues with high-concept stories stalled by low-effort screenplays.
M.C. Myers
Malignant suffers through genre tropes to get to its meaty creativity. The question isn't whether it has any but whether it's worth the wait.
M.C. Myers
Speed Racer unconventionally adapted the comic book formula to a unique emotional high that now stands out in a crowded genre.
M.C. Myers
The Mandalorian slides into its third premiere without a strong suggestion that this will be more than a content extension for a profitable series.
M.C. Myers
M. Night Shyamalan continues his winning streak with a well-acted high-concept thriller about the end-times. It's more smoke than fire though.
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Whannell drenches the action of his remake in expository relevance to cover for a lack of basic thriller rationale in the screenplay.
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The Tree of Life is an all-encompassing memory of a tiny life. It can't help but stand in for all of us.
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Avatar: The Way of Water is a monument to James Cameron's business model but stutters on every other artistic or dramatic criterion imaginable.
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio shimmers with excited physical energy but never coordinates its new story ideas with its old moral responsibilities.
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The Pale Blue Eye has the cast of a masterpiece and the script of a write-off. It's inoffensive afternoon viewing, but Poe would have his name removed from it.
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The 1951 version of Scrooge effortlessly recreates its candleglow world. This classic story has never been better.