Brie Larson
What utter joy The Marvels brings to the Marvel Cinematic Universe! For a blithe 105 minutes, we get all the requisite action and hilarity we’ve come to know and love from the best of the MCU, but we also get a playfulness that escaped even the most lighthearted of the 32 films preceding it. It’s […]
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How do you know too much is finally enough? You make and release Fast X. The series excess – which started with the bombastic finale of the franchise-reviving Fast Five – has finally become more of a hindrance than an attraction. In the hands of journeyman director Louis Leterrier, this excess has become a dulled […]
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This review started at a 2.5-star rating, but I’ll let you in on a little secret: the more I think about and analyze the movie, the more I like about it. At first, I thought there are major issues keeping this film from being absolutely great, but some of those issues are also part of […]
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There’s some great writing in the new Judd Apatow film “Trainwreck” courtesy of Amy Schumer, who also plays the promiscuous, over-imbibing gal to which the title refers, but there’s also a lot of what I can only describe as “run-on” comedy — that is, when a scene just doesn’t know when to quit. This is […]
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