Excerpt: Results not only flexes its dramatic muscles, but also shows us the strength of its most powerful muscle: its whimsical, beating heart. The undeniable chemistry between Smulders and Pearce is only elevated by the curious magnetism that Corrigan provides.
RATING: ★★★★★★★ (7/10 stars)
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Excerpt: San Andreas is a blue ruin of borrowed elements that even The Rock was unable to save. To say this film was not ground-breaking is an understatement because even as an escapist treat, this film has no traction. Any friction or tension you feel from the film is less the effect of the story and the characters, and more than likely from the shifting of the tectonic plates.
RATING: ★★★★ (4/10 stars)
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Excerpt: Poltergeist has too many skeletons in the closet, but unfortunately none of them add up to a particularly scary film. Despite the great talent and even greater source material, this film came off as a shallow phantom of its former self. Sometimes the ghosts of the past are too much to live up to in the present. With how unambitious this corpse of a film is, it would have been better if it had remained buried.
RATING: ★★★ (3/10 stars)
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Excerpt: Like many of Disney’s older rides (a la It’s A Small World), Tomorrowland is full of visual pleasures and sweet sounding platitudes, but ultimately you know it’s an innocuous attraction. Usually halfway through the ride you find yourself bored and ready to get off. You can’t. You’re trapped with nowhere to escape to and you are forced to endure this ride, whose uplifting message has just been soured by your inescapable experience on the ride. The only way to save yourself is to not get on it to begin with. Welcome to Tomorrowland.
RATING: ★★★★★ (5/10 stars)
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Excerpt: The YouTube serial-based film Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story has come out for a limited theatrical release, but after seeing the film, its life might be much more limited than anticipated. As a horror film, it’s very run of the mill relying on jump scares rather than building up the suspense like its predecessor did so well. Like the film, any attempt at making this into a long-running horror franchise may have died with the characters.
RATING: ★★★★(4/10 stars)
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Excerpt: Like our underdogs in the film, George Miller finally found his Promised Land with Mad Max: Fury Road, the epitome and inevitable culmination of the previous trilogy. This is the kind of film that the Fast & Furious franchise wishes it could one day become. As it stands, every car-based film will eat Fury Road‘s dust because none can hope to achieve this same level of thoughtful, bombastic frenzy that this film inspires. Every actor and cog in this well-oiled engine propels it further and further, making it an unstoppable, unapologetic juggernaut waiting to steamroll over you and drag you along for the ride.
RATING: ★★★★★★★★★(9/10 stars)
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Excerpt: Good Kill is an engaging and impressively persuasive film dealing with the (dystopian) future of warfare. The approach has a slight banality to it from having been previously bombarded with the same messages and cautionary tales in previous films about war. Thanks to great performances from Hawke, Jones and Kravitz, the messages in this film prove to be worth repeating.
RATING: ★★★★★★(6/10 stars)
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Excerpt: Slow West reminds us that nothing is as simple as black and white. Sometimes things are sepia-toned, but more often they are vibrantly colored, regardless of whether it’s something that will bring you joy or inevitably cause your death. First timer John Maclean shows us he can weave and tell a story like he’s been doing it for years. Slow West is not lethargic, but deliberately paced around the apologue it is constructing and deconstructing.
RATING: ★★★★★★★★★(9/10 stars)
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Excerpt: I’ve been burned too many times before by Shyamalan stories that keep you guessing until the end, only to reveal a dissatisfying turn of events. Wayward Pines shrouds itself in a creepy curiosity that only slightly lingers even after the episode is over. There are elements that seem supernatural or science fiction since it appears to be playing with time and space. The real question is it intriguing enough to play with your time? We won’t know for sure until at least episode two, possibly three. If it hasn’t completely engulfed you in enigma, then you should probably stop before this because another wooded let-down like The Village.
RATING: ★★★★★(5/10 stars)
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Excerpt: In the dreary darkness of Maggie, we see a warming, tender light in the story of a father and daughter living in the dark days after a viral outbreak. The film’s pace may prove too slow for fans of the violent, dismembering, undead hordes, but the film is a great addition to the overall zombie canon. Schwarzenegger’s endearing and powerful performance will give you a change of heart on not only this film, but also when considering Schwarzenegger’s artistic range. The film may all have to do about dying and coping with death, but from it, I can see refreshing new life being breathed into Schwarzenegger’s career. He famously said he’d be back, but I didn’t believe him until now.
RATING: ★★★★★★(6/10 stars)
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