“Extraction 2” feels more like extortion than a rescue mission.
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“Elemental” is a beautiful love story with immigrant narrative undertones, that is bound to make you cry and want to hug your parents.
“The Flash” is a lot of fun, and does do some things right that help keep it from being a total disaster. Though impossible to dismiss Miller at its center, it is still possible to enjoy “The Flash” on the surface level platter that it’s served on.
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“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” isn’t quite as refreshing as “Bumblebee,” but also not as insulting as “The Last Knight” and falls almost precisely in the middle of the two films where it canonically takes place.
With “The Flash,” Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Comics managed to deliver an enjoyable entry into their much-maligned canon. To…
“Across the Spider-Verse” sets a new precedent for what animation can do. It is the pinnacle of modern technical mastery.
“The Boogeyman” is a middling horror film that struggles to balance the effective atmospheric haunts with muddled horror cliches, leaving it unable to mask its obvious trauma allegories and maintain consistent horror intrigue that feels on the cusp of delivering but falls short.
“Wrath of Becky” injects a healthy dose of humor amidst its gruesome slaughter-fest, and though it struggles at times to sustain its simplicity, it has enough to be an entertaining follow up and intrigue in the sequel it wants to make next.
You Hurt My Feelings” may be the funniest, smartest film of the year so far, and Holofcener’s terrific script paired with her patient direction helps solidify this kind of high praise.
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