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Luke Parker

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Luke Parker is an award-winning film critic and columnist based in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area.

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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) 92% A- “Sometimes, an MCU film, like Shang-Chi, is released that combines its louder, blockbuster values with a deeply human center, a magnificent, empathetic spark that reminds worn naysayers (admittedly like myself) what this unmatched series is capable of.” – The Star Democrat (MD) Sep 27, 2021 Full Review Malignant (2021) 77% D- “Unfortunately, spending too much time creating atmosphere and not enough establishing details or personality, Wan takes his whacky, pulp premise and smooshes it into something that's simultaneously over-produced and under-cooked.” – The Star Democrat (MD) Sep 27, 2021 Full Review Candyman (2021) 84% C “The result is a mixed bag. Without the background, without Helen's investigation and her introduction to this world, this "Candyman" movie falls more in line with the meet-and-slash routine of other horror reboots.” – The Star Democrat (MD) Sep 27, 2021 Full Review The Night House (2020) 87% 4/5 “Visually, audibly, and thematically, The Night House is an assaulting film, but because it works best in the gray areas between certainty and hysteria, the filling of the void, as it were, is a bit of a letdown.” – VoiceBoxOffice Sep 27, 2021 Full Review Reminiscence (2021) 37% D+ “The detours can be frustrating, but the branches are often interesting to venture across, as is the experience of watching a major motion picture willing to reach as far down a rabbit hole as "Reminiscence" does.” – The Star Democrat (MD) Sep 27, 2021 Full Review Jungle Cruise (2021) 62% 3.5/5 “An unapologetic archeological swashbuckler...[and] a movie that bites off perhaps a bit more than it can chew.” – VoiceBoxOffice Sep 27, 2021 Full Review The Suicide Squad (2021) 90% B- “If there's only one true, declarative statement to be made about James Gunn's "The Suicide Squad," it would be that the film is entirely and undoubtedly a product of trust.” – VoiceBoxOffice Sep 27, 2021 Full Review Free Guy (2021) 80% 3/5 “Free Guy is not the movie it thinks it is. It is not a champion for originality. In fact, tag-teaming on punchlines with two of Hollywood's biggest franchises, it's hard to see it as nothing more than a corporate red herring in that regard.” – VoiceBoxOffice Sep 27, 2021 Full Review The Green Knight (2021) 89% A- “The Green Knight is far from the most faithful adaptation ever put to screen - in fact, it may be up there with Monty Python in terms of Arthurian accuracy - but its deviations and amendments are always far from uninteresting.” – VoiceBoxOffice Sep 27, 2021 Full Review Old (2021) 50% D- “Shyamalan has garnered a reputation for twists and turns that has regularly come off onscreen as a professional burden rather than an artistic choice - a sick, unfortunate game of catch up by a director once heralded as the next filmic pioneer.” – The Star Democrat (MD) Sep 27, 2021 Full Review Val (2021) 93% 3.5/5 “Val is an affectionate film, and even more, a self-affectionate film. It does just as much obscuring and bending as it does revealing.” – VoiceBoxOffice Sep 27, 2021 Full Review Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) 25% D+ “Should the merits of their careers be eventually judged in some strange, pop-cultural category by their collaboration with the Looney Tunes, the odds are leaning very heavily in Air Jordan's favor.” – The Star Democrat (MD) Aug 4, 2021 Full Review Black Widow (2021) 79% C “Romanoff's positioning against a flagrant misogynist, combined again with the delayed timing of her long-awaited solo film, may feel dangerously close to tokenism.” – The Star Democrat (MD) Aug 4, 2021 Full Review Pig (2021) 97% 4/5 “Whereas Cage's outrageous tendencies generally draw an overshadowing effect, in "Pig," an odd little film set in the surprisingly sardonic world of culinary Portland, they're an unexpected anchor.” – VoiceBoxOffice Aug 4, 2021 Full Review Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) 99% 5/5 “Questlove's first film is exactly what you'd hope it'd be: a vibrant fusion between song and history. If you came for the music, you'll be surprised to find yourself staying for the knowledge. And certainly vice versa.” – VoiceBoxOffice Aug 4, 2021 Full Review F9 The Fast Saga (2021) 59% 3/5 “F9 is a stupendously stupid movie. Total nonsense. Bombastic and, forgive the pun, ludicrous. But I'd be lying if I didn't say I had a lot of fun watching it. I now support multi-million-dollar goofball productions.” – VoiceBoxOffice Aug 4, 2021 Full Review Zola (2020) 88% C- “The result is an off-kilter and stylish production - which is particularly effervescent when promoting Bravo's visual flair - but, ultimately, one with a story as abrupt as a character limit.” – The Star Democrat (MD) Aug 4, 2021 Full Review Luca (2021) 91% 3.5/5 “The movie made me miss my own summertime friendships, with their imperfections and their tenderness, but I couldn't help but feel that the movie, at least by comparison to other Pixar projects, wasn't very ambitious.” – VoiceBoxOffice Aug 4, 2021 Full Review The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) 25% 1.5/5 “As the sequel to a movie that probably never deserved one, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard is about as vulgar and vulgarly bloated and uninspired as you'd expect. And as it turns out, three truly is a crowd. [published June 28]” – VoiceBoxOffice Aug 4, 2021 Full Review In the Heights (2021) 94% 3.5/5 “In The Heights puts the pop back in popcorn, as in, "go to the theater, eat some popcorn, and watch this movie."” – VoiceBoxOffice Jun 17, 2021 Full Review Spirit Untamed (2021) 48% 1.5/5 “This is the kind of movie I hope my kid never finds on DVD, and the DVD that may have to go "missing" after one too many viewings.” – VoiceBoxOffice Jun 7, 2021 Full Review Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) 95% 5/5 “If there was ever a film that demonstrated the persistence of art, it's this one.” – VoiceBoxOffice Jun 7, 2021 Full Review The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) 56% 3/5 “The third time is not the charm for The Conjuring franchise, though to be honest, I don't know what a charm superseding those first two movies would even look like.” – VoiceBoxOffice Jun 7, 2021 Full Review A Quiet Place Part II (2021) 91% 3.5/5 “Going from world building to world exploring, Part II experiments less with genre to bring about a noticeably different experience - one with a lot more sound and a lot less story...[but] there's a good apocalypse story here.” – VoiceBoxOffice Jun 2, 2021 Full Review Cruella (2021) 75% 4/5 “As someone who generally gets too angry about resurrected characters and origin stories, I found Cruella surprisingly energetic and happily twisted.” – VoiceBoxOffice Jun 2, 2021 Full Review
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