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3.5/5
Paper Towns (2015) Jim Slotek For all the drama and comedy, nothing much really happens in it - other than the palpable maturation of nearly every character in less than two hours.
Posted Jul 23, 2015
3/5
Southpaw (2015) Liz Braun Despite brilliant fight scenes and impressive performances, Southpaw is brought down by ham-handed storytelling.
Posted Jul 23, 2015
3/5
Pixels (2015) Bruce Kirkland Pixels requires a lot of disbelief, but it is a blast to behold and a good way to see Sandler do something at a higher level.
Posted Jul 22, 2015
X-Men (2000) Louis B. Hobson
Posted Jul 15, 2015
3.5/5
Ant-Man (2015) Steve Tilley Ant-Man is an entertaining blend of a superhero origin story and a caper film, the funniest and most grounded Marvel movie to date.
Posted Jul 15, 2015
2.5/5
Minions (2015) Steve Tilley
Posted Jul 09, 2015
2/5
Terminator Genisys (2015) Bruce Kirkland Terminator Genisys does not just reboot the famous franchise, it puts the boots to all the earlier films, their iconic characters and any fans who expected T5 to show more respect for the origins of James Cameron's man vs. machine saga.
Posted Jun 30, 2015
2.5/5
Magic Mike XXL (2015) Bruce Kirkland A sloppy and often silly road movie that takes most of the same characters we met in 2012 and gives them a last hurrah as macho male entertainers.
Posted Jun 29, 2015
3/5
Ted 2 (2015) Jim Slotek It gave me at least eight good laughs - mostly from set pieces that had nothing to do with the story. Your mileage may vary.
Posted Jun 25, 2015
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Louis B. Hobson Time has done little to diminish the power of E.T.'s signature moments.
Posted Jun 19, 2015
4.5/5
Inside Out (2015) Bruce Kirkland A near-perfect balance of humour, pathos, adventure and poignant emotion. That makes it great entertainment for children and adults. The film is sophisticated, intelligent and heartfelt -- plus a ton of fun, too.
Posted Jun 18, 2015
2/5
Jurassic World (2015) Bruce Kirkland Compared to Steven Spielberg's much-loved original, this fourth instalment in the franchise is a cruel joke.
Posted Jun 11, 2015
1.5/5
Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) Bruce Kirkland What a disappointment this is. Especially coming after Chapters 1 and 2, which both delivered the frights with a slow burn mixed with ingenuity and style.
Posted Jun 04, 2015
4.5/5
Entourage (2015) Bruce Kirkland
Posted Jun 02, 2015
2/5
Poltergeist (2015) Liz Braun The audience isn't invested in the characters or their fate. Bit of a problem.
Posted May 22, 2015
4/5
Tomorrowland (2015) Bruce Kirkland Tomorrowland may be structurally flawed, but it is also wonderfully imaginative, visually arresting and completely daring. That makes it a winner for audiences willing to submit to the awkward flow of the narrative.
Posted May 21, 2015
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015) Bruce Kirkland
Posted Apr 17, 2015
4.5/5
Furious 7 (2015) Bruce Kirkland Loud, long and laughably over-the-top, Furious 7 is one of the best pure action movies ever made.
Posted Apr 02, 2015
2.5/5
Get Hard (2015) Steve Tilley
Posted Mar 26, 2015
1.5/5
Unfinished Business (2015) Bruce Kirkland
Posted Mar 06, 2015
3/5
Chappie (2015) Liz Braun An uneasy mix of action and philosophy, with simplistic notions of good and evil and mother love proving to be a distraction from the main event.
Posted Mar 05, 2015
Gladiator (2000) Randall King By emphasizing big battles and spilled blood, Scott banks on the hope the movie audience will be no more discerning than the Colosseum's screaming mob.
Posted Feb 22, 2015
1/5
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) Bruce Kirkland Fifty Shades of Grey only has one shade: tedious self-pity. The other 49 shades promised in the title are missing from the movie version of the infamous novel.
Posted Feb 12, 2015
2/5
The Boy Next Door (2015) Liz Braun
Posted Jan 22, 2015
1.5/5
Taken 3 (2014) Bruce Kirkland
Posted Jan 09, 2015
4.5/5
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Bruce Kirkland Wes Anderson's latest opus, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is bloody bonkers and simply splendid.
Posted Jan 02, 2015
3.5/5
The Gambler (2014) Bruce Kirkland
Posted Dec 23, 2014
3/5
The Interview (2014) Bruce Kirkland It may be profane and sloppy and silly and insulting to the North Koreans, but The Interview is a guilty pleasure.
Posted Dec 18, 2014
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) Bruce Kirkland
Posted Dec 16, 2014
4/5
The Imitation Game (2014) Bruce Kirkland There is nothing unique about the film itself - except for the mesmerizing performance by Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role.
Posted Dec 11, 2014
3/5
Corner Gas: The Movie (2014) Jim Slotek
Posted Dec 01, 2014
2.5/5
Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) Bruce Kirkland
Posted Nov 26, 2014
4/5
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (2014) Bruce Kirkland Mockingjay - Part 1 is as dingy and dark as Blade Runner, but just as fascinating. No more party dresses catching fire. No more fantasy games. In their place is a war tableau that seems realistic, even if this is a futuristic fantasy film.
Posted Nov 20, 2014
1/4
Dumb and Dumber To (2014) Bruce Kirkland
Posted Nov 13, 2014
4.5/5
Interstellar (2014) Bruce Kirkland Interstellar is the most ambitious, intelligent and daring space epic since Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Posted Nov 04, 2014
3.5/5
Fury (2014) Bruce Kirkland War really is hell, and Fury shows how.
Posted Oct 16, 2014
Alien (1979) Derek Tse
Posted Oct 15, 2014
1/5
Left Behind (2014) Liz Braun
Posted Oct 03, 2014
4/5
Gone Girl (2014) Liz Braun Even those who have read Gillian Flynn's novel can expect to be surprised by the jolts and jumps in David Fincher's take on events.
Posted Sep 29, 2014
2.5/5
The Maze Runner (2014) Jim Slotek The movie whets the viewer's appetite, and then offers up nothing but loose ends and strained credulity.
Posted Sep 19, 2014
3/5
Swearnet (2014) Liz Braun
Posted Aug 29, 2014
2.5/5
The Calling (2014) Liz Braun
Posted Aug 29, 2014
Chicken Run (2000) Louis B. Hobson
Posted Aug 24, 2014
Chicken Run (2000) Randall King
Posted Aug 24, 2014
3.5/5
Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) Bruce Kirkland
Posted Aug 21, 2014
2.5/5
The Expendables 3 (2014) Steve Tilley The Expendables 3 is like a joke that's been told too many times to still be funny.
Posted Aug 15, 2014
2.5/5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) Steve Tilley
Posted Aug 07, 2014
4.5/5
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) Bruce Kirkland The Marvel Cinematic Universe was getting a little too safe and dangerously repetitive. Guardians of the Galaxy gleefully breaks all the rules.
Posted Jul 29, 2014
3/5
Hercules (2014) Bruce Kirkland Idiocy and excess is rarely this much fun - but Brett Ratner's Hercules is just the kind of macho madness that this comic book version of the myth requires when Dwayne Johnson is the chosen one.
Posted Jul 25, 2014
Bless the Child (2000) Louis B. Hobson Bless the Child is unsettling but it is never really terrifying. It's closer to a scary dream than a true nightmare.
Posted Jul 22, 2014
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