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Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Other than the lead actors - and I am sad to report that both DeHaan and Delevingne are miscast - the film is almost primarily recreated digitally…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Here, the battle is appropriately tense, horrific and tragic, not without beauty - whether in the grateful gasp of a man saved from drowning,…

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Review of Fist Fight (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

It's all a waste, and at best, I hope these actors learned to pick better films in the future…

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Review of Megan Leavey (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

It's a formulaic tale, but one for the shelf of contemporary films that are tracking our changing relationship to combat veterans, both human…

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Review of I, Daniel Blake (2016)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

There's no pat solution here, but Daniel has one Pyrrhic victory worth a cheer…

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Review of Stronger (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

It's still inspirational, but does a better job than most Hollywood bio-pics of depicting the smaller, but no less difficult, emotional steps…

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Review of Bitter Harvest (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

While Mendeluk's film is well intentioned and mildly intriguing, it falls well short of grandness…

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Review of A United Kingdom (2016)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Oyelowo and Pike make attractive leads -- particularly when contrasted with the cold-hearted, sherry-sipping, upper-crusty British bureaucrats…

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Review of Justice League (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

With its screenplay by Chris Terrio and Joss Whedon, Justice League is a good balance of light and dark…

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Review of Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Throughout the film, compelling arguments are made for how Western forms of music incorporated the rhythms and vocal stylings of traditional…

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Review of It (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Andy Muschietti's film has an assortment of entertaining features, but it's not likely to scare many viewers…

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Review of Brad's Status (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

So sad in the year 2017 that women get written into these reductive support roles…

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Review of Unforgettable (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Why these women are fighting over a man-shaped pair of boring khakis (Geoff Stults) is left unchallenged…

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Review of 47 Meters Down (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

It's summer, and if seeing a kinda-dumb shark-freak-out movie sounds good, then book this 90-minute cheapie cruise…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

What the film lacks in plot, tension, dialogue and fully realized characters, it makes up for with some fantastic visuals…

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Review of American Made (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

It's easy to root for Seal, because it seems like he's just along for the ride because it's more fun than flying short hops for TWA…

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Review of Passengers (2016)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Passengers is not a good trip. Director Morten Tyldum's film is a mish-mash of genres and premised on a creepy plot point…

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Review of Wilson (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Harrelson and Dern, even when portraying total screw-ups, are such winning actors they bring a fair amount of effervescence to the work…

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Review of Fifty Shades Darker (2017)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

It's important to convey how dull this film is…

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Review of Why Him? (2016)

By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

John Hamburg's R-rated comedy shuffles out a tired premise, re-sets it at the holidays for maximum last-reel feels and hangs it with a slew…

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