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Review of Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

By Alec B (1,705) on 16 Dec 2018

Featuring a Dan Brown-esque plot and deliberate homages to both Ridley Scott and Roland Emmerich, this is definitely the weirdest of these…

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Review of Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

By Alec B (1,705) on 15 Dec 2018

I liked lockdown and optimus prime and the dinosaurs really good film…

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Review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

By Alec B (1,705) on 15 Dec 2018

I loved shockwave and megatron sentiel prime I kinda liked and optimus prime is just AMAZING…

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Review of Blindspotting (2018)

By Alec B (1,705) on 13 Dec 2018

The movie finds an elegant balance between it's more hard edge commentary and the broad humor…

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Review of Eighth Grade (2018)

By Alec B (1,705) on 13 Dec 2018

Fisher is great and Burnham clearly understands the awkwardness of early adolescence, but I really wish he'd found a way to bring all of the…

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Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Alec B (1,705) on 07 Dec 2018

Slow, vulgar, inconclusive ending, worst soundtrack ever (Baroque music)…

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Review of The Big Country (1958)

By Alec B (1,705) on 06 Dec 2018

Neither cynical nor naive, the movie functions as an interesting repudiation of violence and the mid-20th Century masculine archetype…

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Review of The Incredibles (2004)

By Alec B (1,705) on 03 Dec 2018

This is a lighthearted, feel-good movie about a super family…

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Review of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

By Alec B (1,705) on 30 Nov 2018

Mamma Mia 2 contains (almost) everything that the fans of the original could desire…

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Review of Who We Are Now (2018)

By Alec B (1,705) on 29 Nov 2018

What's interesting is how Newton both undermines naive sentimentality about the world while simultaneously not indulging in cynicism which…

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Review of Searching (2018)

By Alec B (1,705) on 29 Nov 2018

A few other films have tried the takes place entirely on computer screens conceit, but none really pulled it off until Searching…

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Review of The Little Stranger (2018)

By Alec B (1,705) on 27 Nov 2018

The Gothic anti-horror isn't the problem, its that no one seems to have quite figured out what the point of all this misery is supposed to be…

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Review of Point Blank (1967)

By Alec B (1,705) on 24 Nov 2018

Boorman seems uninterested in the actual revenge plot, giving the movie an eerie dreamlike quality where you're never quite sure if what is…

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Review of Overlord (2018)

By Alec B (1,705) on 23 Nov 2018

Overlord is a grisly explosion of B-movie insanity…

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Review of The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)

By Alec B (1,705) on 18 Nov 2018

Even with a cast including Emily Blunt, Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth, Winters War still feels like an extension with no purpose…

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Review of Sing (2016)

By Alec B (1,705) on 17 Nov 2018

Sing offers not only a unique Children's story, but incredible vocals and music (both borrowed and original)…

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Review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

By Alec B (1,705) on 17 Nov 2018

While the Crimes of Grindelwald was not as fresh as Fantastic Beasts, any Harry Potter fan will be able to feel the spell that JK Rowling has…

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Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Alec B (1,705) on 17 Nov 2018

The look of the movie is wonderful, the acting is terrific, the stories not particularly surprising though they seem to aspire to clever irony…

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Review of Ocean's Eight (2018)

By Alec B (1,705) on 16 Nov 2018

While the film itself has a few bumps and snags when it comes to a plot, the performances by the cast and the sheer aesthetic of the movie,…

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Review of Alpha (2018)

By Alec B (1,705) on 15 Nov 2018

Better than you might expect, even with the predictable plot. Hughes' emphasis on the visual is what salvages the movie…

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