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Review of Hellboy (2019)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 09 Apr 2019

This Hellboy leans more into super-gory horror comedy than its predecessors, trading nuance for ripped-off limbs and boasting as much subtlety…

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Review of The Beach Bum (2019)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 28 Mar 2019

It isn't good and it isn't bad – it is, to borrow a fitting adjective, all right…

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Review of Dumbo (2019)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 26 Mar 2019

A visually sumptuous effort with wondrous sights, though its character development falls short of those same heights…

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Review of Shazam! (2019)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 23 Mar 2019

While genre tropes are very much in play, there's a certain magic in this “Big”-meets-Superman affair where an ancient wizard transforms…

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Review of Us (2019)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 18 Mar 2019

Peele is this generation’s Hitchcock, for sure, but also a true American original with introspective themes in hand and suspense to spare…

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Review of Gloria Bell (2019)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 06 Mar 2019

Julianne Moore shoots and scores – as well as laughs, cries, smokes, drinks, flies and sings – in the quirky Gloria Bell, which minds a…

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Review of Captain Marvel (2019)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 05 Mar 2019

It took three “Thor” films for Chris Hemsworth’s thunder god to find his groove…

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Review of Climax (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 28 Feb 2019

You won’t be able to tear your eyes off the screen, both because of the physically magnetic performances and also because it’s hard to…

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Review of Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 12 Feb 2019

For all its whiz-bang goodness, “Alita” is almost completely undone by its flawed script…

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Review of The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 05 Feb 2019

The message here is everything might not be as awesome as it used to be, but that’s OK…

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Review of Miss Bala (2019)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 31 Jan 2019

What keeps it all watchable is Rodriguez’s magnetism…

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Review of The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 23 Jan 2019

Director Joe Cornish grounded the alien-invasion genre with clever plotting and entertaining English youngsters with 2011's “Attack the Block”…

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Review of Glass (2019)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 14 Jan 2019

A befuddling mélange of superpowered showdowns, psychological gaslighting and self-important comic meanderings, it's a finale that doesn’t…

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Review of Destroyer (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 24 Dec 2018

While its narrative is unnecessarily complex and its story influences obvious, director Karyn Kusama (“The Invitation”) is mostly successful…

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Review of Vice (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 17 Dec 2018

Exquisitely crafted...It’s a strange little amalgamation that totally works: a vicious Shakespearean satire about power-hungry mind-sets,…

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Review of Vice (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 17 Dec 2018

Exquisitely crafted...It’s a strange little amalgamation that totally works: a vicious Shakespearean satire about power-hungry mind-sets,…

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Review of If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 13 Dec 2018

The scenes come alive even more thanks to Nicholas Britell's gorgeous score, laden with sweeping strings and brass melodies…

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Review of Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 12 Dec 2018

Whether together or solo, Blunt and Miranda are endlessly charming…

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Review of Aquaman (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 11 Dec 2018

Even with its flaws and struggles with originality, Aquaman is reminiscent of the early Marvel movies in its storytelling, best when taking…

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Review of Ben Is Back (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 05 Dec 2018

Starts like emotional gangbusters, loses its way a bit, yet finds a way home balancing gut-wrenching episodes and hopeful feelings…

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