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Review of Night School (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 25 Sep 2018

Night School surprises by being an unexpectedly empathetic look at learning disabilities…

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Review of The Old Man & the Gun (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 25 Sep 2018

If this is truly it in a cinema life well-lived, Old Man couldn't be a more perfect adieu…

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Review of The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 19 Sep 2018

Black has turned himself into a family-friendly joy who's really fun to watch, and Blanchett complements him as both friend and paternal figure…

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Review of Life Itself (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 19 Sep 2018

Life Itself is a real downer when it comes to death: A few are so out-of-nowhere that it’s like the hipster version of the “Game of Thrones”…

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Review of Halloween (2018)

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

By staying true only to the initial narrative, this Halloween solidly ranks as the best chapter since the first – not exactly the highest…

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Review of The Predator (2018)

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

A B-movie at its heart with big-budget ambitions…

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Review of White Boy Rick (2018)

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

White Boy Rick works better as a working-class father/son drama than a cautionary tale about the American judicial system, though it never…

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Review of The Nun (2018)

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

A mix of slow-burn religious mystery and old-school adventure that egregiously fails to utilize its greatest hit: Bonnie Aarons’ terrifyingly…

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Review of The Happytime Murders (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 22 Aug 2018

Stuffed full of rampant badness, the scattershot comedy isn’t nearly as clever or subversive as it thinks it is…

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Review of Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

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

It’s breezy and hilarious yet offers enough heartfelt gravitas to give the feel-good date movie needed emotional heft…

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Review of BlacKkKlansman (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 06 Aug 2018

Washington (son of Denzel) has an impressive Afro and winning charisma as the first black cop in town…

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Review of Christopher Robin (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 01 Aug 2018

There’s no end to the schmaltz in Winnie the Pooh’s honey pot, yet Disney’s live-action Christopher Robin also tosses in enough charm…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 23 Jul 2018

While the movie on the whole isn’t quite the caliber of the last two missions (“Ghost Protocol” and “Rogue Nation”), director Christopher…

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

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

The superior yet still extraordinarily cheesy Here We Go Again suffers from many of the same fundamental problems, though the film exudes an…

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Review of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 10 Jul 2018

Between the goofy humor, Adam Sandler’s hallmark gibberish and an unfortunate return of The Macarena, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation…

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Review of Sorry to Bother You (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 02 Jul 2018

Once Cassius starts using his very Caucasian vocals, he becomes the office wunderkind…

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Review of Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 27 Jun 2018

There’s also a relentless darkness in Soldado that some fans of the original will love, but the inherent idealism of Blunt’s Macer is missed…

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Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 26 Jun 2018

While Ant-Man's technically “the star,” this is most definitely the Wasp’s movie to own, and the smirking, enjoyably no-nonsense role…

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Review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 19 Jun 2018

Has all the requisite rampaging dinos, dizzying action scenes and, sure, a few flesh-and-blood heroes running around saving the day…

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Review of SuperFly (2018)

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

Somewhere between ridiculously stylish and stylishly ridiculous lies Superfly, a modern so-bad-it’s-kinda-good remake of the 1970s blaxploitation…

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