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Review of Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

A rattling clash of faux-gallantry and misplaced slapstick: a knight's tale as told by the court jester…

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Review of It Comes at Night (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

This isn't so much a horror film about monsters as it is a psychological thriller about isolation, the choices made for survival, and the struggle…

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Review of A Cure for Wellness (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

Though its pieces don't quite congeal into a streamlined narrative, Gore Verbinski's shift away from swashbuckling adventures and back to gothic…

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Review of Fifty Shades Darker (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

Watching Fifty Shades Darker, the sequel to 2015's Fifty Shades of Grey, was akin to having ice cream after getting all four wisdom teeth removed…

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Review of T2 Trainspotting (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

In T2, our four main characters examine their lives and the degrees of cool they may have once achieved, or whether they ended up like one…

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Review of Wonder Woman (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

If superheroes are supposed to be heightened versions of ourselves at our brightest and darkest points, then it is no wonder women are appreciating…

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Review of The Boss Baby (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

Dark matters in a children's story, like the Grimm's Fairy Tales that Tim reads to Boss Baby at night, render the moral too packaged and slick…

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Review of La La Land (2016)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

La La Land is unapologetically nostalgic for dreams, and the dream factory itself…

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Review of Life (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

[A] don't-call-it-Alien alien movie that is long on ambition, but short on logic that repeatedly picks and tears at the story's flow and distracts…

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Review of Hidden Figures (2016)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

Balancing each woman's story within the structure of the Space Race is deftly handled, as their workdays require them to give 110 percent and…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

Regardless of genre or construct, Get Out is a film that demands to be repeatedly seen to spot new clues in the most innocuous spaces, despite…

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Review of The Love Witch (2016)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 17 Jul 2017

At times wickedly funny and blunt, this film is as unique in its presentation as it is retro in style, with a magnetic lead character who takes…

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Review of Kids in Love (2016)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 17 Jul 2017

Kids in Love treads the line between a video commercial for Anthropologie and the creeping anxiety of reality and adulthood that threaten to…

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Review of Shut In (2016)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 17 Jul 2017

By the third act, we have seen so much of so little that the outcome leaves everyone shortchanged…

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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

The film ends on a dour note, indicating a forward progress backwards, both dooming us to repeat yet again in the next film and pushing forward…

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Review of Free Fire (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

Watching Free Fire was like babysitting a gaggle of little hellions intent on destroying everything in their path and just herding them into…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

Charisma can only hold out so long against a lack of originality…

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Review of The Dinner (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 17 Jul 2017

The actions of all four adults in the film's final moments, where they are literally ambling about in different directions after six tightly…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

In his final round as Wolverine, Jackman's iconic portrayal ultimately shows the man coming around…

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Review of Snatched (2017)

By Brooke Corso (225) for The Monitor (McAllen, TX) (201) on 17 Jul 2017

A hodgepodge of wasted opportunities to capitalize not only on the comic talents of both women, but the story itself to venture off the worn…

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