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Review of A Bigger Splash (2015)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 11 May 2016

This reworking of the 1969 erotic thriller La Piscine beautifully explores the difficulties of communication…

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Review of Holidays (2016)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 21 Apr 2016

Some of the films are haunting, some of them more macabre, but all of them play with holiday symbolism in way that will make viewers rethink…

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Review of Nina (2016)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 18 Apr 2016

Saldana (Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy) is an accomplished and bankable actress, but she doesn’t look much like Simone…

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Review of The Young Messiah (2016)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 16 Mar 2016

As this year’s other Jesus movies go, at least Risen managed to add new characters and perspective to one of the world’s most well-known…

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Review of The Other Side of the Door (2016)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 04 Mar 2016

The true horror of The Other Side of the Door is that Maria, too, has kicked off a vicious cycle of unnatural destruction, as the movie makes…

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Review of London Has Fallen (2016)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 02 Mar 2016

The new sequel, London Has Fallen, implausibly ups its predecessor’s stakes to Die Hard in the City of London…

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Review of Forsaken (2016)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 24 Feb 2016

Donald spits hot fire and brimstone, but Kiefer remains as bland an avenging angel of action as ever…

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Review of Race (2016)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 18 Feb 2016

Credit Race for showcasing its hero’s human flaws, but the movie unfortunately lets him get away with them a little too easily (his grand…

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Review of Risen (2016)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 18 Feb 2016

Risen is more entertaining than Bible-adjacent stories are usually allowed to be…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Black (2016)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 31 Jan 2016

The film manages to be surprisingly subversive with its humor…

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Review of Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 27 Jan 2016

Just complicated enough to reward steady viewers and just simple enough for parent escorts to enjoy without much prior knowledge…

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Review of The Boy (2016)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 25 Jan 2016

The Boy, from director William Brent Bell, aims to set itself squarely in the fictional canon of Chucky and its brethren, but it ends up trying…

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Review of The Forest (2016)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 08 Jan 2016

Ambiguity is good in a horror movie, but with this many plot elements elbowing each other for room, none of them achieve enough clarity to…

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Review of The Forest (2016)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 08 Jan 2016

Perhaps the biggest problem with The Forest is that it’s ultimately not very scary…

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Review of Labyrinth of Lies (2014)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 24 Sep 2015

Fehling gives a commanding physical performance as he transitions from ambition to despair to, finally, resolve…

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Review of Meru (2015)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 18 Aug 2015

Meru the film, then, might be the anti-Everest. There are no expensive special effects, but there is a lot of authentic climbing footage…

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Review of Welcome to New York (2014)

By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 25 Mar 2015

The film, which sparked enough controversy that French theaters refused to pick it up, spends too much time bogged down in its more decadent…

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