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Review of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 21 May 2016

Seems the committee of five who wrote the script couldn't make lightning strike twice even though they cleverly flip the gender so girls can…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 14 May 2016

George Clooney! Julia Roberts! The pedigree behind the set-in-real-time thriller Money Monster is reason enough to see the movie…

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Review of The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 01 May 2016

Brown takes a conventional hit-the-high-note approach in telling the story of an unlikely pairing between Ramanujan (Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire)…

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

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 23 Apr 2016

It is both a sequel and a prequel to 2012's Snow White and the Huntsman, but alas, Snow White wasn't even invited to her own party…

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Review of Sing Street (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 23 Apr 2016

Carney casts a nostalgic glow that never turns into overt sentimentality and hits all the right notes…

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Review of Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 16 Apr 2016

The first half of the movie is especially fun when each character who enters sparks a deluge of one-liners, battle-of-the-sexes banter or pop-culture…

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Review of Demolition (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 09 Apr 2016

It resonates more than it doesn't, but the part of Demolition that really slays you is watching Cooper, who lost his only child when the boy…

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Review of I Saw the Light (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 02 Apr 2016

There's a tear in my beer, for sure, after seeing the Hank Williams biopic I Saw the Light, a too simple a portrait of a complex man…

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Review of Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 02 Apr 2016

Richard Linklater's collegiate comedy Everybody Wants Some!! is a two-exclamation-point romp…

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Review of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 27 Mar 2016

In her sequel, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, Vardalos has lost the Midas touch, delivering nothing fresh or funny in revisiting the loud yet…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2007)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 Mar 2016

Director Gavin Hood takes a daring look at the toll war takes on everyone... you'll be sitting at the edge of your seat debating what you'd do…

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Review of Allegiant (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 Mar 2016

Sacrifice is the theme of Allegiant, the third and unfortunately not final installment in the dystopian Divergent Series, and that's exactly…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2015)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 Mar 2016

Director Gavin Hood takes a daring look at the toll war takes on everyone... you'll be sitting at the edge of your seat debating what you'd do…

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Review of 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 13 Mar 2016

I expected jump-in-my-seat scares. All I got was the fidgets and more laughs, most unintentional, than the last comedy I saw…

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Review of London Has Fallen (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 06 Mar 2016

If there's not enough real-life terrorism out there for you, then you can count on London Has Fallen to fill the gap with enough violence to…

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Review of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 06 Mar 2016

Kim's soul-searching is at the heart of it all, and when the movie is focused on her relatable dilemmas it's better than when it's not…

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Review of Snowtime! (2015)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 21 Feb 2016

The charming script, credited to four writers, turns on a dime when tragedy befalls one of the characters…

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Review of Risen (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 21 Feb 2016

A crisis of belief ensues, as Clavius, accompanied by his aide (Tom Felton, Draco in the Harry Potter movies) sets out to solve the mystery…

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Review of Where to Invade Next (2015)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 14 Feb 2016

Where to Invade Next is one of the Oscar-winner's (Bowling for Columbine) lighter efforts, but it's still entertaining and informative…

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Review of Zoolander 2 (2016)

By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 14 Feb 2016

And Stiller, who also co-wrote and directs, accessorizes his movie with the same fun and goofy energy as the first, even if the story is thinner…

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