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Review of Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 17 Aug 2016

LAIKA Studios continues its streak of smart, idiosyncratic, and quirky animated features with the stunning Kubo and the Two Strings…

Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 04 Aug 2016

Alas, the result is a surprisingly disjointed mess…

Review of Jason Bourne (2016)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 27 Jul 2016

The movie is open-ended enough to allow for another installment, but what's the point if our hero has nowhere left to go, no more dark personal…

Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 19 Jul 2016

It's still a fun ride thanks largely to casting…

Review of The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 06 Jul 2016

Less pompous than Greystoke but more cartoonish than Disney's 1999 animated version of the material, The Legend of Tarzan is pretty to look…

Review of The Shallows (2016)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 29 Jun 2016

A fun piece of throwaway cinema, The Shallows is a sleek, beautifully shot, and mostly satisfying thriller that plays it smart and simple,…

Review of Warcraft (2016)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 22 Jun 2016

You can tell there is a lot of heart and effort that went into the making of Warcraft, which makes its artistic failure as a would-be fantasy…

Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 25 May 2016

A gritty, cynical, hilarious, and mostly satisfying bit of L.A…

Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 05 May 2016

Civil War's conflict is earned rather than contrived…

Review of Knight of Cups (2015)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 18 Mar 2016

Muddled, aimless, indecipherable, and shallow, Terence Malick's Knight of Cups is one of the most insufferable slogs in recent cinema…

Review of 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 18 Mar 2016

Goodman is responsible for most of the film's tension…

Review of Triple 9 (2016)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 04 Mar 2016

If it had been more lurid or more ridiculous, Triple 9 would at least function as a guilty pleasure. Instead, it's a poor man's Heat…

Review of Deadpool (2016)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 12 Feb 2016

Deadpool may be the comic book movie spoof to end all comic book movie spoofs…

Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 12 Feb 2016

A slap-happy valentine to the Technicolor heyday of Hollywood that lands somewhere between the trippy brilliance of The Big Lebowski and the…

Review of The Revenant (2015)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 12 Feb 2016

Equal parts beautiful and brutal, it's easily one of the most unsettling films of the past few years. It's also one of the best…

Review of The Hateful Eight (2015)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 29 Dec 2015

Watching Jackson and Russell play off one another as instant best frenemies is a hoot, and a little depressing: Why did it take so long for…

Review of In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 16 Dec 2015

The dialogue is dull, and the visuals are so slathered with mediocre CGI that they feel thoroughly phony…

Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 11 Dec 2015

Part 2 feels like it has a sense of direction that was lost after the first movie, and it's enjoyably more action-heavy…

Review of Victor Frankenstein (2015)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 11 Dec 2015

The only time the movie comes to life (so to speak) is during its climax, when Victor succeeds in bringing his creation to life and must deal…

Review of Spectre (2015)

By Gary Dowell (222) for Dark Horizons (452) on 12 Nov 2015

While Spectre is far from bad, it is likely to frustrate many fans, especially given its unenviable position of following on the heels of the…

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