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Review of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 04 Jun 2016

Instead of clawing at the soul-sucking nature of bad pop music, Popstar makes easy jokes about weed and poop and vacuous celebs that's more…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 28 May 2016

Tragically [combines] its picked-over-thrift-shop visual aesthetic with a shoulder shrug of a plot that feels straight out of a theme park…

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Review of The Do-Over (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 26 May 2016

The comedic equivalent of being whomped in the face with a pillowcase full of nickels…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 24 May 2016

[Shane] Black's weakest effort in an age, a shoot-from-the-hip P.I. comedy that isn't half as interesting as Inherent Vice and barely as funny…

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Review of The Lobster (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 19 May 2016

By the 60-minute mark Lathimos' bag of tricks is empty, kickstarting a long slide into tedium that sinks a project that should have sung…

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Review of Sing Street (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 17 May 2016

As joyous a moviegoing experience as 2016 has offered to date, sweet and funny and just dark enough to keep the admittedly imitative story…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 13 May 2016

A lumbering, outmoded Brachiosaurus of a movie that evokes a few turn-of-the-century thrillers that should not be evoked…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 May 2016

A barely adequate, tonally berserk lyric to the pains of franchise building. In other words, it does absurdly little with a whole lot…

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Review of Keanu (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 29 Apr 2016

A sweet, good-natured movie whose shortcomings are screamingly obvious, underlined throughout by the same likability that sustains it…

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Review of Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 26 Apr 2016

The aim of Everybody Wants Some!! is to mirror the warm feelings that come with a good beer buzz. And for that, there are few better options…

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Review of Elvis & Nixon (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 23 Apr 2016

Michael Shannon's Elvis alone demands to be experienced. Not for its accuracy, but for its lunacy…

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Review of The Watch (2012)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

A laughably inept comedic wasteland in which the only things harder to come by than laughs are reasons not to bolt halfway through and ask…

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Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

It doesn't so much revive the franchise as it confirms that it's still breathing. Barely…

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Review of Transcendence (2014)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

Transcendence gets an A for effort, competently melding art-film visual flourishes with a surprisingly intricate story and some pleasing performances…

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Review of Truth (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

This is the epitome of preaching to the choir, a movie either terrified of challenging its target audience or, even worse, unwilling to…

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Review of Riddick (2013)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

B-level sci-fi doesn't have to be this tedious or banal…

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Review of R.I.P.D. (2013)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

The kind of terrible that doesn't wash out, destined to be remembered among the pantheon of big budget bombs like The Adventures Of Pluto Nash…

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Review of Trumbo (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

The movie's greatest treat is Cranston, whose star-making turn in AMC's Breaking Bad has finally afforded him the starring big screen turn…

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Review of Sisters (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

Sisters impossibly comes off like it was conceived, written, and shot in less time than it plays…

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Review of This Is Where I Leave You (2014)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

One recurring gag features Fey's toddler ambling around with a plastic toilet, defecating in the most unseemly of locations…

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