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Review of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 11 Nov 2018

It makes the 2004 Antoine Fuqua version look like a masterpiece in comparison…

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Review of Annabelle: Creation (2017)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 11 Nov 2018

It fixes the problems of its predecessor without making the first film irrelevant…

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Review of Colossal (2017)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 11 Nov 2018

Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudiekis wonderfully break their usual character types and provide performances that are just as genuine as they are funny…

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Review of The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 11 Nov 2018

Silly but harmless buddy action movie that wishes it was as witty as a Shane Black script…

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Review of Cars 3 (2017)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 11 Nov 2018

The story and characters are fairly stock and predictable, but the new flairs it adds are much welcomed and give its final moments something…

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Review of Atomic Blonde (2017)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 11 Nov 2018

Atomic Blonde is certainly more than just John Wick in high heels, but for what it adds in depth it loses in fun…

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Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 11 Nov 2018

This spiritual sequel to The Fifth Element may be bloated and highly unfocused, but it compensates for it with a relentless sense of imagination…

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Review of The House (2017)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 11 Nov 2018

[The House] has just about enough worthwhile gags to hold your attention…

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Review of The Circle (2017)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 11 Nov 2018

The Circle posits an interesting and timely premise about identity and privacy in the social media age, but shows no real insight on the subject…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 11 Nov 2018

Dunkirk depicts World War II with barely an ounce of jingoism for maximum emotional effect…

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Review of American Made (2017)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 11 Nov 2018

Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman tell an interesting true story that plays like Goodfellas mixed with Top Gun…

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Review of The Dark Tower (2017)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 11 Nov 2018

A mundane and trite action-fantasy film that ... ends up feeling more like yet another bad YA adaptation rather than a grand fantasy epic…

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Review of Widows (2018)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 09 Nov 2018

Widows clearly has greater motivations than being just another crime flick, and McQueen's direction and thematic layering gives it an undeniably…

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Review of Overlord (2018)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 05 Nov 2018

The film would have been better served as a ridiculous grindhouse B movie, but the slickness of its execution has removed much of that potential…

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Review of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 02 Nov 2018

Behind its sugary bombastic coating, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is a hollow and baffling experience; it's like Jupiter Ascending for kids…

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Review of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 01 Nov 2018

If you went into this movie expecting anything more than the title suggests, you deserve to be disappointed…

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Review of The Host (2015)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 01 Nov 2018

The film is dull and slow, nothing happens during the entire second act, the dialog is laughable, and the ending is the most contrived and…

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Review of This Is the End (2013)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 01 Nov 2018

It's clear that these guys were just having some fun making a movie, and that fun they had translates onto screen perfectly…

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 01 Nov 2018

Silver Linings Playbook may well be my favourite movie of the year. Go see it. Like, right now…

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Review of Flight (2012)

By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 01 Nov 2018

Flight is an engaging film with an opening that is worth the price of admission on its own…

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