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Review of The Visit (2015)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 10 Sep 2015

There's too much good in it to call it a failure, but in many ways The Visit is less than the sum of its parts…

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Review of The Transporter Refueled (2015)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 02 Sep 2015

An endless NASCAR race trapped in a neverending circle, going round and round and round for eternity with no beginning and no end…

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Review of American Ultra (2015)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 21 Aug 2015

Less genre mash up and more head on collision…

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Review of Straight Outta Compton (2015)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 12 Aug 2015

Straight Outta Compton does not reinvent the musical biopic as a genre; merely hone it to a razor's edge, transcending a rote repetition of…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 29 Jul 2015

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation continues the series resurgence with moody suspense tied neatly to exciting set pieces centered on a stable…

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Review of Pixels (2010)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 22 Jul 2015

Sandler's own films, if they continue their pattern, seem destined for a similar fate as Brenner's old video games - buried in the past with…

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Review of Pixels (2015)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 22 Jul 2015

Sandler's own films, if they continue their pattern, seem destined for a similar fate as Brenner's old video games - buried in the past with…

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Review of Spy (2015)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 04 Jun 2015

McCarthy has honed her particular brand of comedy to a fine edge and proven she has a considerable arsenal to draw from; but she's also reached…

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Review of Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 14 May 2015

A rare sequel where audience investment is not entirely predicated on familiar faces going through familiar motions, and a rare series that…

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Review of Chappie (2015)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 05 Mar 2015

Featuring a lot of what we have come to expect from Blomkamp in both style and substance, the District 9 director's latest epic is high on…

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Review of McFarland, USA (2015)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 22 Feb 2015

McFarland, USA is a refreshingly optimistic look at how Latino-American and classic WASP culture can come to a rapprochement…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 13 Feb 2015

Bland and dull, except for the rare moments when it is unintentionally hilarious, all Fifty Shades has to teach the curious is that it doesn't…

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Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 13 Feb 2015

Bland and dull, except for the rare moments when it is unintentionally hilarious, all Fifty Shades has to teach the curious is that it doesn't…

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Review of The Boy Next Door (2015)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 10 Feb 2015

The Boy Next Door doesn't exactly aspire to a 'so bad it's good' level but it's so ridiculous that if you insist on suffering through it, while…

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Review of Jupiter Ascending (2015)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 10 Feb 2015

The Wachowskis have seldom disappointed but frequently bewildered with their varied choices and willingness to experiment within the Hollywood…

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Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 06 Dec 2014

Exodus: Gods and Kings - for all its pedigree and bravery - remains firmly in the shadow of its famous ancestors…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 06 Dec 2014

Battle of the Five Armies can be summed up with a phrase we can apply to the entire trilogy: good enough…

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Review of American Sniper (2014)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 01 Dec 2014

For all its easy humanity, the end result is off-putting and suggests that for all the care Eastwood and company take with Kyle's legacy, the…

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Review of John Wick (2014)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 16 Oct 2014

Wick is as you would expect, all style and no substance, not even a hint. What it does, it does well, but its ambitions are incredibly limited…

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Review of The Equalizer (2014)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 07 Sep 2014

Entertaining but uninspired, The Equalizer proves if nothing else why Washington remains one of our better, if underused, movie stars…

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