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Review of Life of the Party (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 09 May 2018

If the summer film season is a monthslong shindig, then Life of the Party is the turd in the punchbowl…

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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 25 Apr 2018

It's the sense that everything has been building to this moment and now, as the fun truly begins, there's nothing left to do but sit back and…

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Review of Rampage (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 17 Apr 2018

What Rampage really needs is that playful sense of fun that made the video game-turned franchise so popular…

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Review of Ready Player One (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 29 Mar 2018

The challenges are exciting, extensive, and surprising, and few if any directors are better at staging these kinds of action set pieces than…

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Review of A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 09 Mar 2018

While the big-name cast in A Wrinkle in Time is great for marketing, there's a star problem in the film, and it's not Winfrey…

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Review of Game Night (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 22 Feb 2018

This outing doesn't go so well, with Game Night's inconsistent laughs and a plot that's too silly even for a comedy…

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Review of Black Panther (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 15 Feb 2018

Not since Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises has a superhero film so openly expressed politics - not so much ideology but a cultural…

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Review of Call Me by Your Name (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 25 Jan 2018

Most importantly, Call Me By Your Name is an honest story of hearts on fire, broken, and then healed, with wise affection for its characters…

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Review of I, Tonya (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 19 Jan 2018

A surprisingly funny faux documentary with obvious affection for its beleaguered namesake, I, Tonya does what 25 years ago seemed impossible…

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Review of The Post (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 11 Jan 2018

Historical irony, no matter how relevant, means little to movie-goers if a film isn't well told and well executed…

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Review of Molly's Game (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 05 Jan 2018

Chastain is fierce in a role that echoes that of a similarly tough-but-flawed D.C. lobbyist in last year's Miss Sloane…

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Review of Downsizing (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 28 Dec 2017

The result is a convoluted satire with so many critiques and messages, it's pointless rather than pointed…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 14 Dec 2017

The Last Jedi is the best Star Wars film since 1980's The Empire Strikes Back because it's so much more than stars and wars…

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Review of The Disaster Artist (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 08 Dec 2017

Why The Disaster Artist works so well is that it doesn't judge our reactions to it; the film is not in the slightest ironic or, as is fashionable…

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Review of Justice League (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 16 Nov 2017

Justice League is one of those superhero films that you can't help but cheer on…

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Review of Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 09 Nov 2017

Even when the plot and pacing slow considerably in the middle of Murder on the Orient Express, during what's mainly busy work for the detective,…

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Review of Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 02 Nov 2017

The balance of humor and action has become so one-sided that Thor: Ragnarok could use a laugh track…

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Review of Suburbicon (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 26 Oct 2017

In a drama and thriller that struggles to be anything more than passable, the absence of such gallows humor is sorely needed and missed…

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Review of Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 04 Oct 2017

As to the those big questions ... Blade Runner 2049 is conclusive about most things, but also asserts its own set of questions…

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Review of Gender Wars (2015)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 27 Sep 2017

King fought for better pay for women's professional tennis players ... Battle of the Sexes captures that zeitgeist. Just not in the way you expect…

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