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Review of American Ultra (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 20 Aug 2015

Think of Eisenberg and Stewart's characters several years down the road from 'Adventureland,' caught between 'The Bourne Conspiracy' and 'Pineapple…

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Review of Straight Outta Compton (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 13 Aug 2015

The beats are fly, the story is nitty-gritty and the timing is spot-on, reminding us of just how shocking, raw and impactive N.W.A.'s music…

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Review of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 11 Aug 2015

Nazi fascists, Italian playboys, speedboats, femme fatales, fast cars, double crosses, old-school spy do-daddery and gorgeous, eye-popping…

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Review of Vacation (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 30 Jul 2015

It's determined to get dirtier, darker, grosser and more all-around ickier than any 'Vacation' before…

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Review of Vacation (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 30 Jul 2015

It's determined to get dirtier, darker, grosser and more all-around ickier than any 'Vacation' before…

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Review of Southpaw (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 23 Jul 2015

Above and beyond the brutal, visceral slaps, jabs, and upper cuts is a bigger, softer story of a father and a daughter on a journey of emotional…

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Review of Minions (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 09 Jul 2015

It made me think of the Three Stooges recast for the modern age as pint-size, goggle-wearing, butter-hued niblets…

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Review of Love & Mercy (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 06 Jul 2015

Dano is nothing short of phenomenal in an Oscar-worthy performance that captures and channels the drive, innocence, obsession and brilliance…

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Review of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 01 Jul 2015

Give into it, go with it and let it take you where it leads you---and don't caught up in thinking that you already know where that will be…

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Review of Ted 2 (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 25 Jun 2015

An almost nonstop parade of crude jokes, celebrity cameos and gurgling bong hits-but I can't say it's not funny, and some of it is downright…

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Review of Inside Out (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 18 Jun 2015

The brain, science tell us, is one of the most complex things in all creation, and the movie's depiction of it is a thing of ingenious splendor,…

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Review of Jurassic World (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 11 Jun 2015

The underlying theme of man's hubristic drive to control-and commercialize-nature's primal power never gets in the way of its full-throttle…

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Review of Entourage (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 04 Jun 2015

Like an R-rated, 100-minute Viagra commercial shot inside a VIP strip club operated by light-depraved leprechauns…

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Review of San Andreas (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 28 May 2015

Johnson can rappel out of a helicopter and leap from a plane, hotwire a truck and pilot a boat through a tsunami, and even bring someone back…

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Review of Tomorrowland (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 21 May 2015

Maybe it really is a small, small world, after all. Now I'm super-curious about the secret purpose of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride…

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Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 14 May 2015

Makes most other blockbusters, superhero sagas and special-effect blowouts look like they were made with doodles, doodads and trinkets from a toy box…

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Review of Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 14 May 2015

Not quite as fresh as the original, but still a bright, light, fem-centric frolic of music and goofy fun…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 30 Apr 2015

The cast is top-notch, and Whedon packs the script and the screen with cleverness as well as ka-pow…

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Review of Unfriended (2014)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 16 Apr 2015

Delivers some truly unsettling jolts with a minimum of effects and what was surely a micro-fraction of the budget of much bigger, bloodier,…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 12 Apr 2015

A human comedy of people growing up and growing older, finding out who they are and what they want out of life, and learning that every age--and…

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