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Review of Bad Moms (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 27 Jul 2016

A raunchy, righteously rollicking yarn about the conflicted yin and yang of motherhood…

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Review of Lights Out (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 20 Jul 2016

First-time feature director-writer David F. Samberg makes an impressive debut, proving you don't need mega bucks to get maxi scares…

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Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 13 Jul 2016

Confronts its critics head-on with freewheeling 2016 girl power…

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Review of The Secret Life of Pets (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 05 Jul 2016

Great, clever, whimsical fun, with a heartwarming, cuddly overlay of friendship and family…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 29 Jun 2016

Spielberg's signature touches fit perfectly into Dahl's narrative, which combines lightness and whimsy with whirls of darkness and spikes of danger…

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Review of The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 29 Jun 2016

A sumptuous, sprawling epic that blends backstory with a rollicking new tale of adventure, romance and enough eye candy to attract audiences…

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Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 16 Jun 2016

There may be tears. But remember what Dory says: Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…

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Review of Central Intelligence (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 15 Jun 2016

They may not be anywhere near the same size, but these two very funny actors are in perfect alignment for this hilarious spy-spoof assignment…

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Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 09 Jun 2016

A retro terror trip to re-live another harrowing, real-life event from the annals of America's original ghost busters…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 25 May 2016

Once again, Depp is all tics, weird hair and crazy quirks-and Sacha Baron Cohen glides right in and steals the show…

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Review of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 19 May 2016

Look through the haze of weed and the raunchy jokes and you'll see a movie that's grown up with its audience, its subject matter and its subjects--and…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 18 May 2016

A juicy, slam-bang action-comedy cocktail punched up, pimped out and powered down with rowdy, new-fangled film-noir fun…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 05 May 2016

A big, sprawling superhero mega-movie, with more spandex to the gallon than any flick that's come down the pike in a long time…

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Review of Mother's Day (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 28 Apr 2016

The large, talented cast has little to do but go with the flow of the overly sweetened, sentimental twists and turns, but the sap eventually…

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Review of Mother's Day (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 28 Apr 2016

The large, talented cast has little to do but go with the flow of the overly sweetened, sentimental twists and turns, but the sap eventually…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 27 Apr 2016

The real treat is watching the classically trained Stewart, whose harrowing performance gives this raw, edgy, awesomely impressive, little…

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Review of The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 20 Apr 2016

A drab, disjointed stab by a first-time feature director who, bless his heart, can't seem to find his target in all the icy, FX-laden glop…

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Review of The Jungle Book (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 13 Apr 2016

With this outstanding upgrade to yet another childhood classic, Kipling still gets a writing credit, but Disney--as it usually does--again…

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Review of The Boss (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 06 Apr 2016

A flopping mess, a hammy hodgepodge of crude jokes, awkward slapstick gags and sometimes mean-spirited, vulgar humor that just isn't funny…

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Review of The Boss (2016)

By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 06 Apr 2016

A flopping mess, a hammy hodgepodge of crude jokes, awkward slapstick gags and sometimes mean-spirited, vulgar humor that just isn't funny…

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