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Review of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 05 Jul 2023

Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One isn’t quite as dynamic as McQuarrie’s preceding Fallout, but it’s not far off that standout’s…

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Review of Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 26 Jun 2023

Perhaps most surprising is that the portrait it presents is not of a tortured soul but of a man, and actor, who was comfortable in all the…

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Review of King of Clones (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 23 Jun 2023

A surface-level portrait about a scientific advancement that could change the world for the better or the worse, and a man who knows how to…

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Review of No Hard Feelings (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 21 Jun 2023

Exhibits a superficial interest in ribald revelry and yet, in most respects, neuters its wilder impulses…

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Review of Take Care of Maya (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 20 Jun 2023

This wrenching documentary—culminating with commentary from some of the 100 other families who contacted director Roosevelt with similar…

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Review of Extraction 2 (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 15 Jun 2023

At its deadliest, it’s a feat of breathtaking cinematic showmanship on par with recent standouts The Villainess, Carter and John Wick 4—even…

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Review of The Blackening (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 15 Jun 2023

Would have no reason to exist if it didn’t constantly foreground the issue of race, and yet affords no pointed or amusing commentary on the subject…

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Review of Maggie Moore(s) (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 13 Jun 2023

[Hamm’s] charm—and a reunion with his 30 Rock co-star Tina Fey—can’t salvage a middling caper that’s critically low on comedic or…

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Review of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 09 Jun 2023

It’s the safe and simplistic course correction that—neutered of the very absurdist immensity that was this franchise’s calling card,…

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Review of Brooklyn 45 (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 08 Jun 2023

It delivers supernatural and Earthly suspense in a period-piece package whose wit and personality help overshadow its rougher bump-in-the-night…

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Review of You Hurt My Feelings (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 07 Jun 2023

Proves to be an ideal showcase for its lead—even if its light comedy is a bit too slight…

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Review of How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 06 Jun 2023

A work that proves hopelessly at odds with itself all the way to a conclusion that fizzles at the moment it should explode…

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Review of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 31 May 2023

Setting a new benchmark for diverse, agile, breathtaking animation, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is as striking as non-live-action films come…

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Review of The Boogeyman (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 29 May 2023

Rob Savage’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 1973 short story is as stereotypical as they come, so devoid of originality that the most pressing…

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Review of Kandahar (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 26 May 2023

What [Waugh] delivers is precisely what fans are likely looking for, albeit in a package that’s more politically muddled than is necessary…

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Review of Sanctuary (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 26 May 2023

There’s no way to get a total read on what Qualley’s protagonist is up to, which turns out to be the primary thrill of this snapshot of…

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Review of Reality (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 26 May 2023

Though its real-life story ultimately proves a little too one-note, it makes up for its thinness with a powerhouse lead turn from Sydney Sweeney…

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Review of White Men Can't Jump (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 18 May 2023

Director Calmatic sanitizes every aspect of his source material until the entire thing looks, sounds and feels like a Disney sitcom…

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Review of Bama Rush (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 17 May 2023

What it reveals is an exclusionary environment that views beauty, wealth, privilege, and conformity as the highest of ideals—and which seems,…

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Review of Fast X (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 17 May 2023

There’s plenty of preposterousness to be found in this sequel, which barely revs to life when indulging in automotive mayhem and outright…

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Time Out (7,510)
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