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Review of Black Water (2018)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Jun 2018

Criminal negligence of Dolph is far from Black Water’s only sin — there’s also the sluggish pacing, murky musical score, and somnambulant…

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Review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 28 Jun 2018

Scenes from a class struggle on the Morrison Formation…

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Review of Incredibles 2 (2018)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 28 Jun 2018

Incredibles 2 may not be superior to the original, but it was well worth the wait…

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Review of Hereditary (2018)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 28 Jun 2018

The final act is a master class in swiftly mounting dread, and the climax is both terrifying and deeply unsettling…

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Review of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Film Threat (5,156) on 18 Apr 2018

Maybe if PETA tried being funny instead of comparing eating meat to the Holocaust, they’d have a bigger following…

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Review of Molly's Game (2017)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Feb 2018

We can thank Chastain for making Molly's Game as watchable as it is…

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Review of Ghost in the Shell (2017)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Feb 2018

Whatever larger questions Ghost in the Shell feebly tries to address are drowned out by action sequences we've already seen and institutional…

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Review of Annabelle: Creation (2017)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Feb 2018

Annabelle: Creation is still scarier than most, but it's time to come up with some new tricks…

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Review of Atomic Blonde (2017)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Feb 2018

So while maybe assigning a statuesque platinum blond to deep cover ops isn't the best idea... Atomic Blonde is still good, stylish fun…

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Review of The Big Sick (2017)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Feb 2018

The Big Sick is that rarest of romantic comedies, in that it's both funny (often hilariously so) and poignant while still allowing its characters…

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Review of Justice League (2017)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Feb 2018

But they're not enough to overcome the aforementioned Snyder-isms or the endless reminders that Earth has lost hope since the big blue schoolboy…

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Review of Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Feb 2018

[Taika] Waititi succeeds in making Thor both relatable and relevant, and gives us the freakiest - and one of the best - movies in Marvel's…

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Review of Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Feb 2018

But an ensemble piece like this doesn't hold up without support from, well, the ensemble, and they (generally) don't disappoint…

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Review of Rough Night (2017)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Feb 2018

Rough Night is the latest in the women behaving badly subgenre, but aside from McKinnon and some residual woke-ness, there's little to distinguish…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Feb 2018

The highs definitely outweigh the lows, and The Last Jedi is in the upper tier of films set in that far, far away galaxy…

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Review of The Dark Tower (2017)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Feb 2018

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Review of It Comes at Night (2017)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Feb 2018

It Comes at Night is an engrossing and devastating movie on its own merits, but if you're expecting eviscerations, you'll be sitting disappointed…

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Review of Wonder Wheel (2017)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Feb 2018

Wonder Wheel is an unpleasant movie about unpleasant people, and only Kate Winslet's standout performance and Vittorio Storaro's camera work…

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Review of The Commuter (2018)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 18 Feb 2018

There's some timely-yet-clumsy political commentary, which might be compelling if it was delivered by a guy who didn't make $20 million for Taken 3…

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Review of Black Panther (2018)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 18 Feb 2018

Coogler [...]has created an epic story of loyalty and destiny that somehow also feels intimate…

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