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Review of The 355 (2022)

By Roberthoward (54) on 21 Aug 2022

Ultimately a disappointingly mediocre standard action movie despite a talented cast…

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Review of Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

By Roberthoward (54) on 08 Jul 2022

Love and Thunder is the result of trying to be funny no matter the costs - be it character development or even the plot…

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Review of Elektra (2005)

By Roberthoward (54) on 02 Jul 2022

The fight scenes are serviceable, but nothing too special…

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Review of Daredevil (2003)

By Roberthoward (54) on 29 Jun 2022

More of a dark and brooding affair, plagued by a story-line that must have been stale back in 2003…

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Review of Top Gun (1986)

By Roberthoward (54) on 28 May 2022

At its best when it focuses on the spectacular air combat scenes instead of the average love story and sequences on the ground…

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Review of My Salinger Year (2020)

By Roberthoward (54) on 16 May 2022

Especially thanks to two very good performance by Qualley and Weaver, My Salinger Year remains an intriguing character study, yet some plot…

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Review of The Courier (2019)

By Roberthoward (54) on 15 May 2022

Flat characters, chunky lines, and a simple plot could be excused but The Courier is boring at times and stretched for most of the rest…

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Review of The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

By Roberthoward (54) on 14 May 2022

The Men Who Stare at Goats has a great cast, but the mixture of sheer absurdity and narrative incoherence make it a less memorable satire about…

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Review of Tom & Jerry (2021)

By Roberthoward (54) on 14 May 2022

Inoffensive, mildly entertaining but also unremarkable, bland and with the two stars as the support of rather by-the-book characters…

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Review of JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)

By Roberthoward (54) on 17 Mar 2022

While it has its flaws and Stone's theories are open for debate, the very least JFK Revisited does is to stimulate the viewer to ask questions…

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Review of Focus (2015)

By Roberthoward (54) on 16 Mar 2022

Focus has well-portrayed, likeable leads with good chemistry and thanks to some humour and the obligatory twists and turns is a thoroughly…

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Review of Shadow in the Cloud (2021)

By Roberthoward (54) on 15 Mar 2022

If one is able to accept Shadow in the Cloud as the fictional, non-historic sci-fi horror movie that it is and suspends belief a bit, one can…

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Review of Doomsday (2008)

By Roberthoward (54) on 14 Mar 2022

Doomsday spends almost two hours of screen time on gore, subpar action and an incoherent plot that feels like a poor compilation of better…

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Review of The November Man (2014)

By Roberthoward (54) on 13 Mar 2022

The November Man wastes a good performance by Brosnan while leaving his supporting players mostly stranded by a storyline that is neither fleshed…

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Review of Palm Springs (2020)

By Roberthoward (54) on 12 Mar 2022

Palm Springs has two very good performances by its main stars, a believable chemistry, and although the mix of bittersweetness, nihilism and…

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Review of The Internship (2013)

By Roberthoward (54) on 11 Mar 2022

The Internship is a formulaic comedy with enough laughs to keep one mildly entertained…

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Review of Freaky (2020)

By Roberthoward (54) on 10 Mar 2022

The mix of teen family drama, comedy and horror is not always perfect, but Freaky is made with a certain amount of passion and is entertaining…

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Review of Oldboy (2013)

By Roberthoward (54) on 10 Mar 2022

Even for those who are able to stomach the various degrees of nastiness in Oldboy there is little to find but an underwhelming and pointless…

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Review of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)

By Roberthoward (54) on 09 Mar 2022

As a satire, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot has not really anything new to offer and is too superficial to really send a message about the Afghanistan…

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Review of Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)

By Roberthoward (54) on 08 Mar 2022

Even for a generic action movie, Hitman: Agent 47 is poor, uninspiring and without anything that would warrant recommendation…

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