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Movie Reviews by Russ Fischer - Page 2 of 4

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Review of Five Nights in Maine (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for TheWrap (3,203) on 03 Aug 2016

Restraint is a good impulse when dealing with such a simple story of grief, and Curran’s approach does lead to good incidental visions of…

Review of Pete's Dragon (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for TheWrap (3,203) on 26 Jul 2016

David Lowery‘s ease with actors and command of tone make Pete’s Dragon one of the best remakes in recent years…

Review of Star Trek Beyond (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for TheWrap (3,203) on 14 Jul 2016

This episode cuts right to the core of the series’s original appeal, giving the terrific cast a chance to play against one another in a straightforward…

Review of Bastille Day (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Jul 2016

There’s no heart in this movie, no urgency…

Review of The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Jun 2016

I can respect the intent to craft The Legend of Tarzan as a new chapter for the hero, one which is aware of all the shortcomings of many Tarzan…

Review of Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 25 Jun 2016

There’s no heart in this movie, no urgency…

Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Jun 2016

As it fritters away character work and ideas about faith and devotion, this is a film clever enough to scare us but not smart enough to accomplish…

Review of Warcraft (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 24 May 2016

Warcraft may provide grand, thunderous spectacle as it transforms human actors into hulking Orcs, but when trying to perform the alchemy of…

Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 May 2016

The Nice Guys, which the screenwriter also directed, is the best of Black’s films…

Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 May 2016

The film is never as savage as the first-act anarchy suggests it might be, and its best ideas are subsumed into familiar thriller concepts…

Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 08 May 2016

Apocalypse feels like a cog in Fox’s perpetual-motion blockbuster machine, paying lip service to the story’s allegorical potential as it…

Review of Elvis & Nixon (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 20 Apr 2016

The actors test one another like boxers perpetually about to throw the first punch, but all the buildup around their encounter is flabby and…

Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Apr 2016

Striking and consistently engaging, the Russos deftly craft compelling blockbuster entertainment out of a a moral and emotional conflict, and…

Review of Hardcore Henry (2015)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Apr 2016

Sure, there's a bit of spectacle to the film's utterly ridiculous violence…

Review of Demolition (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for Nerdist (550) on 07 Apr 2016

The intensity of his destructive tendencies increases, but empathetic ties to Davis are elusive, despite effective and committed work from…

Review of Cold Pursuit (2019)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Apr 2016

Sure, there's a bit of spectacle to the film's utterly ridiculous violence…

Review of The Boss (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 05 Apr 2016

McCarthy has a great knack for vicious verbiage, and in combination with her supreme physical control there's pleasure in seeing Darnell tear…

Review of The Jungle Book (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 02 Apr 2016

The strikingly realistic scenery is dappled with color, light and shadow to create dramatic stages for masterful character animations— if…

Review of The Jungle Book (1994)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 02 Apr 2016

The strikingly realistic scenery is dappled with color, light and shadow to create dramatic stages for masterful character animations— if…

Review of The Jungle Book (1967)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 02 Apr 2016

The strikingly realistic scenery is dappled with color, light and shadow to create dramatic stages for masterful character animations— if…

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