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Review of Elysium (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

It seems to me that Elysium has its heroes and villains confused…

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Review of The Lone Ranger (2003)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

The Lone Ranger is a weird mixture of daffy slapstick and deadly seriousness…

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Review of Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

So here we have another video game adaptation that critics will largely dismiss and audiences will mostly ignore…

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Review of Iron Man 3 (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

The Iron Man films are so much better when Iron Man isn't onscreen…

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Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Marvel has made what amounts to the biggest-budgeted paranoid thriller of all time…

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Review of Maleficent (2014)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Jolie is perfectly suited for the role, letting everyone know with her eyes when she's just funnin' and when she's actually angry…

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Review of Man of Steel (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Man of Steel is the movie of the summer. It's the Superman movie we deserve. And it's about time…

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Review of Metallica: Through the Never (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Metallica: Through the Never- three-quarters-concert film, one-quarter-disaster epic-is the most fun I've had at the movies this year…

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Review of Crimson Peak (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Beautiful and well-acted, expertly staged and shot, but tonally very uneven, veering wildly from one style of film to another with little warning…

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Review of Spectre (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

[Daniel Craig's] latest adventure feels more like an homage to Bond's past than a continuation of his recent hot streak…

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Review of The Revenant (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

The Revenant is a muddled and lumpy affair, one whose occasionally brilliant flourishes are buried in an overlong movie in love with its own…

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Review of Side Effects (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

A trimly paced thriller that plays with audience expectations and keeps viewers off-balance…

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Review of Snowpiercer (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

The film's something of a mess, trading swerve and style for cohesion and coherence…

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Review of The Witch (2016)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Robert Eggers ramps up the tension by setting his tale in a familiar-yet-foreign locale and using the natural terror of isolation to prompt…

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Review of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

As an action-thriller, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is more or less competent. As an heir to the Jack Ryan mantle, however, it is less so…

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Review of Run All Night (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

A rather dour example of late Liam Neeson…

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Review of Calvary (2014)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Calvary is both darkly comic and deeply sad. And it's well worth 10 of your dollars and 100 minutes of your time…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

The refusal of the camera to cut from scene to scene despite the film taking place over days of rehearsal and performances lends the proceedings…

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Review of No Escape (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

You're unlikely to see an action-thriller this summer that is as intense as No Escape…

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Review of Evil Dead (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

This Evil Dead remake is more 'blah' than 'boo…

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