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Review of Ghostbusters (1984)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

Partly because of the cast, partly because of the effects, partly because of Elmer Bernstein's score, and partly because of [Ivan] Reitman's…

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Review of Black or White (2015)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

Simply casting too wide a net to feel truly satisfying. In trying to be color blind, it just comes off as tone deaf…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

Feels less like a literate attempt to translate Fitzgerald to the screen than it does the moonshine-induced fever dream of a crazed wino who…

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Review of The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

The Dark Knight Rises is resonant, emotional, and sometimes beautiful, but it's also overlong, overstuffed, and oftentimes frustrating…

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Review of Blackhat (2015)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

Arrives with such a resounding thud that one feels compelled to start a forensic investigation before the closing credits have even rolled…

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Review of Dr. No (1962)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

Dr. No is a solid, if unspectacular, start to the longest-lived movie series of all time…

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Review of The Da Vinci Code (2006)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

About as suspenseful and involving an affair as sitting through a two-and-a-half hour college lecture on cryptology, with a Sunday sermon thrown…

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Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

We've got a lot of road to travel before we'll know if the quest was worth it. But I'm willing to go along on the journey, so that's something…

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Review of Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

It all becomes a little bit much after awhile…

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Review of Criminal (2016)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

Criminal is a harmless, if disposable piece of pre-summer entertainment, and as is so often the case, even when the material doesn't measure…

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Review of Casino Royale (2006)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

James Bond is back, and as it turns out, he's been gone a lot longer than anyone even realized…

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Review of Godzilla (2014)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

The more time that passes from my initial screening, the less I focus on the pacing and logic issues, and the more my mind lingers on certain…

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Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

As the credits rolled and the foreknowledge of a collective eight-to-ten more hours of this stuff hit me, all I felt was fatigue…

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Review of The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

If there's one word to describe this film, it's middling…

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Review of The Fifth Element (1997)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

Aside from Besson's impressive directorial panache, always providing something eye-catching and original to look at...there is little else…

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Review of Chappie (2015)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

It's sure starting to look like we've hit the boundaries of Neill Blomkamp's particular wheelhouse…

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Review of Independence Day (1996)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

Never professes to be anything more than escapist entertainment, with enough gee whiz pyrotechnics to enthrall audiences…

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Review of Draft Day (2014)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

While some the broad strokes of the story may be fairly easy to call out fairly early on, it packs in enough what's gonna happen…

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Review of Casino Royale (1954)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

James Bond is back, and as it turns out, he's been gone a lot longer than anyone even realized…

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Review of Green Lantern (2011)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

This isn't quite the stake through the heart of the superhero movie that some of its most vociferous critics are making it out to be, but it…

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