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Review of Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 06 Aug 2017

Even a satire needs some sort of connective tissue, but there's no real narrative spine here, just soft cartilage…

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Review of The Dark Tower (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 03 Aug 2017

The Dark Tower avoids the lowest rungs of that ladder. Taken on its terms it's hardly a disaster, delivering moments of fun on a basic level…

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Review of Detroit (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 02 Aug 2017

Flaws and all, Detroit is still well worth seeing -- shedding a sobering light on an extreme case of criminality under the color of authority…

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Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 20 Jul 2017

If nothing else, those who lament Hollywood's over-reliance on special effects have a shiny new example of such excess by way of Europe, situated…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 19 Jul 2017

Nolan has delivered a visceral, suspenseful, at times jaw-dropping historical war movie, the lone disclaimer being that he sacrifices character…

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Review of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 12 Jul 2017

A stirring, soulful conclusion to a trilogy that has brilliantly evolved from its original source, claiming the admittedly not-very-competitive…

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Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 04 Jul 2017

Just as the character's primary goal here is about proving himself, in terms of Marvel injecting a rejuvenating vitality into its wayward wall-crawler,…

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Review of Okja (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 28 Jun 2017

A strange, well-intentioned but heavy-handed girl-and-her-animal story that merely demonstrates Netflix still has a lot to learn about the…

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Review of Despicable Me 3 (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 28 Jun 2017

While the first movie was, as noted, at its core rather charming, for Despicable Me, the third time definitely isn't the charm…

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Review of Baby Driver (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 26 Jun 2017

As sharply executed as a hairpin turn, Baby Driver is a crackling-good ride, one that organically weaves music and humor into a slick showcase…

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Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 22 Jun 2017

Writer-director Sofia Coppola has produced a small-scale movie that exalts old-fashioned movie-making qualities, yielding a refreshingly understated…

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Review of The Big Sick (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 21 Jun 2017

This is an impressive first feature, one that resonates more strongly thanks to its fact-based underpinnings…

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Review of 47 Meters Down (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 15 Jun 2017

The movie's saving grace is the visceral response that sharks produce, even more than four decades after Jaws first had audiences screaming…

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Review of Cars 3 (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 14 Jun 2017

Pixar's level of ambition has always gone beyond producing movies strictly for children, which makes the retread aspects of something like…

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Review of The Mummy (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 08 Jun 2017

The Mummy is a mess, a movie in such a hurry to introduce more monsters under Universal's Dark Universe banner that it comes awkwardly wrapped…

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Review of Wonder Woman (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 31 May 2017

The movie does drag a bit during that midsection after Diana bids farewell to the Amazons, but it's consistently entertaining, buoyed in no…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 24 May 2017

[It] tries to turn back time, seeking to replicate the first 2003 film's chemistry…

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Review of Baywatch (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 24 May 2017

A Baywatch movie needn't be high art -- its TV inspiration certainly wasn't -- but did it have to be this inane…

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Review of Dirty Dancing (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 23 May 2017

ABC'S Dirty Dancing remake fits snugly in a box, adding just enough appealing wrinkles to its predecessor's familiar moves to provide, if not…

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Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 18 May 2017

The trappings of Wizard of Lies are, like Madoff's possessions, designed to impress…

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