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Review of The Equalizer 2 (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 18 Jul 2018

Suggests intriguing questions about the moral and ethical imperatives of justice...answers these questions with an Old Testament zeal: evil…

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Review of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 10 Jul 2018

This is the kind of lackluster animated movie at which you'll lose count of how many times the characters randomly break into dance--and that's…

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Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 02 Jul 2018

A good time at the movies…

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Review of Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 26 Jun 2018

A straight procedural, consumed by its plot at the expense of thematic nuance…

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Review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Jun 2018

In what starts to feel like a 'meta' running joke (or admission of creative exhaustion), the characters keep stumbling upon the leftovers of…

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Review of Incredibles 2 (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 10 Jun 2018

Plays it safe...another issue of the Incredibles comic book, another big-scale adventure with full-throttle action sequences, a bit of mystery,…

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Review of Ocean's Eight (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 05 Jun 2018

Ross brings a reasonably sure hand and plenty of eye candy to this slick, glitzy fantasy, which is no more or less than an amiable, star-powered…

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Review of First Reformed (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 29 May 2018

It's Schrader's on-point filmmaking--a nouveau spin on the spiritual films, character studies, and transcendental style of cinematic Old Masters…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 14 May 2018

Like estimations of how many parsecs it takes to make the Kessel Run, your mileage may vary when it comes to Solo: A Star Wars Story…

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Review of Life of the Party (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 May 2018

Since Life of the Party shows little interest in investigating the satiric possibilities of the two-decade cultural gap in play, or a weirdly…

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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 24 Apr 2018

[Spoiler-free review:] Marvel's superhero movies may not run the risk of being called 'elegant,' but they're sure as hell sturdy, well-built…

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Review of Lean on Pete (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 17 Apr 2018

The animal holds a mirror up to the human protagonist...how prone youth can be on the cusp of adulthood, how reckless when desperate or threatened,…

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Review of You Were Never Really Here (2017)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 10 Apr 2018

Ramsay's limber direction and another phenomenal leading performance by Joaquin Phoenix lend the material an aching sensitivity and an arrhythmic…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 03 Apr 2018

There’s plenty...that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny and even more that feels conspicuously derivative. But tell that to your pants as you pee them…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 03 Apr 2018

There’s plenty...that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny and even more that feels conspicuously derivative. But tell that to your pants as you pee them…

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Review of The Death of Stalin (2017)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 27 Mar 2018

Tales of the venal, the selfish, and the desperate, lurking--when not preening--in the halls of power…

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Review of Ready Player One (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 27 Mar 2018

Conjures plenty of empty spectacle...but doesn't underpin it with characters that move beyond the generic or, more crucially, the productively…

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Review of Tomb Raider (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 16 Mar 2018

One can see the wheels turning, literally and figuratively…

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Review of A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Mar 2018

Galumphing narrative and flatfooted whimsy...a downright awkward kiddie blockbuster…

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Review of Red Sparrow (2018)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 02 Mar 2018

A guy's fantasy of an empowered woman's story. She's smart! She's capable! She's sexy! She's nude! She's degraded! Wait…

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