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Review of Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 29 Jan 2016

Po now has an almost infinite number of movies to advance from Dragon Warrior to Master of Chi to...Ol' Dirty Bastard, which is what I assume…

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Review of The 5th Wave (2016)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 25 Jan 2016

If I didn't know better, I'd say these YA books are written by parents who don't want their kids sticking their dicks in shower holes or sleeping…

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Review of The Revenant (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 26 Dec 2015

Hugh Glass is like the Dirty Steve in a Dogme 95 Young Guns…

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Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 17 Dec 2015

Abrams and company know exactly where your emotional hanging curve balls are, and they hit every one of them out of the park…

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Review of Spectre (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 06 Nov 2015

There's an undeniable sense of finality in Spectre, with no clear path forward and an uncharacteristically (for the most recent movies) upbeat ending…

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Review of The Martian (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 01 Oct 2015

Hell, Sean Bean's in this movie and he doesn't die. It doesn't get much more feel-good than that…

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Review of Martian (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 01 Oct 2015

Hell, Sean Bean's in this movie and he doesn't die. It doesn't get much more feel-good than that…

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Review of Black Mass (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 17 Sep 2015

All this drinking, violence, destruction of property...are these the things we think of when we think of the Irish…

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Review of The Transporter Refueled (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 03 Sep 2015

The original movies weren't exactly Kubrickian in their construction, but Refueled plays out like a 14-year old's Transporter fanfic…

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Review of No Escape (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 25 Aug 2015

Samnang and his gang of revolutionary murder-bots don't appear to be interested in any domestic policy initiatives other than hacking people to death…

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Review of American Ultra (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Aug 2015

Like the stoners it's trying to appeal to, American Ultra is intermittently amusing…

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Review of Straight Outta Compton (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 13 Aug 2015

While the movie itself is a mostly warts-free depiction of the group's rise and eventual dissolution, the circumstances described by the band…

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Review of Fantastic Four (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 06 Aug 2015

Kebbell portrays Doom not as a dictator with supreme technical and sorcerous powers, but a video game playing beardo with daddy issues (to…

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Review of Ant-Man (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 16 Jul 2015

The result is a lighter, more overtly comedic effort than most Marvel films, and Wright's influence is still all over the finished product…

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Review of Minions (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 09 Jul 2015

The Minions always worked best in small doses. Tasked with carrying out the entire movie, they get tiresome quickly…

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Review of Terminator Genisys (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 30 Jun 2015

This is the second summer blockbuster in a row that requests, nay, requires that you shut down higher brain function to enjoy it…

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Review of Inside Out (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 18 Jun 2015

The film's core message, about how sadness is as much a part of life as happiness, hits harder than anything we've seen from the studio to this point…

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Review of Jurassic World (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 11 Jun 2015

God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man. Man creates dinosaurs again…

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Review of Spy (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 04 Jun 2015

Statham may never be 007, but here he's a perfectly workable...Man with the Golden Gag? Spy Who LOL'd Me? I'll work on it…

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Review of Ex Machina (2015)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 23 Apr 2015

Through cues both understated and not so much, the grim implications (grimplications…

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