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Review of Jason Bourne (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 25 Jul 2016

Once the story drags Bourne out of retirement, it's just a bunch of fights and chase scenes, only occasionally interrupted by a few lines of dialogue…

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Review of Lights Out (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 20 Jul 2016

A small, pitch-black treat, Lights Out takes a common childhood terror and uses it to spin a horror story with a new kind of ghost and some…

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Review of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 18 Jul 2016

If you're a truly mad AbFab fan, definitely go…

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Review of Café Society (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 14 Jul 2016

Café Society meanders a bit ... But because it's from a veteran comedian and filmmaker, it also has some smart jokes, and beautiful images…

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Review of Equals (2015)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 12 Jul 2016

Despite its pedigree, Equals is definitely less…

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Review of The Infiltrator (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 11 Jul 2016

In the end, The Infiltrator is as much of a poser as its hero. It wants to be a darker, edgier, more dangerous kind of film…

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Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 09 Jul 2016

The all-new, mostly female Ghostbusters reboot is in theaters, full of terrific special effects, icky green slime, a horribly haunted Manhattan…

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Review of Fathers and Daughters (2015)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 07 Jul 2016

Even as I knew I was being manipulated - and what art doesn't manipulate? - I was moved…

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Review of The Secret Life of Pets (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 07 Jul 2016

The big chase scenes and action-movie adventures are fine…

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Review of Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 05 Jul 2016

For a movie about a wedding, it still feels like a rehearsal…

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Review of Life, Animated (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 30 Jun 2016

Any parent who's ever worried about a child - which means, basically, any parent - will feel a sort of relief, and a bit of pride, watching…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 28 Jun 2016

Strip away Rylance's vocal performance and the expensive effects and you have little more than two hours of precocious children, silly adults…

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Review of The Purge: Election Year (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 28 Jun 2016

Effective as it all is - even with an over-reliance on jump scares - The Purge: Election Year is, like the rest of the films in a series, an…

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Review of The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 28 Jun 2016

Alexander Skarsgard is more abs than actor as the ape man, and Margot Robbie's Jane looks about as 19th-Century as an Aussie surfer girl…

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Review of The Innocents (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 28 Jun 2016

While it is set more than 70 years ago, its themes - of military atrocities, of violence against women, of misplaced guilt - feel depressingly modern…

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Review of Wiener-Dog (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 23 Jun 2016

Frankly, I started the film with a feeling of dread; I left it feeling drained, just wanting to go home, draw the blinds, and hug my own pet…

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Review of Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 23 Jun 2016

While the first Independence Day was genuinely big, dumb fun, its sequel only manages to be a bigger, dumber bore…

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Review of The Duel (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 23 Jun 2016

Even when The Duel isn't very good, at least it's bad in surprising ways…

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Review of The Shallows (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 22 Jun 2016

Lively can act, and she does a good job with a very difficult role here - holding our interest and sympathy for a feature-length movie with…

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Review of The Neon Demon (2016)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 21 Jun 2016

Refn has shown that he's a director who knows how to say things with energy and imagery and verve. Now if he could only find something worth saying…

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