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Review of The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 15 Aug 2017

It’s an obvious formula, but when the movie sticks to it, it works well enough; Reynolds and Jackson have pretty decent chemistry…

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Review of Menashe (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 15 Aug 2017

The movie was (apparently) shot guerrilla style by director Weinstein, though the filmmakers have been coy as to which scenes were captured…

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Review of Logan Lucky (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 15 Aug 2017

The movie has things on its mind, like the expendability of labor in the modern workplace…

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Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 09 Aug 2017

Suffice it to say that as James is pushed into the real world, the real world is more than willing to meet him halfway, in a way that is touching…

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Review of The Glass Castle (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 09 Aug 2017

The Glass Castle is an unfortunately flat and messy adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ best-selling memoir about growing up with extreme poverty…

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Review of Wind River (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 08 Aug 2017

It’s here that Sheridan’s genre instincts get the best of him, and Wind River gives way to lurid exploitation…

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Review of Landline (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 03 Aug 2017

What stands out, though, is the dynamic between Dana and Ali. It’s been some time since I’ve seen sisters drawn this well and this convincingly…

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Review of The Dark Tower (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 02 Aug 2017

I give Elba enormous credit for maintaining a straight face — he and Taylor account for the movie’s few good moments — but the silly…

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Review of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 02 Aug 2017

Gore is his own form of renewable energy…

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Review of Landline (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 02 Aug 2017

What stands out, though, is the dynamic between Dana and Ali. It’s been some time since I’ve seen sisters drawn this well and this convincingly…

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Review of The Dark Tower (2017)

By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 02 Aug 2017

Though I'm generally not one to complain about a movie being too short, this adaptation seems to have achieved its brevity by eliminating most…

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Review of Detroit (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 Aug 2017

When we finally leave the hotel, the movie’s energy is spent…

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Review of Atomic Blonde (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 25 Jul 2017

Atomic Blonde is what fans of the Clash used to call a poser…

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Review of Lady Macbeth (2016)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 24 Jul 2017

Lady Macbeth is a mash-up of a different sort — it’s not strictly Shakespeare, but based on a Nikolai Leskov novel that transplanted elements…

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Review of Girls Trip (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 19 Jul 2017

It’s possible, even given Lee’s jaunty structure, that he could have given Girls Trip a more disciplined edit — the movie runs more than…

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

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 19 Jul 2017

The story is ridiculous, the digressions many, but it’s all intended to be part of the fun…

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Review of A Ghost Story (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 18 Jul 2017

Well, the movie is trippy and almost willfully opaque — all I can say for sure is I left A Ghost Story feeling full…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 17 Jul 2017

Nolan fractures the narrative so that it loops back on itself — we see the events from the perspective of different characters and from different…

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

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 11 Jul 2017

The contributions of the actors now blend more seamlessly with the animation to create digital characters, and the characters are being integrated…

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Review of The Exception (2017)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 05 Jul 2017

Courtney and James have good chemistry, and the sexual candor of their scenes together comes as a bit of a surprise, given the costume-drama,…

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