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Review of Spy (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 08 Jun 2015

It's got such energy, a sense of fun, and builds so much good will for McCarthy as its central character, don't be surprised if a Susan Cooper…

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Review of Aloha (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 08 Jun 2015

Aloha feels thin, tonally weird, false, and undernourishing…

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Review of Love & Mercy (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 08 Jun 2015

Love & Mercy is a strong, unconventionally entertaining movie about the mysteries of the psyche the creative process and it's graced by a knowing,…

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Review of Live from New York! (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 28 May 2015

The movie entertains, sure, but the real story behind the puff stuff is way more complicated…

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Review of Tomorrowland (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 28 May 2015

As a recruitment poster for dreamers and reformers, Tomorrowland falls short…

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Review of San Andreas (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 28 May 2015

For connoisseurs of unintentionally terrible movies, San Andreas delivers more than a few hearty belly laughs…

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Review of Hot Pursuit (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 13 May 2015

We're no fans of capital punishment but if any movie deserved to be put out of its misery, it's this one…

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Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 13 May 2015

Utterly unhinged, magnificently inspired, hugely ambitious, deeply weird, emotionally resonant, and brilliant in every possible way, Mad Max…

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Review of Maggie (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 06 May 2015

Nothing in Maggie connects or coheres…

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Review of Welcome to Me (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 06 May 2015

Like the heroine it portrays, the whole thing is a curio: a queasy, unpleasant thing wrapped around a cry for help, and a self-indulgent one at that…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 30 Apr 2015

Overall, though, for all of its cheesy fun mixed with doom-and-gloom observations on the plight of humanity, this Avengers leaves us with the…

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Review of The Water Diviner (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 23 Apr 2015

Crowe, who's been having a rough time finding his footing again for a decade now, underplays his role so self-consciously that when he wants…

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Review of Felix and Meira (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 15 Apr 2015

Felix and Meira makes fascinating observations on forbidden love and as well as on the Hasidic community…

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Review of Child 44 (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 15 Apr 2015

The movie goes wildly off the rails chasing so many characters, subplots, and complications that you may find yourself zoning out…

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Review of Ex Machina (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 09 Apr 2015

Gleeson is terrific and Vikander, who stars in five other films this year alone, is a revelation…

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Review of Furious 7 (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 02 Apr 2015

It's bananas -- a loud, crackpot joyride and you'll love every messed-up minute of it…

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Review of Get Hard (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 27 Mar 2015

With such a promising premise at its center, Get Hard could have been scathingly, satirically funny, a kind of 48 HRS meets Trading Places…

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Review of Effie Gray (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 27 Mar 2015

The tragic sadness of a Victorian wife and the unraveling of her marriage might be a worthy subject but, as brought to the screen by so reverently…

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Review of The Gunman (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 27 Mar 2015

It's just another tourist salad bar of stale, limp man-on-the-run clichés with chases, hand-to-hand-combat, gunfire, and an hilariously pretentious…

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Review of Danny Collins (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 27 Mar 2015

Danny Collins isn't what it could have been but at very least the actors are terrific and some of the dialogue has a welcome, tart edge…

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