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Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 12 Jul 2016

Ghostbusters is a lively, hilarious crowd-pleaser, which is all that's really required of a big summer action comedy…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 12 Jul 2016

There are a few scary seconds here and there, but for the most part, this is a version of Dahl with the claws clipped, and it feels not just…

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Review of The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 28 Jun 2016

Waltz is the perfect villain in this setting: He's played this exact role before, as the smug, drawling, creepy aesthete who rarely stops smiling…

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Review of Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 28 Jun 2016

A film that so perfectly reveals its characters both through the way they charge past calamity, and the way they subtly reflect their own pasts…

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Review of The Purge: Election Year (2016)

By Emily Yoshida (237) for The Verge (432) on 28 Jun 2016

The Purge's satire is not of a particularly subtle or sharp variety, but it's deeply effective…

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Review of The Neon Demon (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 23 Jun 2016

The heavy threat of sexual assault, physical consumption, and predatory control hangs over the film's treacherous first hour, but once the…

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Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 15 Jun 2016

The colorful characters don't entirely hide the fact that this is a lesser Pixar film, coasting on Finding Nemo's popularity, and telling a…

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Review of Warcraft (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 08 Jun 2016

It's a knock-down, drag-out fight between storytelling, franchise-making, and fan service, and some casualties were inevitable…

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Review of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

By Lizzie Plaugic (3) for The Verge (432) on 02 Jun 2016

It’s hard to not forgive Popstar for its flaws, if only because its ambitions are so inherently silly…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 02 Jun 2016

Not all superhero action films need the MCU's banter or Deadpool's smarm. But you can't play a symphony with a single note…

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Review of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 02 Jun 2016

Comedy is rarely sympathetic to its victims, but by letting all the major characters serve as each other's karma engines, Stoller and the other…

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Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 02 Jun 2016

The film doesn't lack nerve-racking sequences or well-tuned jump scares…

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Review of The Fits (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 02 Jun 2016

Plenty of films give the viewers far more information and still wind up feeling opaque and distanced from the characters' lives…

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Review of Weiner (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 24 May 2016

The miracle of Weiner is that like the complicated man at its center, it's open to interpretation…

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Review of The Lobster (2015)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 18 May 2016

It's a cynical look not just at society and its structures and strictures, but at love itself…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 18 May 2016

While the characters are distinctive and charming, and the dialogue is often pretty funny, The Nice Guys is a large step down on the ambition…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 11 May 2016

Foster's daringly different comedy is more interested with observing its well-drawn characters, and what it takes to change them on a fundamental…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 02 May 2016

In terms of narrative ambition, and giving meaningful screen time to an ever-growing stable of onscreen characters, Civil War rivals Joss Whedon's…

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Review of High-Rise (2015)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 28 Apr 2016

Wheatley's past films — the dark comedy Sightseers, the genre-defying slasher Kill List, the weird black-and-white micro-project A Field…

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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 25 Apr 2016

The place the story ends doesn't necessarily fit with where it began, which leaves Hologram feeling like a fractured and uncertain oddity…

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