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Review of The Family Stone (2005)

By Christopher Borrelli (29) for Toledo Blade (302) on 30 Jul 2018

The movie feels sentimental but never cheesy: Our allegiances shift throughout, until we decide everyone deserves our sympathy, everyone has reasons…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 26 Jul 2018

Grows bolder and bigger, turning into a series of eye-rolling whoppers by the end…

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Review of The Equalizer 2 (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 19 Jul 2018

Everything that's wrong with the modern summer blockbuster: a meaningless franchise with only star power in its favor…

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Review of Skyscraper (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 12 Jul 2018

Yes, it's all preposterous, but Johnson as least makes it enjoyable…

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Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 05 Jul 2018

Mostly improves upon everything the original film did…

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Review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 24 Jun 2018

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom isn't a sequel but a clone…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 23 May 2018

Yes, these are all important moments in Han's formative years, but onscreen they are average and often pedestrian…

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Review of Life of the Party (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 09 May 2018

If the summer film season is a monthslong shindig, then Life of the Party is the turd in the punchbowl…

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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 25 Apr 2018

It's the sense that everything has been building to this moment and now, as the fun truly begins, there's nothing left to do but sit back and…

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Review of Rampage (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 17 Apr 2018

What Rampage really needs is that playful sense of fun that made the video game-turned franchise so popular…

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Review of Ready Player One (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 29 Mar 2018

The challenges are exciting, extensive, and surprising, and few if any directors are better at staging these kinds of action set pieces than…

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Review of A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 09 Mar 2018

While the big-name cast in A Wrinkle in Time is great for marketing, there's a star problem in the film, and it's not Winfrey…

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Review of Game Night (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 22 Feb 2018

This outing doesn't go so well, with Game Night's inconsistent laughs and a plot that's too silly even for a comedy…

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Review of Black Panther (2018)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 15 Feb 2018

Not since Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises has a superhero film so openly expressed politics - not so much ideology but a cultural…

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Review of Call Me by Your Name (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 25 Jan 2018

Most importantly, Call Me By Your Name is an honest story of hearts on fire, broken, and then healed, with wise affection for its characters…

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Review of I, Tonya (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 19 Jan 2018

A surprisingly funny faux documentary with obvious affection for its beleaguered namesake, I, Tonya does what 25 years ago seemed impossible…

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Review of The Post (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 11 Jan 2018

Historical irony, no matter how relevant, means little to movie-goers if a film isn't well told and well executed…

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Review of Molly's Game (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 05 Jan 2018

Chastain is fierce in a role that echoes that of a similarly tough-but-flawed D.C. lobbyist in last year's Miss Sloane…

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Review of Downsizing (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 28 Dec 2017

The result is a convoluted satire with so many critiques and messages, it's pointless rather than pointed…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 14 Dec 2017

The Last Jedi is the best Star Wars film since 1980's The Empire Strikes Back because it's so much more than stars and wars…

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