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Reviews & Rants · Movie Review
Other Mommy Review: More Mommies Than Scares
Jessica Chastain and a terrific father-daughter pairing can't rescue a supernatural horror movie that runs out of steam long before it runs out of story.
Reviews & Rants · Movie Review
Verity Review: There Is No Light or Much Sense, It Turns Out
Anne Hathaway goes dark, Josh Hartnett delivers, and Verity keeps you interested until an ending that starts coming apart the more you think about it.
Reviews & Rants · Movie Review
Resident Evil Review: The Game I Never Knew I Wanted to Play
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil captures the feel of the games with terrific cinematography, plenty of laughs, and an adventure I wish I could play myself.
Reviews & Rants · Television
I Thought We All Agreed to Leave Point Break Alone
AMC is bringing Point Break back as a TV series tied to the Ex-Presidents, and one perfect ending plus one bad remake should have been more than enough.
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Reviews & Rants · Movie Rant
What Happens When Success Becomes an Actor's Career Ceiling
From Jennifer Garner and Alan Ritchson to Xochitl Gomez and Mark Hamill, Hollywood fame can open doors—and make the next role harder to land.
Reviews & Rants · Movie Review
CLAYFACE REVIEW: DC GETS ITS HANDS DIRTY AND GETS IT RIGHT
James Watkins and Mike Flanagan help turn one of Batman's strangest villains into a bloody, disturbing body-horror movie that proves Gotham has plenty of stories to tell without the Dark Knight.
Reviews & Rants · Movie Review
STREET FIGHTER REVIEW: LANDS A FEW GOOD HITS, BUT FAR TOO MANY MISSES
The characters look right, the soundtrack is great, and some of the performances are surprisingly good. So why does a movie about a fighting tournament spend so little time showing us the tournament?
Reviews & Rants · Movie Rant
Nepo Babies Aren’t the Problem. Bad Nepo Babies Are.
Hollywood has always had nepo babies. Some prove they belong. Others keep getting chances anyway. Then there’s Dakota Johnson.
High Five to the Face
Better Than a Punch to the Gut
Movies, music and five-item arguments that know when to stop before the list turns into homework.
Reviews & Rants · High Five
HIGH FIVE: 5 COVER SONGS I'LL FIGHT SOMEONE OVER
Five covers worth fighting over: Ryan Adams, Jude, Better Than Ezra, Gus Black and The Commitments reinterpret songs from Taylor Swift, Bread, Love and Rockets, Blue Öyster Cult and the 1930s.
Reviews & Rants · High Five
My Five Favorite Movie Soundtracks
Guardians of the Galaxy, Say Anything..., The Crow, Footloose and Purple Rain. Five movie soundtracks that became impossible to separate from the films they came from.
Reviews & Rants · High Five · Music
The Greatest Hits Curse
Five artists were still white hot when their greatest-hits albums arrived. What happened next makes the timing look a little too fucking suspicious.
Reviews & Rants · High Five
Five Times the Hero Lost—and Absolutely Deserved To
Doctor Strange, Stanley Ipkiss, Guy Gardner, Billy Butcher and Splinter brought their worst comic-book defeats upon themselves.
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