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REVIEW: Rom-Com Tropes Slightly Elevated in <i>Crazy Rich Asians</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Rom-Com Tropes Slightly Elevated in Crazy Rich Asians

Aug 15th, 2018
There are two things about Crazy Rich Asians that separate it from most romantic comedies. One is that it's good. Based on Kevin Kwan's bestselling...
REVIEW: No One's Expectations Low Enough to Enjoy <i>Slender Man</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: No One's Expectations Low Enough to Enjoy Slender Man

Aug 13th, 2018
Even by the low standards of lame PG-13 horror movies about teenage girls being harassed by supernatural entities, Slender Man is quite bad. Based...
REVIEW: <i>Summer of 84</i> Just a Big Pile of '80s Tropes with No Twist
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Summer of 84 Just a Big Pile of '80s Tropes with No Twist

Aug 10th, 2018
Summer of 84 is by the trio of Canadian directors -- François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell, known collectively as RKSS (Roadkill...
REVIEW: <i>The Meg</i> Not Stupid Enough to Meet Its Full Potential
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: The Meg Not Stupid Enough to Meet Its Full Potential

Aug 10th, 2018
Like most action movies, The Meg begins with its tough-guy hero (who is the best of the best at what he does) performing a mission that goes awry,...
A First-Timer's Report from Fantasia Festival
Eric D. Snider

A First-Timer's Report from Fantasia Festival

Aug 9th, 2018
If you're like me, you 1) assumed the Fantasia International Film Festival just showed Disney's Fantasia on a loop for a few days; and 2) are a...
REVIEW: <i>Dog Days</i> Should Be Terrible But Isn't
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Dog Days Should Be Terrible But Isn't

Aug 8th, 2018
You know those Garry Marshall ensemble comedies like Mother's Day and New Year's Eve, where various strangers' lives intersect around a particular...
REVIEW: <i>Eighth Grade</i> Much Funnier, Slightly Less Painful Than Eighth Grade
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Eighth Grade Much Funnier, Slightly Less Painful Than Eighth Grade

Aug 7th, 2018
Bo Burnham, the first YouTube comedian to leverage his online fame into a mainstream career, is 27 years old and a boy. Yet he has somehow written...
REVIEW: <i>The Darkest Minds</i> Cheerfully Portrays the Death of All Children
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: The Darkest Minds Cheerfully Portrays the Death of All Children

Aug 3rd, 2018
With basic-cable production values and an exceedingly generic story, The Darkest Minds is the latest teenage dystopian fantasy film based on a...
REVIEW: A Gentle, Watered-Down <i>Christopher Robin</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: A Gentle, Watered-Down Christopher Robin

Aug 3rd, 2018
Disney's Christopher Robin is not a biography of Christopher Robin Milne, the boy featured in his father A.A.'s Winnie-the-Pooh books. There was a...
REVIEW: More Like <i>The Spy Who Dumped Meh</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: More Like The Spy Who Dumped Meh

Aug 2nd, 2018
The two main characters in The Spy Who Dumped Me are ordinary women who get caught up in international espionage and turn out to be -- what are the...
REVIEW: <i>Mission: Impossible — Fallout</i> Will Entertain You or Die Trying
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Mission: Impossible — Fallout Will Entertain You or Die Trying

Jul 27th, 2018
Tom Cruise has been starring in Mission: Impossible movies for 22 years, and his character, un-killable super-spy Ethan Hunt, has been on the job...
REVIEW: <i>Teen Titans Go! To the Movies</i> Just for Kids (and Their Geek Parents)
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Teen Titans Go! To the Movies Just for Kids (and Their Geek Parents)

Jul 27th, 2018
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, the very meta big-screen adaptation of the Cartoon Network series Teen Titans Go!, is about a quintet of adolescent...
REVIEW: <i>Sorry to Bother You</i> Is Lying, It's Actually Quite Pleased to Bother You
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Sorry to Bother You Is Lying, It's Actually Quite Pleased to Bother You

Jul 27th, 2018
It would seem rapper and activist Boots Riley watched a few Michel Gondry movies (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind, etc.) and...
REVIEW: <i>Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again</i> Is Like the First <i>Mammia Mia!</i>, but Good
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Is Like the First Mammia Mia!, but Good

Jul 20th, 2018
Mamma Mia! was a badly written headache based on a badly written live musical, adapted for the screen by the same people who had staged it on...
REVIEW: <i>The Equalizer 2</i> Equalizes More Things
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: The Equalizer 2 Equalizes More Things

Jul 20th, 2018
At the end of The Equalizer (2014), you probably thought everything that needed equalizing had been taken care of. Wrong, dummy! The Equalizer...
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