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REVIEW: Quiet Zombies in <i>The Night Eats the World</i> (Fantasia Festival)
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Quiet Zombies in The Night Eats the World (Fantasia Festival)

Jul 13th, 2018
(Screened at the 2018 Fantasia Festival; now playing in U.S. theaters and VOD) The Night Eats the World ("La nuit a dévoré le monde") has a...
REVIEW: <i>Ant-Man</i> AND <i>the Wasp</i>? In This Economy?
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Ant-Man AND the Wasp? In This Economy?

Jul 6th, 2018
As those still weeping over Avengers: Infinity War will tell you between muffled sobs, there's big doin's afoot in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But...
REVIEW: Fourth <i>Purge</i> Movie <i>The First Purge</i> Is Prequel to First <i>Purge</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Fourth Purge Movie The First Purge Is Prequel to First Purge

Jul 4th, 2018
The question we had when The Purge came out in 2013 was: Wait, how does this work? In this near-future version of America, there's a 12-hour period...
REVIEW: <i>Uncle Drew</i> Has NBA Stars Clowning Around, Nothing Else
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Uncle Drew Has NBA Stars Clowning Around, Nothing Else

Jun 29th, 2018
Uncle Drew, a basketball comedy directed by Charles Stone III (Drumline, Mr. 3000), ought to be about the title character, a septuagenarian who was...
REVIEW: <i>Sicario: Day of the Soldado</i> Nearly As Bad As Its Title
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Sicario: Day of the Soldado Nearly As Bad As Its Title

Jun 29th, 2018
In Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the grim, unpleasant sequel to the 2015 film that grappled with the morality of the drug war, there is no more...
REVIEW: Unlike Life, <i>Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom</i> Does Not Find a Way
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Unlike Life, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Does Not Find a Way

Jun 22nd, 2018
Bad news, everyone: dinosaurs are boring now. People were so preoccupied with whether they could make a fifth Jurassic Park movie, they didn't stop...
REVIEW: <i>The Catcher Was a Spy</i> -- and That's All We Ever Learn
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: The Catcher Was a Spy -- and That's All We Ever Learn

Jun 22nd, 2018
The Catcher Was a Spy begins with onscreen titles telling us that after the Nazis split the atom and put Dr. Heisenberg on the job of developing a...
REVIEW: Not-Quite-<i>Incredibles 2</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Not-Quite-Incredibles 2

Jun 15th, 2018
When The Incredibles came out, in November 2004, it was Pixar's sixth movie and only about the ninth superhero movie in the modern era (which...
REVIEW: <i>Tag</i> Yourself, I'm Disappointed
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Tag Yourself, I'm Disappointed

Jun 15th, 2018
Tag turns an outrageous-yet-true story into one that's just outrageous, with details that couldn't possibly be true. Based on a 2013 Wall Street...
REVIEW: <i>SuperFly</i> Remake Takes the 'sploitation out of Blaxploitation
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: SuperFly Remake Takes the 'sploitation out of Blaxploitation

Jun 13th, 2018
SuperFly, a modern-day remake of the 1972 blaxploitation classic -- about a successful cocaine dealer of color who wants to get out of the business...
REVIEW: <i>Hearts Beat Loud</i> Presents Nick Offerman As Dad
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Hearts Beat Loud Presents Nick Offerman As Dad

Jun 12th, 2018
With a hint of wistfulness to give it some weight, Hearts Beat Loud is a happy, sunshiny movie about saying goodbye, letting go, and collaborating...
REVIEW: <i>Hotel Artemis</i> Not Exactly 4-Star Accommodations, But You'll Survive
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Hotel Artemis Not Exactly 4-Star Accommodations, But You'll Survive

Jun 8th, 2018
The John Wick movies have a hotel, The Continental, that's exclusively for assassins, where a code of conduct (e.g., no "working" on the premises)...
REVIEW: <i>Ocean's Eight</i> Is More Efficient, Not Quite As Much Fun
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Ocean's Eight Is More Efficient, Not Quite As Much Fun

Jun 8th, 2018
Remember how Danny Ocean needed 10 friends (and then 11, and then 12) to pull off his heists? In Ocean's Eight, his sister, Debbie (Sandra Bullock),...
REVIEW: Come Weep Gently with <i>Won't You Be My Neighbor?</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Come Weep Gently with Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Jun 8th, 2018
I didn't grow up with Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (or Sesame Street, for that matter). We didn't have cable yet when I was that age, and our TV...
REVIEW: <i>Hereditary</i>: Hope You Inherited a Change of Underwear
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Hereditary: Hope You Inherited a Change of Underwear

Jun 6th, 2018
Would you like to watch Toni Collette have a nervous breakdown for two hours? Hereditary is many things -- a haunting story about a disintegrating...
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