“…the visual splendor of what’s now a nine-hour franchise is such a breathtaking work of cinematic craftsmanship that its cookie-cutter storytelling becomes entirely irrelevant.”
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“I cannot imagine how a Silent Night, Deadly Night remake could’ve gone any better than this.”
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“My issue with these movies is technical. These animatronics are simply too large and cumbersome to lend themselves to any entertaining on screen chaos.”
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“This is absolutely a worthy and thoughtful second outing for Nick and Judy, even if it does mostly adhere to formula.”
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“…by all metrics, Marty Supreme is so adrenaline-fueled that it feels like you’re about to overdose.”
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“It’s a beautiful cross between Inglourious Basterds and Tom and Jerry, and never fails to be an utter delight.”
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“…I worry that one of my favorite working directors might have reached his dog days.”
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“…’Predator: Badlands’ is an action-adventure blockbuster that serves as the saga’s biggest, boldest, and most ambitious entry yet.”
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A late dispatch on the 44th Vancouver International Film Festival.
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There are flashes of brilliance, and those flashes are beautiful, but for every transcendent shot of the beast traversing the arctic fields as the orange sun burns behind him, we get a clumsy depiction of badly rendered CGI wolves or video game-like bodies being thrown by the beast…it all looks a bit Netflix.
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“The juxtaposition between the personal and the collective in My Father’s Shadow is essential.”
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