David Riedel

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Film review: After Earth

Will Smith and M. Night Shyamalan made a movie together. See, they’re both into patterns. After all, in a recent...

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Wow. Where does one begin? The insipid dialogue? Paul Walker’s non-presence? A plot that makes almost no sense?...

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A great trick director J.J. Abrams and screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman pulled with Star Trek (2009) was...

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Now that The Great Gatsby is out, there’s just one relevant question: To whom is this film targeted? It can’t be...

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Hollywood is content to blow shit up in the months before May and after August in a way it never used to be, but the...

Film review: Oblivion

It may seem strange to suggest that a movie about the survival of the human race doesn’t have high stakes, but...

Film review: 42

Thankfully, 42 isn’t sanctimonious and Jackie isn’t sage-like. From the movie’s perspective, he’s just a boring guy...

Film Review: Evil Dead

Gory resurrection If you see only one bodily dismemberment movie this year, see Evil Dead. If you see only one demon...

Play ball! (On screen, that is!)

It’s spring, and you know what that means: A young man’s fancy turns lightly to thoughts of love. Tennyson doesn’t...

Film review: The Host

Forget that this story recalls not only Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but also Robert Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters...