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There is a sliding scale of effectiveness for movies based on true stories. At the upper end are films like Lawrence...

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The Longest Ride, like all Nicholas Sparks movies, is overlong, contrived and blatant in its pandering. Yet by being...

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The redemption of The Fast and The Furious series, from critical punching bag to national treasure so late in the...

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Was prison rape even funny to begin with? The team behind Get Hard seems to think it’s the funniest thing in the...

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There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, there are atrocities committed against the intelligence of paying...

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There is a sneaky sort of rebelliousness in Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella—in the way it pushes back against the tide...

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From start to finish, everything about the Chappie experience is a pleasant surprise. Yes, Neill Blomkamp’s story of...

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No movie star is as big as Will Smith, and nobody knows that better than Smith himself. With a swagger that rarely...