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[Review] The Lazarus Effect

I came upon a bittersweet revelation while watching Olivia Wilde wreak paranormal havoc on her co-workers in The Lazarus Effect: the tried-and-true horror trope...

[Review] Focus

You know that moment in a con movie where you're shown an elaborate sequence full of subtle background action without knowing exactly what's happening until the...

[Review] Digging Up The Marrow

One look at Ray Wise, with his creased, worried face and troubled pale-blue eyes, and you’d believe he’s actually seen a hidden underground world of monsters. T...

[Review] The DUFF

The DUFF, an earnest high-school comedy that mostly feels like the dried-out, overheated leftovers of John Hughes, wants to deal in "the truth," using a ridicul...

[Review] McFarland, USA

I entered the theater expecting McFarland, USA to be a Million Dollar Arm redux with Latinos in place of Indians. What director Niki Caro actually delivered was...

[Review] Hot Tub Time Machine 2

As far as absurdly dumb, high-concept comedies go, 2010's Hot Tub Time Machine mostly hit its mark, riffing on everything 80's while cramming in as many crude (...

[Berlin Review] 13 Minutes

On the 8th November 1939, two months after the start of World War II, the German carpenter Georg Elser (Christian Friedel) carried out an assassination attempt ...