Category: Short Reviews
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Money Monster
George Clooney and Julia Roberts are financial TV show hosts taken hostage while on-air in this cynically anti-Wall Street blockbuster.
This article was published on 05.19.16
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The Meddler
A bronze medal for meddling at best for Susan Sarandon's turn as an annoying busybody.
This article was published on 05.19.16
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Green Room
The film is surprisingly plodding for a terse, largely single-set potboiler.
This article was published on 05.12.16
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Captain America: Civil War
Lovers of the Marvel universe can never get too much, while the rest of us grumble about the Bach we could be listening to, the Tolstoy we could be reading.
This article was published on 05.12.16
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Mother’s Day
It’s smug, cloying, shameless, false and sickly-sweet enough to make Billy Graham want to vomit.
This article was published on 05.05.16
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A Hologram for a King
Ah, white people—there truly is no personal issue so crushingly banal that they can’t tell a soggy story about heroically overcoming it.
This article was published on 05.05.16
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Sing Street
The only drawback to this musically energized film is the mumbled, almost impenetrable Irish accents.
This article was published on 05.05.16
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Ratchet & Clank
When are the geniuses in Hollywood going to learn that no movie based on a video game has ever made a dime at the box office?
This article was published on 05.05.16
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Papa Hemingway in Cuba
Yet another suck-up biopic that tells the story of its subject through the eyes of a nearby nobody.
This article was published on 05.05.16
May 19, 2016
SN&R Vol 28 Issue 6
May 12, 2016
SN&R Vol 28 Issue 5
May 05, 2016
SN&R Vol 28 Issue 4