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David Frese

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) 91% 2.5/4 EDIT “The Last Jedi, however, opens up some new possibilities. It doesn't provide a ton of satisfying answers, but it creates some interesting questions. And it manages to make "Star Wars" feel new again.” – Kansas City Star Dec 12, 2017 Full Review Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) 92% 3/4 EDIT “Ultimately, "Spider-Man: Homecoming" manages to be surprising, uplifting and heroic - all without letting our hero emerge too triumphant.” – Kansas City Star Jul 6, 2017 Full Review Alien: Covenant (2017) 65% 3/4 EDIT “It's scary and fun and leaves us looking forward to the next chapter.” – Kansas City Star May 18, 2017 Full Review Logan (2017) 93% EDIT “Logan is the violent, brutal and gory R-rated Wolverine movie 40-something fanboys have always wanted. It's most definitely for grown-ups. It's also very, very good.” – Kansas City Star Mar 1, 2017 Full Review The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) 89% 3/4 EDIT “Even though it's squarely targeting kids and the parents who accompany them, Lego Batman serves as a refreshing palate-cleanser after the dour Batman v Superman and the often inchoate Suicide Squad.” – Kansas City Star Feb 8, 2017 Full Review Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) 84% 2.5/4 EDIT “Even though the film is much grungier and more realistic than all the previous chapters, this corner of the "Star Wars" universe still is a thrilling place to visit.” – Kansas City Star Dec 13, 2016 Full Review Moana (2016) 95% 3/4 EDIT “What the story lacks in boldness ... is compensated in design and animation. Water, hair and gravity all flow naturally. The sunny island environment radiates happiness. And it does feature some clever moments of slapstick comedy.” – Kansas City Star Nov 23, 2016 Full Review Moonlight (2016) 98% 3/4 EDIT “"Moonlight" is a poetic and poignant story of immense and oppressive loneliness.” – Kansas City Star Nov 10, 2016 Full Review Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) 37% 2/4 EDIT “The Jack Reacher novels are eminently entertaining. If literary snobbery has kept you from picking one up, stop it already. The books' joyous mayhem transcends guilty pleasure.” – Kansas City Star Oct 21, 2016 Full Review The Girl on the Train (2016) 44% 3/4 EDIT “Fabulous performances and a multilayered narrative tighten the screws into a mysterious and ultimately satisfying thriller.” – Kansas City Star Oct 7, 2016 Full Review Suicide Squad (2016) 26% 2.5/4 EDIT “It starts with a bang, ends in a yawn and features a whole lot of "What the ...?" along the way.” – Kansas City Star Aug 4, 2016 Full Review The Legend of Tarzan (2016) 36% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's a summer movie! Save the serious stuff for September.” – Kansas City Star Jun 30, 2016 Full Review The Fundamentals of Caring (2016) 80% 3/4 EDIT “At the core, this is just another road trip movie, but it bends expectations enough to be cleverly pleasing.” – Kansas City Star Jun 23, 2016 Full Review X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) 47% 2/4 EDIT “Feels like an exercise of obligation, just another item on 20th Century Fox's spring honey-do list: Replace the batteries in the smoke alarms, release another X-Men movie, clean the gutters. Rarely has the end of the world felt so inconsequential.” – Kansas City Star May 26, 2016 Full Review Captain America: Civil War (2016) 90% 3/4 EDIT “"Captain America: Civil War" is for every little kid who ever bashed one action figure into another while saying "Pew! P-Pew! Kapow-shuh-WOOOOSH!!" In other words, it's nearly perfect.” – Kansas City Star May 5, 2016 Full Review Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) 28% 2/4 EDIT “That rare movie that makes you anxious to see the next installment only because it surely has to be better than what you just watched.” – Kansas City Star Mar 23, 2016 Full Review Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) 93% 3/4 EDIT “The first thing I thought as the credits rolled was that I can't wait to see it again.” – Kansas City Star Dec 16, 2015 Full Review In the Heart of the Sea (2015) 42% 2/4 EDIT “"In the Heart of the Sea" could have worked. But director Ron Howard tries too hard in some places and not enough in others.” – Kansas City Star Dec 10, 2015 Full Review The Peanuts Movie (2015) 87% 3.5/4 EDIT “The Peanuts Movie manages to nail the strip's comic timing and play its core sentiment -- a childlike desire for acceptance -- to near perfection.” – Kansas City Star Nov 12, 2015 Full Review Spectre (2015) 63% 2/4 EDIT “Well before it ends, Spectre becomes a cartoonish parody of itself.” – Kansas City Star Nov 12, 2015 Full Review How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “"How to Train Your Dragon 2" rises above its animated peers with more troubling themes, outstanding character design and innovative "camera" movements. And it rarely, if ever, takes the easy way out.” – Kansas City Star Nov 10, 2015 Full Review Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) 48% 2/4 EDIT “Despite its change of venue, "Secret" covers all the ground trod in the original but loses any sense of wonder.” – Kansas City Star Nov 10, 2015 Full Review The End of the Tour (2015) 92% 4/4 EDIT “Jason Segel is so good in "The End of the Tour" you can almost smell him.” – Kansas City Star Nov 10, 2015 Full Review Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) 75% 2.5/4 EDIT “There's still a thrill in seeing all of these comic book characters together in a movie. Even when it's just Ulysses Klaw.” – Kansas City Star Apr 30, 2015 Full Review About Last Night (2014) 68% 2.5/4 EDIT “"About Last Night" is dirty, sexy and, for the most part, a lot of fun.” – Kansas City Star Feb 13, 2014 Full Review
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