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David Hiltbrand

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Sometimes They Come Back (1991) 67% B EDIT “The dramatic moments in between the frights are flabby. But director Tom McLoughlin keeps the essential concept lashed together pretty tightly.” – People Magazine Jan 15, 2020 Full Review The Tommyknockers (1993) 35% B EDIT “Director John Power establishes good pacing, as the mounting suspense alternates with scenes of banal normalcy and campy humor.” – People Magazine Jan 15, 2020 Full Review Stephen King's 'The Langoliers' (1995) 48% C- EDIT “In this two-parter, humankind has gone missing, but so too have all the elements of surprise and suspense. For a scary movie, this is incredibly banal.” – People Magazine Jan 15, 2020 Full Review Lantern Hill (1990) B+ EDIT “For filmmaker Kevin Sullivan, this is another handsome adaptation of a Lucy Maud Montgomery novel, as lustrous as his Anne of Green Gables. The entire cast turns in affecting performances.” – People Magazine Sep 26, 2019 Full Review Still Not Quite Human (1992) C EDIT “For [Alan] Thicke, this is the role of a lifetime: The Canadian actor plays a robot with remarkable conviction.” – People Magazine Sep 17, 2019 Full Review Cloud 9 (2014) EDIT “The slow-motion action scenes are exciting... Add to that the snowy chalet's wonderfully cinematic setting, and Cloud 9 is quite winning - even if your daddy doesn't own the mountain.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 17, 2019 Full Review Aziz Ansari: Buried Alive (2013) 100% EDIT “He's a lively and engaging performer.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jul 17, 2019 Full Review Ken Burns: The Civil War (2015) 100% EDIT “An extraordinary, encyclopedic study of the bloody battle between the states. Documentarian Ken Burns has woven together an engrossingly detailed narrative, interviews with historians, an amazing collection of archival photographs” – People Magazine May 24, 2019 Full Review The Death of the Incredible Hulk (1990) 20% C EDIT “It's a feckless little outing for the Mean Green Machine, with a ridiculous romantic entanglement. Plus, at two hours, this cheap production is about 45 minutes too long.” – People Magazine Jun 29, 2018 Full Review Seventh Son (2014) 12% 1.5/4 EDIT “Seventh Son may try to harness alchemy and witchcraft, but sadly, there's no magic here.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 6, 2015 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) 80% 2.5/4 EDIT “You can tell the script is short on punch lines by how often it resorts to poop and fart jokes, the last refuge of the desperate gag writer.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 5, 2015 Full Review Project Almanac (2015) 38% 2/4 EDIT “The premise, which initially has a certain interior logic, grows implausible and then nonsensical.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 31, 2015 Full Review The Boy Next Door (2015) 12% 1/4 EDIT “This isn't a very demanding role for Lopez, but she still fails to carry it off. In fact, nothing about this film is convincing. It all feels notably artificial.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 23, 2015 Full Review Taken 3 (2014) 13% 1/4 EDIT “Nothing gets taken here except your ticket money.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 10, 2015 Full Review Unbroken (2014) 53% 1.5/4 EDIT “Unbroken is a fitting title for this excruciating cinematic treatment of the flyboy's ordeal. It plays like an endless, unrelieved gauntlet of suffering, an onslaught untempered by grace or redemption.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 25, 2014 Full Review Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013) 87% EDIT “Mostly what you get is a chronicle of tedious routine carried out in a killing climate. That gives this documentary a flavor that is strong and genuine. Just not very appealing.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Nov 28, 2014 Full Review Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) 35% 2/4 EDIT “The Horrible Bosses comedy franchise is like a recipe full of ingredients that you'd think would go well together. But the taste ends up being off anyway.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Nov 26, 2014 Full Review Dumb and Dumber To (2014) 31% 1/4 EDIT “The film clearly aspires to (three) stoogery with these lojinks. And it still aims too low.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Nov 14, 2014 Full Review Big Hero 6 (2014) 90% 2.5/4 EDIT “Gorgeous and disturbing, Big Hero 6 is a departure for Disney: a film targeted at older kids, and the studio's first venture into straight-up comic book culture.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Nov 7, 2014 Full Review Citizenfour (2014) 96% 2.5/4 EDIT “This is a complicated story, but it's efficiently laid out by Poitras in this smartly edited project.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 31, 2014 Full Review John Wick (2014) 86% 2.5/4 EDIT “Director Chad Stahelski handles the frenzied fusillade with flair. The action scenes in John Wick, while brutal, are also rather breathtaking.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 24, 2014 Full Review Dracula Untold (2014) 26% 2.5/4 EDIT “The idea is to humanize one of the most fearful monsters in the Western crypt. But Dracula Untold goes way overboard, past domestication and into canonization.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 10, 2014 Full Review I Am Ali (2014) 65% 1.5/4 EDIT “Unless you have an insatiable appetite for goo-goo father-daughter talks, the recordings are tedious.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 10, 2014 Full Review Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014) 62% 2/4 EDIT “It's a film where you start chuckling as soon as someone says something like, "I just want everything to be perfect tonight."” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 10, 2014 Full Review The Identical (2014) 6% 1/4 EDIT “Trading strictly in visual and narrative cliches, The Identical is so solemn and silly that at times you could swear it was a lampoon.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 5, 2014 Full Review
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