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Trolls
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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DreamWorks Animation's trolls, with their candy-vomit hair and bizarre designs, scream originality.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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The Dressmaker
(2015)
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Jacob Oller
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The Dressmaker wagers that its audience might only get out to see one film in theaters this year, so it should cram all the genres they love into its two-hour runtime.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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Ice Age: Collision Course
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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Not surreal enough to transcend its sub-Michael Bay asteroid plot and ABC Family prehistoric problems, Collision Course still brings enough weirdness to stay lively.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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Jason Bourne
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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Greengrass can no longer create an action movie; hell, he can't even complete an action.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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The Magnificent Seven
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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Fuqua's Old West is still a bit too narratively metered and self-important to comfortably house the rambunctiously fun bronco trying to buck its philosophical rider.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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Finding Dory
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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The sequel revisits many of the jokes of the original in an inoffensive yet ultimately unfulfilling way, making the case that Pixar should stick with originals.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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London Has Fallen
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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That some people will truly enjoy this movie is as damning a cultural signifier as anything.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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X-Men: Apocalypse
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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Bryan Singer seems like he listened to the reception of his last entry in the series, X-Men: Days of Future Past, as blithely and briefly as he could.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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Gods of Egypt
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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The effort it takes to sit through this movie strains the eyes, the intellect, and the attention span.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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Captain America: Civil War
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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Most of the film's pleasures come from dorky pipsqueak Tom Holland taking up the mantle of Spider-Man and joining the fight between Avengers factions.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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The Divergent Series: Allegiant
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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Allegiant gives us a secondhand account of a similar tale watered down by artless interpretation.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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Everybody Wants Some!!
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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Everybody Wants Some!! brings Linklater's lackadaisical, narcotic strut at its highest potency to a Texas college baseball team in the heart of the '80s.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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The Adderall Diaries
(2015)
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Jacob Oller
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The trouble with watching someone fail to write is that we are sentenced to their procrastination through no fault of our own.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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10 Cloverfield Lane
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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Excellently shot, with cramped meaning squeezed into every frame, it plays with viewers like only a good film can.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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The Finest Hours
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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When not aboard the squall-navigating ships, The Finest Hours succumbs to its back-of-the-box-recipe script.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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How to Be Single
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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It feels like a season of a generic soap was shoved together and edited for time.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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Risen
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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Risen...wavers from cheery to gruesome to absurd and lands in the differentiated realm of oddball fun.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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13 Hours tells an exciting story in the most boring way possible, like a patronizing picture book describing warfare.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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The Girl on the Train
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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The Girl on the Train is a jumbled mystery with cartoonish sensibilities.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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Sing
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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Sure, they can all sing. But that's not really the point.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
(2015)
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Jacob Oller
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The same vague, mystical wonder - accompanied by the twittering flutes of John Williams - fills the screen that ran imaginations wild in the '70s.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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Creed
(2015)
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Jacob Oller
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Coogler spins and remixes the original Rocky montages and symbolism into Creed's boxing Bildungsroman, balancing the tenuous struggle between fan service and personality.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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Edwards has a keen sense of awe and little regard for the humans underfoot.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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La La Land
(2016)
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Jacob Oller
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La La Land shows us a Hollywood fable of failure and desperation dressed up with a fresh coat of new-wave earnestness and nostalgia.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
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