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Luca – Review

After giving us all an existential crisis with Soul, the folks at Pixar have taken things down a few notches with Luca. It’s a charming story about two boys - Luca (Jacob Tremblay) and Alberto (Jack Dylan...
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The Happytime Murders – Review

The conceit of The Happytime Murders might have made a half decent Saturday Night Live sketch but a good, even passable, feature film it does not. Most frustrating is the sheer laziness of the script. Todd...
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Life of the Party – Review

Do Melissa McCarthy movies get less funny as she gets more famous? Life of the Party, McCarthy’s latest collaboration with her writer-director husband Ben Falcone, suggests yes. What sounds like a riotous,...
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The Emoji Movie – Review

The Emoji Movie struggles to know its audience from the very beginning. It wants to be an earnest film about the wonders of the inside of a smartphone, but also wants to mock teenagers for depending on them....
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The Angry Birds Movie – Review

A mobile game most people use to pass time on the toilet is not the ripest material for cinematic adaptation. The writers of The Angry Birds Movie know this, and their solution is to throw as many jokes as...