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Cyrano – Review

With at least eleven faithful and a dozen loose adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac committed to film, Wright’s return to top romantic form stands out as a musical. The plot remains the same: soldier and poet...
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I Care a Lot – Review

Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike) wants everyone – sworn on God before the court – to know her heart is gold. Polished, honeyed phrases say all the right things: she is worried about her elderly charges, she...
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The Boss – Review

The Boss is at best a continuation of Get Hard, that ill-though-through Will Ferrell (who incidentally produces The Boss) “comedy" of yesteryear, in which our cretinous central character is jailed despite...
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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...
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Pixels – Review

Pixels is probably fine if you have nothing better to do. Narrative inconsistencies and total changes within the film’s own logic seem to come out of nowhere every few minutes – though I guess none of...