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Clueless Movie Reviews: “Getaway”
Monotonous, humorless, and at times incomprehensibly edited, Getaway might be a little fun for Ford Mustang aficionados and adrenaline junkies, but for everyone else will inspire nothing but the urge...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “Riddick”
In Riddick, writer/director David Twohy and star Vin Diesel return to the formula that made Diesel’s first outing as the anti-hero Richard B. Riddick, Pitch Black, an enduring cult sci-fi favorite:...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “The Family”
Like the former mafia clan that is its narrative focus, The Family is charming, clever, vicious when it has to be, and fun throughout. Fans of The Sopranos and DeNiro’s other gangster-related work will...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “Prisoners”
With an A-list cast, a hot-button premise ripped from today’s news headlines, and a well-respected, Oscar-nominated filmmaker in the director’s chair, Prisoners has a great deal going for it in terms...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “RUSH”
When all is said and done, RUSH will stand among Ron Howard’s most acclaimed films, and that is, of course, saying quite a bit. Built with his trademark eye and passion for historical detail and his...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “Gravity”
Gravity is a breathtaking, harrowing experience of a film, partly thanks to the incredible special effects work utilized to bring the film’s setting to life in a realistic way, but mostly thanks to a...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “Captain Phillips”
However much it may or may not be true to how the events it depicts happened in real life, Captain Phillips is a taut, gripping drama that effectively brings to life on screen the nature of 21st...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “Escape Plan”
It’s fair to say that Escape Plan is Sylvester Stallone’s most coherent, most consistent, and most enjoyable action film in years. Of course, that’s not saying a great deal. The differences here: the...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa”
Fans of the Jackass series and the previous films will no doubt love Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa. What it may lack in the sadism-for-humor’s-sake that’s practically a trademark for the previous...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “Last Vegas”
Last Vegas is hardly the finest work to ever come from the ensemble cast it features, and thankfully, it doesn’t aspire to be. Instead, it aims at delivering a whole lot of charm and fun via a lot of...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “Ender’s Game”
Ender’s Game has eye-popping visuals and compelling story elements that can compete with any seen in the glut of science fiction films that hit theaters this year. But what makes it stand apart from...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “Thor: The Dark World”
Though it has its entertaining moments, most of which feature Tom Hiddleston as the mischievous Loki, Thor: The Dark World fails to soar to the same heights as its 2011 predecessor. To paraphrase the...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug”
Easily the weakest of Peter Jackson’s cinematic epics set in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth fantasy realm, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug often feels leaden and belabored, as it lacks any of the...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “Saving Mr. Banks”
Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks are both in top form in Saving Mr. Banks, as the two multiple Oscar winners command the screen in the roles of real life Mary Poppins author P. L. Travers and the legendary...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “Her”
Her is an unflinchingly, unapologetically complex and challenging film, and it’s an acting tour de force for Joaquin Phoenix, who carries this film from start to finish with a performance that’s...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “The Legend Of Hercules”
Clash of the Titans without the budget, Gladiator without the ambition and spectacle, 300 and Immortals without the style and nerve, God of War without the wicked fun, The Legend of Hercules imitates...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit”
Tightly-plotted, intense, and intelligent, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is a solid, engaging thriller that earns its place alongside the previous film adaptations of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan series in terms...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “The LEGO® Movie”
The LEGO® Movie is credited to four writers, and it feels like it. While the film’s LEGO-brick derived animation is a joy to watch from start to finish, and the characters and their banter are cute and...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “The Monuments Men”
The Monuments Men is precisely the sort of film the industry is coming to expect from George Clooney when he’s not in “blockbuster superstar” mode, and when he opts to tackle writing and directing...
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Clueless Movie Reviews: “RoboCop”
The new RoboCop is as ambitious a re-visioning of a successful franchise as we’ve seen in years, because it dares to be different from its source. Rather than emulate the ultra-violence and dystopian...
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