Alci Rengifo
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Inside (2023) |
This is a strong film nevertheless, with Willem Dafoe dominating every frame with equal parts vulnerability and ensuing craziness, overshadowed by all-consuming penthouse. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Mar 23, 2023
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Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) |
Fury of the Gods feels crammed, yet empty. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Mar 21, 2023
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Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023) |
Luther: The Fallen Sun is an effective, atmospheric thriller that gives us a movie follow-up to what was already an engaging, atmospheric BBC serial. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Mar 13, 2023
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Scream VI (2023) |
Scream VI would have been a complete blast as pure satire but because these filmmakers know how to stage bloody action well, it still delivers as pure thriller. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Mar 13, 2023
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Creed III (2023) |
The movie has firmly established there is plenty of fight left in the franchise. On an even more important level, it establishes Michael B. Jordan as a talented director to follow. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Mar 06, 2023
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Cocaine Bear (2023) |
Cocaine Bear gets high on its own supply and devilishly tests how willing we are to get addicted to its madness. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Feb 27, 2023
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Return to Seoul (2022) |
An exquisitely moving portrait of seeking identity. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Feb 27, 2023
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) |
It is good moments overwhelmed by a bloated structure. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Feb 21, 2023
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) |
By the third act Blood and Honey starts losing any gas it had left with the endless stream of killings, never pausing to truly play around with the surreal heart of what Frake-Waterfield is attempting. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Feb 21, 2023
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Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) |
The routine becomes a bland, surprisingly mundane exercise in rom-com clichés, without the jokes. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Feb 13, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin (2023) |
A Knock at the Cabin is effectively unnerving filmmaking. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Feb 06, 2023
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Pamela, a Love Story (2023) |
Anderson makes her quirks, follies and triumphs enjoyable to hear. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Feb 02, 2023
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The Pale Blue Eye (2022) |
The Pale Blue Eye closes as a mystery made up of intriguing, alluring parts that don’t always come together fully, but on their own demonstrate the skill of everyone involved. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Jan 09, 2023
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M3GAN (2022) |
With laughs and scares, M3gan imagines the products turning on their owners with gleeful murder shining in electro eyes. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Jan 09, 2023
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A Man Called Otto (2022) |
By creating a curmudgeon with layers, Hanks reminds us that he is an actor of multiple ranges as well, who is capable of making us cringe and smile. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Jan 03, 2023
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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) |
At least the film delivers an admirable performance by Naomi Ackie, who channels an icon while hinting at the richer journey this could have been. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Dec 27, 2022
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Babylon (2022) |
This film throws an enticing party, but offers nothing for the morning after except the hangover of its length. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Dec 27, 2022
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) |
The Way of Water feels special in how it’s an astonishing spectacle made with the meticulous care of a serious craftsman. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Dec 19, 2022
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) |
The drama is rich but del Toro is still making a lively adventure full of great sights. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Dec 13, 2022
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Violent Night (2022) |
This is an absurdly entertaining holiday movie with the attitude of an action romp. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Dec 07, 2022
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Emancipation (2022) |
When it works it conveys how it must have felt to be running away from horror and seeking freedom... Emancipation is thus a strong effort that only leaves us wanting to know more. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Dec 07, 2022
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White Noise (2022) |
The result is a visually intriguing but exhaustingly unbalanced movie where we struggle to pinpoint what Baumbach wants to say with this film. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Dec 01, 2022
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) |
Johnson meticulously crafts a simple yet layered new mystery that becomes about the experience of watching the ensemble go nuts. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Nov 28, 2022
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Bones and All (2022) |
This is a genuinely romantic film, even as it serves horrifying courses in some of its frames. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Nov 21, 2022
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The Menu (2022) |
It may be snarky, but “The Menu” is also elegantly entertaining. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Nov 21, 2022
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The Fabelmans (2022) |
“The Fabelmans” works as an absorbing meditation on our roots and how the family tree, with all of its joys and bitter moments, shapes us. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Nov 13, 2022
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Armageddon Time (2022) |
The young boys at the center of the story are not wheels in a plot, but individuals that we are spending time with as they begin grappling with how real life is uglier and messier, only revealing itself when we really start growing up. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Nov 03, 2022
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Black Adam (2022) |
The biggest warning sign that DC is running out of any storytelling steam arrives with one big crash in “Black Adam,” which is another CGI-heavy punchathon lacking any substance. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Oct 23, 2022
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Ticket to Paradise (2022) |
Optimism and sunny laughter, along with charming bickering, make this one a sunny vacation for fans of this kind of romantic getaway. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Oct 23, 2022
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Till (2022) |
Till” makes the dark side of American history personal, bringing home the wrenching pain of an infamous racist crime through the eyes of a mother. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Oct 20, 2022
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Tár (2022) |
Tár’s fall from grace could lead to some overwrought melodrama with a lesser filmmaker. Instead, Field evokes that sensation of things getting from your control, never quite to be the same again. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Oct 13, 2022
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Amsterdam (2022) |
Somewhere along the way the story gets lost in a sluggish haze. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Oct 11, 2022
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Blonde (2022) |
Dominik proves you can make impressive cinema that might not inspire you to want to revisit it for a while. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Oct 04, 2022
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Bros (2022) |
The American rom-com is one of those acquired tastes in cinema and “Bros” delivers for the fan base. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Oct 02, 2022
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Don't Worry Darling (2022) |
Boasts expensive production credits and glossy cinematography, but at the service of a yawning plot you’ve seen many times before. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Sep 25, 2022
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Moonage Daydream (2022) |
It’s the kind of bold, experimental trip an artist like David Bowie deserves. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Sep 20, 2022
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Pearl (2022) |
It’s certainly a worthy prequel. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Sep 19, 2022
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Pinocchio (2022) |
“Pinocchio” is no different from a good band covering a standard without bringing much originality to the arrangement. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Sep 10, 2022
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Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) |
One of the summer’s most original films. It is fantastical and urgent. To love and lose can feel like a fairy tale, especially in a modern world that becomes ever so unreal. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Aug 28, 2022
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Beast (2022) |
“Beast” is a total exercise in absolute silliness, generating chuckles and genuine thrills in equal measure. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Aug 22, 2022
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Fall (2022) |
You can forgive the more comical aspects of “Fall” simply because it does an effective job at evoking the dizzying heights of its premise. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Aug 17, 2022
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Prey (2022) |
Stands on its own as an efficient, expectedly gory thriller. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Aug 09, 2022
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Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) |
Some of it is bloody entertaining like a classic slasher movie while the rest casts a hilariously biting mirror at the culture that has come to define Instagram and Tik Tok. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Aug 09, 2022
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Bullet Train (2022) |
There is a curious appeal to how you can almost ignore everything else going on and enjoy Pitt’s goofy, average Joe assassin along with the colorful images director David Leitch puts on the screen. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Aug 07, 2022
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DC League of Super-Pets (2022) |
Because the movie is an innocent, joyful animation clearly catering to the audience whose parents take movies like “Man of Steel” very seriously, it works as a small delight. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Aug 01, 2022
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Vengeance (2022) |
B.J. Novak somehow manages to package all of the blatant divisions and finer nuances of contemporary America in “Vengeance.” - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Jul 31, 2022
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The Gray Man (2022) |
Somehow two directors who have defined blockbuster genre filmmaking recently can’t get a firm grip on this caper. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Jul 25, 2022
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Nope (2022) |
Peele has not become completely shallow. In a form more muddled than his best films but still effective, “Nope” is about our drive towards the spectacular. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Jul 24, 2022
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Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022) |
The animation is just good enough while the jokes are a quick distraction for the kids. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Jul 18, 2022
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Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) |
There is a reason why the novel has grabbed such a broad audience, but you won’t find it here. - Entertainment Voice
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| Posted Jul 16, 2022
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