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Ben Coleman

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Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) 68% EDIT “But despite lurching into theaters a full decade after the original, Zombieland: Double Tap avoids those pitfalls while delivering a suitably zany Zombieland experience with the easy charm of an off-brand Mike Judge picaresque.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Oct 24, 2019 Full Review Gemini Man (2019) 27% EDIT “Ang Lee's Gemini Man isn't a bad movie so much as it's a missed opportunity.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Oct 14, 2019 Full Review Angel Has Fallen (2019) 38% EDIT “For a franchise that's always felt at least a decade removed from relevance, Angel Has Fallen ends up being an intense, surprisingly of-the-moment action thriller.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2019 Full Review Good Boys (2019) 81% EDIT “Is any of this good comedy? Hard to say. I'm not even sure it's possible to make an entire movie about middle-school boners, but an attempt has certainly been made here.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 16, 2019 Full Review Missing Link (2019) 88% EDIT “It's not a good look-and it's especially unfair to Missing Link's artists and animators, who have their timeless work saddled with a script that already feels outdated.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Apr 11, 2019 Full Review The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) 90% EDIT “Thankfully, writer/director Joe Cornish brings the same sublime toolbox he used for the gleefully anarchic Attack the Block, transforming the stultifyingly bland public spaces of contemporary Britain into a fantastical playground.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Jan 28, 2019 Full Review Venom (2018) 31% EDIT “Venom is the Catwoman of toxic masculinity. It's bad.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Oct 7, 2018 Full Review Searching (2018) 92% EDIT “What makes Searching more than a gimmick is how well it captures the limited but instantly recognizable emotional language of computer use.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Sep 4, 2018 Full Review The Meg (2018) 47% EDIT “The problem with The Meg isn't that it's dumb, it's that it isn't dumb enough.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 13, 2018 Full Review Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) 98% EDIT “In terms of pure action cinema, Fallout absolutely sings.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Jul 26, 2018 Full Review Skyscraper (2018) 48% EDIT “And because Johnson has the skills to carry the weight, the fact that Skyscraper is kinda dumb and Johnson's feats of strength are kinda arbitrary isn't a bug, it's a feature.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Jul 14, 2018 Full Review Hotel Artemis (2018) 57% EDIT “Hotel Artemis is more of a loose game of pool than a tightly wound clock, content to bounce its characters off of one another and see what happens.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Jun 7, 2018 Full Review Beirut (2018) 81% EDIT “A perfectly serviceable airport novel of a movie, Beirut has enough espionage-like twists to keep you occupied for 109 minutes and mostly distracted from the fact its best parts never fully develop.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Apr 12, 2018 Full Review Rampage (2018) 51% EDIT “It's exceptionally dumb, exceptionally fun, and weirdly faithful to its 16-bit source material.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Apr 12, 2018 Full Review The Leisure Seeker (2017) 38% EDIT “But stick with The Leisure Seeker and you'll be rewarded with something special, as [Helen] Mirren and [Donald] Sutherland begin filling in the pieces of their characters' lives.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Mar 22, 2018 Full Review Last Flag Flying (2017) 77% EDIT “The end result is a stellar ensemble wrangling heavy emotional beats and novelistic dialogue.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Nov 15, 2017 Full Review Thank You for Your Service (2017) 77% EDIT “The film shifts between a number of subplots and perspective, some of which are more effectively rendered than others-but when the film lands, it lands like a sledgehammer.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Oct 27, 2017 Full Review The Foreigner (2017) 66% EDIT “It's a chance for Chan to demonstrate his dramatic talents to a Western audience-which may take a bit of getting used to” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Oct 11, 2017 Full Review The Mountain Between Us (2017) 39% EDIT “While some of the dialogue gets a bit clunky, there's a lot to like in how Elba and Winslet go about delivering it.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Oct 5, 2017 Full Review A Cure for Wellness (2016) 42% EDIT “A Cure for Wellness is haunting, gorgeous, and masterfully disgusting. In a strangely subtle way, it's one the weirdest films I've seen in ages.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review Donald Cried (2016) 89% EDIT “Where Donald Cried really works is in situating the audience firmly in third-wheel status, gradually revealing a more nuanced and toxic relationship between the two leads.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review It Comes at Night (2017) 88% EDIT “It Comes at Night balances on the knife edge between hope and despair, counterweighting the dire nature of its world with genuinely moving moments of warmth.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review Hacksaw Ridge (2016) 84% EDIT “We each decide where we draw the line, and while Hacksaw Ridge is an interesting film, it isn't so good that I'd suggest you cross yours.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review Deepwater Horizon (2016) 82% EDIT “Despite solid craftsmanship and good intentions, Deepwater Horizon falters under the weight of the very real, very recent history it depicts.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review Criminal (2016) 30% EDIT “Criminal is the answer to a question no one asked: "What if someone took the basic plot of Face/Off and made a dour espionage thriller out of it?"” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review
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