Christian Holub
Christian Holub's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Entertainment Weekly
Movies reviews only
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The Flash (2023) |
It's well-trod territory at this point, even for a speedster. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jun 06, 2023
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) |
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse totally exceeds expectations when it comes to visual aesthetic and character development. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jun 01, 2023
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Fast X (2023) |
No question this franchise is silly...but having one character constantly ridiculing the others and making mockery of everything feels maybe a little too on-the-nose. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) |
It's always nice when superhero movies remember that they're supposed to be about saving lives rather than taking them, and GotG 3 often plays like a celebration of life — even for animals that can't talk or fly spaceships. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted May 04, 2023
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) |
It's all quite fun, with a good sense of humor and a consistent computer-animated aesthetic -- plus, at 90 minutes including credits, it's short, sweet, and over before anything can get annoying. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Apr 04, 2023
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) |
The fantasy elements are played straight, and the central story is a relatable romp about how people who fail as individuals can still succeed together. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Mar 30, 2023
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The King's Man (2021) |
For all its faults, The King's Man is at least hilariously bad in the way that emotionless, made-by-committee blockbusters like Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker are not. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Dec 14, 2021
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Encanto (2021) |
A smiling tale about familial reconciliation and learning to see your relatives for who they are rather than who you wish they were is never unwelcome. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Nov 30, 2021
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) |
Intentional or not, Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a stark reminder of how much of modern American culture consists of excavating the ruins of past glories. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Oct 09, 2021
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Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021) |
Unfortunately, director Robert Schwentke (RED, R.I.P.D.) uses a lot of razzle-dazzle, and too often the quick cuts and close-ups obscure the action rather than highlight it. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jul 22, 2021
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Mortal Kombat (2021) |
Why so much screen time was wasted talking about a tournament at all is left unclear. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Apr 22, 2021
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Chaos Walking (2021) |
As far as pandemic releases from director Doug Liman go, Chaos Walking definitely has a more interesting premise than Locked Down. But that doesn't mean you should be rushing back to theaters to see it. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Mar 03, 2021
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Monster Hunter (2020) |
A film that doesn't even bother to wrap up its own story, instead gesturing vaguely at a hypothetical sequel, is telling you exactly how much you should care about it. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Dec 17, 2020
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Wolfwalkers (2020) |
Wolfwalkers deserves a new level of praise for the way it takes previous Cartoon Saloon themes (such as the porous relationship between man and nature) to new heights of artistry. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Nov 21, 2020
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Spies in Disguise (2019) |
It's a proud piece of family entertainment with a good heart, an eye for inventive action, and a delightfully wacky sense of humor. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Dec 16, 2019
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Frozen II (2019) |
Frozen 2 makes a valiant effort to live up to its predecessor, but can't escape its shadow. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Nov 14, 2019
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Lucy in the Sky (2019) |
Lucy in the Sky has plenty of arresting cosmic visuals, and on the other hand tries to portray a human drama about an overachiever pushed to her breaking point. But those two halves never cohere into a whole. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Oct 02, 2019
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Abominable (2019) |
Abominable's themes and arc are familiar kids' movie fare, with only one real plot twist. But its reverent attitude toward nature and wonder is a welcome addition to the cartoon canon. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Sep 25, 2019
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The Fanatic (2019) |
The Fanatic has contempt for both its characters and audience. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Sep 03, 2019
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Louis C.K.: 2017 (2017) |
The change of clothing and role hasn't led to C.K. going soft. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jul 17, 2019
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Child's Play (2019) |
By giving Chucky a reason to kill, the new movie's arc can't help but dilute his menace a bit. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jun 20, 2019
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Tito and the Birds (2018) |
Tito and the Birds combines different art styles in a way that demonstrates the radical possibilities of animated storytelling. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jan 25, 2019
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Zoe (2018) |
This is a movie that casts Christina Aguilera as a robot and yet still manages to be boring. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted May 02, 2018
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Zama (2017) |
As it goes, Zama ponders the unanswerable question of what kind of life, exactly, is worth living. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Apr 20, 2018
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Sherlock Gnomes (2018) |
Sherlock Gnomes doesn't quite have the originality and spark to make it a pop-culture phenomenon. Yet it's still an enjoyable family adventure with a solid message. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Mar 23, 2018
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The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) |
The Man Who Invented Christmas is mostly a story about overcoming writer's block. That sounds boring, and it surely would be unbearable if anyone but Stevens was in the role. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Nov 21, 2017
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Thank You for Your Service (2017) |
Thank You For Service is ... successful at capturing the Iraq War's effects on American lives. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Oct 26, 2017
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The Foreigner (2017) |
I'm not sure anyone has plans to turn this into a franchise, but I certainly want to see more from this Chan-aissance. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Oct 13, 2017
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Flatliners (2017) |
We live in an age of unnecessary remakes - but the new Flatliners movie, by Danish director Niels Arden Oplev, has the distinction of being perhaps the most unnecessary of them all. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Sep 30, 2017
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The LEGO NINJAGO Movie (2017) |
This mini-franchise may be running out of steam. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Sep 20, 2017
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Rings (2017) |
Rings embodies a common problem of attempted franchise revivals: indecision about its intentions. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Feb 03, 2017
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Becoming Warren Buffett (2017) |
A great documentary needs some tension -- whether between the subjects, or between the subject and the director, or something else. Unfortunately, it's lacking here. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jan 30, 2017
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Monster Trucks (2016) |
After a long gestation period, Monster Trucks has finally hatched. And the final result is... rather unspectacular. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jan 11, 2017
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Bad Santa 2 (2016) |
It just so happens that a film of people acting awful to each other feels extra real in our chaotic, insane times. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Nov 21, 2016
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Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) |
Ouija: Origin of Evil is an interesting exercise in watching filmmakers try to mint a franchise out of basically nothing. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Oct 20, 2016
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Masterminds (2016) |
What Masterminds lacks in sharp one-liners it more than makes up for in ridiculous slapstick. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Sep 30, 2016
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The Disappointments Room (2016) |
There simply aren't enough scares to build tension throughout. Most of the film is just Beckinsale walking around looking worried. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Sep 09, 2016
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Don't Breathe (2016) |
Alvarez appears to have consciously toned down the gore from his blood-saturated Evil Dead remake, trusting unnerving visuals and foreshadowing what terrors are about to unfold. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Aug 25, 2016
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Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016) |
Instead of trying to adapt the video game experience into a film format, Kingsglaive transforms the movie-going experience into something familiar to video game fans. It's essentially a really long cutscene. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Aug 18, 2016
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Lights Out (2016) |
Like the most enjoyable horror movies, Lights Out is almost a physical experience, carrying viewers from stress and terror to even some tension-breaking hilarity. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jul 21, 2016
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The Do Over (2016) |
The plot threads can be a little hard to follow ... but Sandler and Spade's partnership gives the whole enterprise enough emotional grounding to make up for it. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted May 27, 2016
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A Bigger Splash (2015) |
This reworking of the 1969 erotic thriller La Piscine beautifully explores the difficulties of communication. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted May 12, 2016
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Holidays (2016) |
Some of the films are haunting, some of them more macabre, but all of them play with holiday symbolism in way that will make viewers rethink a lot of their favorite celebrations. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Apr 22, 2016
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Nina (2016) |
Nina is a by-the-numbers musical biopic riddled with every conceivable cliché about "the tortured artist." - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Apr 19, 2016
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The Young Messiah (2016) |
The Young Messiah struggles to hold its audience's attention. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Mar 14, 2016
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The Other Side of the Door (2016) |
Like all the best horror, The Other Side of the Door is concerned not just with what freaks us out on a gut level, but the deeply-repressed anxieties that truly terrify us. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Mar 04, 2016
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London Has Fallen (2016) |
By casting its villain as a suspiciously ISIS-like Middle Eastern terrorist network, London Has Fallen makes itself into a political movie-but its politics are heinous. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Mar 02, 2016
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Risen (2016) |
Risen is more entertaining than Bible-adjacent stories are usually allowed to be. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Feb 18, 2016
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Race (2016) |
The title is on-the-nose but rather fitting for the story of Jesse Owens, the black track-and-field athlete who stunned the world by winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Adolf Hitler's Berlin ... - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Feb 18, 2016
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Fifty Shades of Black (2016) |
Wayans is ... incapable of limiting himself to parodying one movie at a time, tossing in riffs on Whiplash, Magic Mike, and Zero Dark Thirty to varying degrees of success. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jan 31, 2016
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