Matt Lynch
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Movies reviews only
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Scream VI (2023) |
Scream VI, the latest in what’s becoming horror’s most insufferable series, is almost catastrophically tired, offering not a single novel or surprising moment. - In Review Online
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| Posted Mar 11, 2023
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Creed III (2023) |
There’s so much richness to the world depicted... so much available to dissect about Black masculinity, class distinctions, racial conflicts, capitalism, on and on, that it’s increasingly disappointing to see those aspects... get pushed aside. - In Review Online
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| Posted Mar 06, 2023
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Sharper (2023) |
[Sharper] is a mostly diverting couple of hours, but [is] unfortunately marred by the fact that it’s all so bizarrely square. - In Review Online
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| Posted Feb 10, 2023
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Kim's Video (2023) |
It’s meant to be cheeky and playful, but then it becomes assaultive and annoying, like being trapped in a conversation with someone who doesn’t care about your half of it. - In Review Online
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| Posted Jan 28, 2023
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Plane (2023) |
Once the third-act action kicks in, Plane realizes its full potential. Director Jean Francois-Richet... stages the action cleanly and clearly, even though the handheld can be a little too much to handle sometimes. - In Review Online
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| Posted Jan 13, 2023
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M3GAN (2022) |
Welcome to the new world of genre cinema, where decades of low-budget sleaze and slime have been overtaken by PG-13-rated, eminently meme-able stuff that’s marginally funny but designed mainly to repeat yourself back to you. - In Review Online
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| Posted Jan 06, 2023
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) |
Features some of the most incredible spectacle ever created by the absolute master of precise parallel action... The only thing more astonishing than anything in The Way of Water is that Cameron will probably, somehow, top it. - In Review Online
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| Posted Dec 14, 2022
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The Menu (2022) |
Unfortunately, there’s really nothing mysterious here other than motive, and once that’s revealed, The Menu collapses. - In Review Online
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| Posted Nov 28, 2022
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Poker Face (2022) |
Poker Face [is] an unwieldy, overstuffed, and ultimately baffling vanity project that somehow manages to be boring even while it seems to change into a different movie every 20 minutes or so - In Review Online
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| Posted Nov 17, 2022
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) |
Despite the best efforts of a dedicated cast and an inarguably talented writer/director ... Wakanda Forever lands as an at-times sluggish, unfocused struggle with the demands of both manifest destiny and grief, in both cases literally and figuratively. - In Review Online
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| Posted Nov 10, 2022
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Ticket to Paradise (2022) |
Ticket to Paradise has actors saying lines on locations and sets and enacting characters in a scenario, so one supposes it meets the technical criteria to be called a movie, but that is the absolute best thing that could be said about it. - In Review Online
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| Posted Oct 21, 2022
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Werewolf by Night (2022) |
As MCU tokens go, it’s largely and blessedly free of the usual insistence that you need to have kept up with all the other films and series, but it’s also nothing more than a minor goof, with a few cornball stylistic tics doing an awful lot of sweating. - In Review Online
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| Posted Oct 07, 2022
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Hellraiser (2022) |
Less a direct sequel than a further iteration, it boasts lovely production design, a reasonable amount of gore, and a new Pinhead (Jamie Clayton), and it valiantly, if not quite successfully, tries to live up to the spirit of the series. - In Review Online
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| Posted Oct 06, 2022
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022) |
Once again, in setting an allegedly simple story of friendship and loyalty against a backdrop that requires more than a little bit of nuance, to say the least, [Farrelly]'s wound up with a frequently saccharine and misguided little escapade. - In Review Online
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| Posted Oct 04, 2022
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My Best Friend's Exorcism (2022) |
My Best Friend's Exorcism is content with sub-Juno girl talk and some really blatant wallowing in empty nostalgia. - In Review Online
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| Posted Sep 30, 2022
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Leonor Will Never Die (2022) |
If Leonor Will Not Die isn’t actually more than a sweetly thoughtful drama disguised as a lovingly recreated genre throwback, that’s perfectly fine.
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| Posted Sep 17, 2022
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Pearl (2022) |
While [Pearl] might not be another blast of genre thrills at the same level [as X], it still functions as a self-contained piece of genre filmmaking and a terrific showcase for its lead actress. - In Review Online
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| Posted Sep 16, 2022
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Confess, Fletch (2022) |
It's an objectively middling movie, but one that seems born to be a pleasant low-key weekend streaming binge - In Review Online
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| Posted Sep 15, 2022
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Glorious (2022) |
... it barely runs 75 minutes... but as those few minutes wear on, it becomes increasingly clear that something drastic is going to have to happen for the movie to actually end up doing anything at all, and when it does, it’s ruinous. - In Review Online
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| Posted Aug 19, 2022
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Day Shift (2022) |
Despite being a relatively derivative concoction ... Day Shift has enough personality and sturdy, silly violence to make it feel downright refreshing. - In Review Online
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| Posted Aug 12, 2022
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Bullet Train (2022) |
[Bullet Train] is so profoundly annoying that you almost can’t believe it wasn’t just made as a goof. But no, someone actually thought it would be cool to go back to the late '90s Tarantino/Ritchie knockoff well. - In Review Online
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| Posted Aug 04, 2022
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Prey (2022) |
It’s a shame almost nobody will get to see [Prey] in a theater; it might be faint praise to call this good enough movie the best Predator sequel in over 30 years, but it’s almost perfect late summer entertainment in its utter satisfactory-ness. - In Review Online
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| Posted Aug 03, 2022
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Vengeance (2022) |
Vengeance can’t overcome its own tendency to shake out exactly as you’d expect, which prevents it from becoming as funny or cutting or insightful as it needs to be. - In Review Online
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| Posted Jul 28, 2022
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Country Gold (2022) |
Reece’s images in Country Gold are concise although not quite as stylized as in previous films ... This prolific and increasingly essential Oklahoma DIY filmmaker has been steadily pumping out one idiosyncratic piece after another ... like clockwork. - In Review Online
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| Posted Jul 27, 2022
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The Gray Man (2022) |
[The Gray Man] is the most generic piece of mail order crud imaginable given [the directors'] pedigree. - In Review Online
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| Posted Jul 21, 2022
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Nope (2022) |
[Its] undoing is its insistence on remaining oblique. Not only is Nope a crushingly long 135 minutes, but those minutes lack even the pretense of narrative momentum...At this length and because Peele insists on holding back, the movie simply feels padded. - In Review Online
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| Posted Jul 20, 2022
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Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) |
The hints of [an] ... “auteurist” perspective on the material ... are fun enough to spot and inject a bit of personality, but nothing ever congeals; every scene just feels like a placeholder until we get to the end and set up the next thing. - In Review Online
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| Posted Jul 05, 2022
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Spiderhead (2022) |
[Spiderhead is] another boring tale of someone adopting a very clearly dangerous bit of technology, only to find there are bad consequences. Wake me up when it’s over. - In Review Online
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| Posted Jun 17, 2022
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Jurassic World Dominion (2022) |
As this franchise lumbers on like a triceratops with a stomach bug, it continues to gather new characters, spam the audience with empty callbacks and legacy sequel shenanigans, and ladle on superfluous subplots, all at the expense of the dang dinosaurs. - In Review Online
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| Posted Jun 08, 2022
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White Elephant (2022) |
White Elephant feels like a missed opportunity to craft something a bit more idiosyncratic and exciting. - In Review Online
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| Posted Jun 07, 2022
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Men (2022) |
Men [is] an agreeably spooky and very well-acted but completely trite exercise that seems so desperate to be considered timely that it loses all focus. - In Review Online
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| Posted May 17, 2022
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022) |
Top Gun: Maverick is a blistering piece of pop art, an all-timer Dad movie stealth masterpiece, and maybe the ultimate legacy sequel. - In Review Online
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| Posted May 12, 2022
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The Twin (2022) |
So tired and so completely well-trod by the genre that the whole endeavor might as well have been written by AI... The Twin is a movie destined to be forgotten, but only if anyone bothers to watch it in the first place. Save yourself the trouble. - In Review Online
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| Posted May 10, 2022
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) |
[Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is] a crummy-looking, mostly incoherent slog peppered with hints of “director” Sam Raimi’s visual idiosyncrasies. - In Review Online
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| Posted May 04, 2022
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) |
As a vehicle for audiences to be reminded that Nic Cage is, despite what one may think of his prolific, often questionable filmography, one of our greatest and most committed living actors, its a pleasant and frequently funny lightweight diversion. - In Review Online
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| Posted Apr 21, 2022
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Dual (2022) |
Even while the film is not really productively about much more than some standard-issue questions of identity and destiny, and the comedy seems sort of endlessly non-sequitur-ish, the tone and performances are delightfully off-kilter. - In Review Online
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| Posted Apr 18, 2022
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The Northman (2022) |
What Eggers has delivered is a relatively epic and unsurprisingly ambitious exercise thats loaded with some tremendous imagery, his trademark detail, and grisly violence, yet somehow feels unduly restrained. - In Review Online
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| Posted Apr 13, 2022
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Ambulance (2022) |
You're not likely to see a more relentlessly excessive or thrilling movie for a long time than Ambulance, Michael Bays latest assault on both your senses and common decorum. ... its exhausting, incredibly stylish, and easily his best movie in 20 years. - In Review Online
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| Posted Apr 07, 2022
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The Bubble (2022) |
The Bubble is an incredible clutch of scenes in which nothing happens and no narrative is advanced. Its just a collection of riffs, very few of which merit more than twenty or thirty seconds, much less a movie of over two hours. - In Review Online
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| Posted Apr 01, 2022
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) |
The whole thing can also be exasperating. ... Nevertheless, the craft on display is outstanding. - In Review Online
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| Posted Mar 30, 2022
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The Contractor (2022) |
Is there anything particularly novel about The Contractor? Nope, but thats fine. - In Review Online
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| Posted Mar 28, 2022
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Hypochondriac (2022) |
Heimann's clearly making exactly the movie he wants to make here, but it seems nobody bothered to check if there was anything new to say with it. - In Review Online
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| Posted Mar 22, 2022
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X (2022) |
Its a complete breath of fresh air to see a real movie, one that puts all its energy and creativity into just doing the thing. - In Review Online
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| Posted Mar 19, 2022
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Emergency (2022) |
Emergency makes a valiant effort in depicting characters whose feelings of systematic dehumanization might cause actual loss of human life, but its focus skews a little too broad, its thrills too slight, and its laughs too scarce. - In Review Online
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| Posted Mar 18, 2022
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The Batman (2022) |
The Batman is its own, mostly very effective, strain of gorgeous and thoughtful blockbuster filmmaking. - In Review Online
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| Posted Mar 01, 2022
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The Desperate Hour (2021) |
Even at barely 85 minutes, this isnt formally precise or narratively economical enough to get you past how offensively exploitative it might be, even while it simultaneously isnt gnarly enough to be considered genuinely offensively exploitative. - In Review Online
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| Posted Feb 25, 2022
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Hellbender (2021) |
That such a DIY production doesnt seem even remotely amateurish is in and of itself remarkable, but that the Adamses dont seem to have appropriated too many stylistic touches ... that have infected so much modern horror is even more surprising. - In Review Online
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| Posted Feb 23, 2022
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Blacklight (2022) |
All told, Blacklight is a shockingly boring film, and thats when its not merely a carbon copy of every other Neeson tough-guy thriller. - In Review Online
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| Posted Feb 10, 2022
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Moonfall (2022) |
Moonfall is a tremendously stupid, intentionally silly epic of destruction and melodrama that plays its central joke entirely straight and, in true Emmerich fashion, delivers exactly what it promises. - In Review Online
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| Posted Feb 03, 2022
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Something In The Dirt (2022) |
Something in the Dirt doesn't really transmute its tantalizing subject matter into much more than a thesis, and a rather tepid one at that. - In Review Online
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| Posted Jan 28, 2022
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