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Eternals
(2021)
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Robert Slack
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Eternals is not a good movie. It's not a good comic book movie, it's not a good action movie, it's not a good Marvel movie. It somehow feels overstuffed and empty at the same time. It's muddled and convoluted. It's a bland and boring and bewildering mess.
Posted Nov 09, 2021
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Dune
(2021)
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Robert Slack
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Dune is an extraordinarily beautiful movie. Like, gasping for breath, tears at the corners of the eyes beautiful.
Posted Nov 01, 2021
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The Tomorrow War
(2021)
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Robert Slack
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The Tomorrow War is like the Golden Retriever of movies
Posted Aug 10, 2021
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The Suicide Squad
(2021)
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Robert Slack
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James Gunn's The Suicide Squad is just about as much fun as a person can have in a theatre without getting arrested
Posted Aug 10, 2021
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Things Heard & Seen
(2021)
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Robert Slack
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It takes a special kind of bad ending to wreck an entire film viewing experience, like, so awful that you're amazed that the people cutting the cheques didn't call the bank to stop payment.
Posted May 25, 2021
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
(2021)
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Robert Slack
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Let's get this out of the way first - the new cut of Justice League is better than the theatre release of Justice League. Unfortunately, that doesn't make it a good movie.
Posted Mar 29, 2021
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Outside the Wire
(2021)
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Robert Slack
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There must be better ways to spend a couple of hours during this slow-motion apocalypse we're all living through.
Posted Jan 19, 2021
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Mank
(2020)
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Robert Slack
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There really is nothing like Mank and hasn't been in decades, if ever.
Posted Dec 07, 2020
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Toy Story 4
(2019)
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Robert Slack
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Toy Story 4 is more like an epilogue than a new chapter. A funny, moving, surreal epilogue filled with existential angst.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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The Lion King
(2019)
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Robert Slack
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By working so hard to make it look like a National Geographic film with all the genitals removed, Jon Favreau and his team have created something that, while it is kinda cool to look at, is soulless
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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It: Chapter Two
(2019)
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Robert Slack
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Its the cast that saves It Chapter Two.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood
(2019)
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Robert Slack
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Damn, I love this movie.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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Good Boys
(2019)
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Robert Slack
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For a movie that features a sex doll and a 12 year old wearing a gimp mask, Good Boys has a lot of heart. It just might have the most heart of any movie that features a sex doll and a twelve year old wearing a gimp mask.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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The Irishman
(2019)
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Robert Slack
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Well, objectively, the film is kind of boring.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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Ad Astra
(2019)
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Robert Slack
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Ad Astra is more a father son story wrapped up in an existential exercise than it is any traditional sic-fi film.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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Doctor Sleep
(2019)
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Robert Slack
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I like Doctor Sleep. A lot. It scared me, moved me, fascinated me, horrified me. It takes chances and goes places that very few genre films dare to go.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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Joker
(2019)
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Robert Slack
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Without Mr. Phoenix, Joker would be kind of dull.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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Ford v Ferrari
(2019)
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Robert Slack
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Ford v Ferrari is a near-perfect combination of modern storytelling technique combined with classic Hollywood.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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The Laundromat
(2019)
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Robert Slack
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It's all kinds of unnecessarily weird and tasteless and exploitative and way, way, way too blunt and shrill.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
(2019)
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Robert Slack
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Remove the fan service, you will still have a heck of a genre movie here.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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Dolittle
(2020)
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Robert Slack
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Much of Dolittle is dull and makes little narrative sense and judging by the reactions of the kids in my theatre, at times a tad too dark and kind of boring.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
(2020)
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Robert Slack
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Let's get this out of the way upfront, first and foremost, and most importantly, Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is dump trucks full of fun. It's almost as much fun as a dozen Golden Lab puppies.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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The Invisible Man
(2020)
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Robert Slack
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Sweet baby Jesus this movie had me on the edge of my seat.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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Spenser Confidential
(2020)
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Robert Slack
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Is Spenser Confidential a kind of dumb but highly entertaining way to spend a couple of hours as the world spins off its axis, is it some good escapism, and does Mark Wahlberg take his shirt off? Yes, yes, and yes
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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Enola Holmes
(2020)
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Robert Slack
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The movie is light and energetic and probably won't solve any of the world's problems. But that's fine. There are good and smart and educated people trying to solve a number of the world's problems.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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The Trial of the Chicago 7
(2020)
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Robert Slack
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Don't look to this movie when write your essay about this moment in history. Do look to this movie as great art inspired by a moment in history.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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Tenet
(2020)
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Robert Slack
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Tenet is a heck of an achievement and is spectacular to watch. Technologically there is nothing like it.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
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