Reviews

“Up in Smoke’ remains, to this day, a comedy classic. I can tell because I have received a big check every year for 30 years.”

– Cheech Marin, …
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There’s a fine line between identity politics and legit empowerment.

The happy surprise in “I Feel Pretty?” is how deftly this amusing rom-com walks it.

It’s not a strut, mind …
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Thomas Krannawitter knows white papers and think tanks can’t always compete with laughter.

A perfectly timed satire can scorch your ideological foes. It’s a lesson too many conservatives have yet …
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We all have a certain pain tolerance, but what’s our threshold for cinematic stupidity?

Consider “Rampage” as the ultimate test for the latter. Pass it, and you’ll enjoy Dwayne Johnson’s …
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“Blockers” stops mid-film for a lecture on the double standard regarding boys, girls and sex.

We often cheer on teen boys eager to do the deed while demanding  young women …
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There’s a good chance the upcoming biopic of former Vice President Dick Cheney won’t be fair or balanced.

The film’s writer/director, Adam McKay, is an ardent leftist who injects his …
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Do you live and breath the Reagan decade in ways that would make those “Stranger Things” cast mates blush?

Have we got a movie for you.

Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player …
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One of the advantages to immersive theater is its ability to transform an everyday location or event into something extraordinary — or extraordinarily weird, as is the case with CreepLA’s …
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In the special features for the Blu-ray edition of Adam Rifkin’s “The Last Movie Star,” Rifkin says he sent the script to Burt Reynolds, explaining that if he didn’t want …
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The team behind “Pacific Rim Uprising” should send a cookie bouquet to Michael Bay.

The director’s “Transformers” franchise delivered a robot sequel so embarrassingly bad last year any robot adventure …
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