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Jurassic World: Dominion
While there’s never really a sense of true danger for our heroes, we get just enough of the range of CGI dinosaurs and their weird traits to keep the film entertaining.
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The Bob’s Burgers Movie
The cinematic debut for the long-running animated series about a misfit family of restaurant owners brings all the quirks and quips of the original Bob’s Burgers.
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Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness
Veteran director and cult icon Sam Raimi brings us a vision of Dr. Strange that thankfully shakes off some of the weight of the ever-expanding Marvel universe.
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Father Stu
If we need a movie starring Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson about problematic men finding a redemption arc, this is certainly that movie.
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The Contractor
In a crowded field of lone-man operators-against-the-world action films, The Contractor doesn’t do anything well enough to finish the job.
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Deep Water
It’s surprisingly entertaining in its failings, and makes for a great date movie if your idea of a date movie involves frequently looking in utter disbelief towards your date for a shared moment of, “Wait, that really just happened?”
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The Outfit
The film is a bit smart for its own good, twisting for the sake of twists and leaning too heavily on the use of exposition and flashbacks to reveal surprising information.
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Nocturna: Side A – The Great Old Man’s Night and Nocturna: Side B – Where the Elephants Go to Die
While reaching some poignant emotional moments, Calzada has a frustrating tendency to linger too long, letting the score overtake the poignancy and verge into cheap melodrama.
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Nightmare Alley
What del Toro so strikingly presents is a morality tale of how the desire to rectify the past can overwhelm our best judgment in the present, leading to disastrous consequences.