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Eurovision Song Contest Review: Will Ferrell Is the Worst Part of This Silly, So-So Comedy

Eurovision Song Contest is likely to get filed away with the other niche parodies Ferrell has been a part of.

4 years ago

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True Lies: Why James Cameron’s Mega-Budget Action Movie Has Faded From Memory

True Lies had enormous expectations when it opened in the summer of 1994.

4 years ago

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Why Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Is the Worst Modern DC Superhero Movie

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is possibly the most divisive entry in the entire DC Extended Universe.

4 years ago

Da 5 Bloods Review: Spike Lee’s Netflix Movie Could Have Won Awards, But It Makes A Mistake

Da 5 Bloods is the latest from controversial director Spike Lee.

4 years ago

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Judge Dredd: Why The Big Budget Failure Deserves A Second Look

Judge Dredd is a movie that almost no one wants to defend. A box office flop and a critical disaster, …

4 years ago

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The Iron Giant: How A Box Office Failure Became A Classic

The Iron Giant is considered by many critics and audiences to be one of the greatest animated films of the ’90s.

4 years ago

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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: How It Failed And Why It Deserved Better

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World could have been a turning point in mainstream movie history.

4 years ago

Space Force On Netflix Reviewed: Steve Carell’s Series Fails At Being Funny

Because Netflix’s Space Force series struggles to get off its own proverbial launchpad and I’m not sure how long viewers stick around.

4 years ago

Demolition Man: Critics Hated It But Now Stallone’s Movie Deserves Better

Demolition Man foresaw the coming wave of wistful societal longing for an earlier time that struck land roughly a decade later.

4 years ago

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Alien 3: How It Failed And Why It Deserves Better

Thanks to time and an unexpected new version of the film, Alien 3 has become one of the most fascinating and unfairly overlooked sci-fi/horror films of the last few decades.

4 years ago

Casper Turns 25: Why Critics Hated It And Why It’s Now A Childhood Classic

Casper didn’t exactly fare well with a lot of critics at the time, and even contemporary reviews aren’t quite favorable.

4 years ago

The Lovebirds Review: The Best Comedy Movie Netflix Has Ever Produced

Their continued tone of light to stark annoyance with each other plays perfectly as their situation in The Lovebirds grows more and more ridiculous.

4 years ago

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Starship Troopers: Why Everyone Hated It In 1997 And Why It’s Beloved Now

Starship Troopers should have been a gargantuan hit. That’s not what went down in 1997.

4 years ago

Snowpiercer Series Review: Episode 1 Loses What Made The Movie Good

Snowpiercer the series has just arrived on TNT, but it isn’t the first time this property has been adapted.

4 years ago

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Scoob! Review: A Reboot That Works When It’s Allowed to Be Scooby-Doo

Scoob! is a movie that’s shouldering a lot more weight than it might seem.

4 years ago

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Capone Movie Review: Tom Hardy And Josh Trank Turn A Mobster Into A Monster

Capone is going to surprise and potentially disappoint a lot of people. That’s not because of its quality but because of its intentions.

4 years ago

The Saint: It Won Val Kilmer A Razzie, But This Movie Deserves Another Look

I like to believe Kilmer looked at this script, saw The Saint for what it was, and realized he could have so, so much fun.

4 years ago

The Worst Star Wars Movie

The Rise of Skywalker is not the worst Star Wars movie and here’s why.

4 years ago

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The Phantom: Why Billy Zane’s Comic Book Movie Deserved Better

Let’s slam some evil as we look back at The Phantom, a movie that’s much more fun than its reputation would lead you to believe.

4 years ago

The Green Hornet: Why Seth Rogen’s Superhero Movie Deserved Better

When the reboot of The Green Hornet was released in January 2011, after multiple delays and almost two decades of development in one form or another, the response was… not great.

5 years ago

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Upload Review: Amazon’s New Show Is Black Mirror for Boring People

If Upload had come out five years ago, it’d probably feel a lot more novel.

5 years ago

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Zathura: How Jon Favreau’s Jumanji Spinoff Failed and Why It Deserved Better

Zathura: A Space Adventure was pretty much doomed from the outset.

5 years ago

The Willoughbys Review: Netflix’s New Family Movie Is Sweet And Heartfelt

By turns, The Willoughbys is harrowing and joyous, fun and chaotic, and while earnest and giddy, it’s messy and jumbled.

5 years ago

Extraction Review: Netflix Delivers Frenetic Action With A Big Body Count

Extraction is shot superbly even if the premise grows increasingly ridiculous.

5 years ago

Planet of the Humans Review: Michael Moore Reveals The Dark Side Of Green Energy

Planet of the Humans is on a mission to look at green energy with a critical eye, but it comes from a place of wanting alternative energy to be a viable and permanent replacement to fossil fuels.

5 years ago

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Constantine: How Keanu Reeves’ Comic Book Movie Failed And Why It Deserved Better

Constantine should have been a slam dunk. A big-budget comic book adaptation with Keanu Reeves fresh off the financially successful Matrix films.

5 years ago

What We Do in the Shadows Season 2 Review: Dead and Loving It

What We Do in the Shadows season two hits the ground running with confidence and an even bigger net to cast on supernatural shenanigans. And it’s a riot.

5 years ago

Code 8 Review: Why Netflix’s Hottest Movie Is Worth Your Time

Code 8 is definitely worth the 90 or so minutes and there’s a chance we see much more from this world.

5 years ago

Cursed Films Review: Shudder Delivers a Devilishly Delightful Docuseries

The films covered in the series are The Exorcist, Poltergeist, The Omen, The Crow, and Twilight Zone: The Movie.

5 years ago

Coffee & Kareem Review: A New Low for Netflix Comedies

If our robotic review scoring system could go into negative numbers I would, because Coffee & Kareem fails on almost every level.

5 years ago