It’s the balance of comedy and existential drama that truly elevates Thelma.
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The film meanders its way toward its goal with a maddening lack of focus and narrative thrust.
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There’s considerable emotional truth on display throughout Benjamin Ree’s documentary.
The things that elevate Chiwetel Ejiofor’s film are those that elevated Rob Peace’s life overall.
Like a Dragon goes Hawaiian, and the change of scenery mostly does the series good.
The film only give voice to the politics informing the drama in spare moments of suspense.
The Book of Clarence has an energy that’s largely missing from its influences.
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The film hits its plot milestones as fast as humanly possible, cohesion or depth be damned.
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The game’s Pandora is a beautiful place to visit, but living there makes for a boring existence.
Square Enix’s job with the upcoming Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is an interesting one.
Wish plays out like the No Frills version of a Disney princess story.
Taika Waititi’s frivolous humor is but an extra kick while the film’s poor bastards are down.
Few R-rated horror films released in 2023 are as vicious as this one is.
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The game presents fractal realities in all their abstract and frightening glory.
The film takes the winning formula of the games and doesn’t exactly run with it.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is an extraordinary standard bearer for open-world games.
The game builds literal and figurative cathedrals on the foundation set by its predecessor.
Mortal Kombat hits the reset button yet again, and finds itself looking older than before.
David Gordon Green’s newest attempt to raise franchise hell results in a disjointed mess.