Outcast (2015) – Review
American “name stars” dominate the marketing materials, but Outcast is actually a foreign production designed to entice western viewers into
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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) – Review
Turns out if you take the maze runner out of the maze, things become a lot less interesting. The first
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War Pigs (2015) – Review
There is only so much a filmmaker can do when working on a war movie with a limited budget. Period
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Pixels (2015) – Review
The logos roll, the movie begins, a classic rock tune blasts through the speakers, and I immediately feel comfortable and
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Magic Mike XXL (2015) – Review
This sequel to 2012’s surprise smash hit, is a lesser film of quality in terms of writing and direction, while
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We Are Your Friends (2015) – Review
The sheer charisma of the cast nearly offsets the banality of the plotting in We Are Your Friends. Obviously inspired
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Get Hard (2015) – Review
Get Hard is an embarrassingly bad, misguided, offensive and somewhat depressing movie that is supposedly a comedy. Farrell has to
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Strange Magic (2015) – Review
A rebellious fairy princess challenges an insect king’s hatred of love and affection in Strange Magic. This is the latest
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Point Break (2015) – Review
Katherine Bigelow’s classic 1991 action film Point Break has been remade nearly 25 years later. This update on the original
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The Hateful Eight (2015) – Review
Each Quentin Tarantino film is such a unique movie-going experience that any new entry is guaranteed to be greeted with
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The Big Short (2015) – Review
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the movies after space opera fantasies, along comes The
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Concussion (2015) – Review
Will Smith is spot-on in his depiction of Nigerian-born pathologist Bennet Omalu. However, The performance is greater than the movie,
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Creed (2015) – Review
Earlier this year there was much pre-release Oscar buzz for the boxing flick Southpaw. That film and its lead actor
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The Martian (2015) – Review
The Martian continues the recent trend of giving audiences intelligent, supposedly scientifically accurate, space melodramas. While it doesn’t scale the
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Tremors 5: Bloodlines ( 2015) – Review
When I saw Tremors back in 1990, I had no clue that 25 years later the series would produce a
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