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Movie review: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Not as good as the original. Still better than a smelly pirate hooker.

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Movie review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Still pretty damn good, but the cracks are starting to show in Middle-earth.

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Movie review: The World's End

The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy comes to a somewhat disappointing close.

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Movie review: The Wolverine

This is the Logan solo film we deserved in the first place.

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Movie review: Only God Forgives

I can understand why Only God Forgives has received a chorus of mixed reactions since its premiere at Cannes, where the film was reportedly booed….

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Movie review: Man of Steel

More solid than super.

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Movie Review: Fast & Furious 6

One of my all-time favorite musicians, the incomparable David St. Hubbins, once spoke of the fine line between clever and stupid. Justin Lin's previous entry…

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Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness (Colossal Team-Up Edition!)

Tim and Bob converse about the latest Trek flick.

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Movie Review: Iron Man 3

Let's talk numbers. Three: The number of Iron Man films that Disney outfit Marvel has produced. Seven: The number of films Marvel has released in…

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Movie Review: Pain & Gain

There's a sort of kneejerk reaction to Pain & Gain that makes you want to cast Michael Bay in a different, better light. His latest…

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Movie Review: Oblivion

Attempting to sum up director Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion after walking out of the screening this past Tuesday, I came up with the following equation: Wall-E…

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Movie review: Evil Dead

Dead by yawn.

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Movie review: A Good Day to Die Hard

A bad day for anyone paying good money to watch this.

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Movie review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Bob thinks the first Hobbit film is much better than its mixed reviews indicate.

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Movie review: Skyfall

Which one of the double 0's stands for overrated?

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Movie review: Sinister

There's a moment in Sinister, maybe about halfway through, where the ending is clearly telegraphed to any viewer paying even the base level of attention….

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Movie review: Seven Psychopaths

There's a sequence near the two-third mark of Seven Psychopaths that perfectly captures the kind of meta, bloody delirium I think writer/director Martin McDonagh was…

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Movie review: The Master

Somewhere along the way — perhaps immediately after Boogie Nights — Paul Thomas Anderson became less interested in telling stories than he did in just…

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Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises

Christopher Nolan closes out his Batman trilogy in slightly underwhelming fashion.

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Movie review: The Avengers

Hulk does indeed smash.

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