Author: Katie Walsh Tribune News Service
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Movie review: ‘Big Short’ will make you laugh, make you furious
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Marisa Tomei; directed by Adam McKay; 170 minutes; rated R for pervasive language and some sexuality/nudity; opens Wednesday In adapting the 2010 financial crisis book “The…
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Movie review: Great cast can’t save ‘Sisters’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Ike Barinholtz, Dianne Wiest, James Brolin, Maya Rudolph, John Leguizamo; directed by Jason Moore; 118 minutes; R for crude sexual content and language throughout, and for drug use. A lot…
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Bradley Cooper’s ‘Burnt’ seems a little half-baked
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl, Emma Thompson, Omar Sy; directed by John Wells; 100 minutes; R for language throughout. If “Burnt,” starring Bradley Cooper, feels slightly familiar, you might be remembering Cooper’s short-lived…
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Cynical ‘Our Brand Is Crisis’ is good fit for Bullock
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Sandra Bullock-starring “Our Brand Is Crisis” is an acidic, biting political satire that asserts the notion that marketing has taken over the democratic process. There’s truth in that thesis, especially since the film is…
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‘Hotel Transylvania 2’ is cute, but not a classic
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, Andy Samberg; directed by Genndy Tartakovsky; 89 minutes; PG for some scary images, action and rude humor. There’s an embarrassment of riches when it comes…
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Too much gore, not enough scares in ‘Green Inferno’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy; directed by Eli Roth; 100 minutes; R for aberrant violence and torture, grisly disturbing images, brief graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use. What’s the point of watching…
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‘U.N.C.L.E’ is lots of cool style, absolutely no substance
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debickie, Jared Harris, Hugh Grant; directed by Guy Ritchie; 116 minutes; PG-13 for action violence, some suggestive content, and partial nudity The latest cinematic Rube Goldberg machine…
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Movie takes the viewer to ‘Dark Places,’ but doesn’t stay there
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Charlize Theron, Corey Stoll, Christina Hendricks, Tye Sheridan, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nicholas Hoult; directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner; 113 minutes; R for some disturbing violence, language, drug use and sexual content For those who loved…