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I hadn’t seen it in years, and while it’s very good, I remember it as much funnier. Blasphemy, I know, but there you have it. A few gags got too much play while a few …
It didn’t work for me.I liked the acting; Penelope Cruz is good (although she doesn’t look like any of her “family” members, while they do somewhat look like they could be related to each other, …
I should write an essay one of these days on the movies that I can’t not watch when they come on TV, because this is destined to become one — it is hilariously bad, overacted, …
I liked it more than most people, because I always like Shyamalan more than most people; his problem, as always, is that he’s so focused on the build-up, he botches the follow-through.I didn’t know the …
I’ve seen the movie three times, and I still don’t think I know what in the Sam Hill is going on.Seriously.Can someone explain it to me?I mean, she’s blonde, she’s dead, she’s brunette and alive, …
I expected to enjoy this more than I did.The performances are outstanding, and parts of it are very satisfying, but the writing is too on the nose; the kid’s reaction to shooting Quick Mike is …
Glark and I watched it on hotel pay-per-view, and no, they didn’t pay us, but they should have, because daaaaaaamn is it bad.The name actors are adequate, although it’s clear that Scott Speedman should probably …
I should have known I wouldn’t like it when it showed up at the house; I couldn’t remember why I’d Netflixed it, and then I saw “DeSica” on the sleeve and I really couldn’t remember …
What is going on with Ben Affleck’s hair in this movie?Seriously.It looks like…I don’t even know what it looks like.It looks, literally, like industrial carpeting.The hell?…Anyway.If you’re going to set a movie in the early …
The only thing in this movie you might have seen a jillion times before is that it’s about sports-betting pickers. Even Piven is wasted in it, it’s such a trite-fest; the speechifying and montages are …