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‘Spies in Disguise’ review: Will Smith goes into 007 mode for this lively,...
Will Smith, playing a suave secret agent, and Tom Holland, as a genius-geek designer of whiz-bang gizmos, fizz and spark merrily off one another in this lively animated spy comedy.
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‘Underwater’ review: First creature feature of 2020 drowns in stupidity
The first creature feature of the new decade is here, and boy is it dumb.
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‘Dolittle’ review: Talking-animal tale — led by Robert Downey Jr. — gets...
The granddaddy of talking-animal tales gets the full CGI treatment and it’s by far the best of the lot. A great deal of credit for that goes to Robert Downey Jr.
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‘The Gentlemen’ review: Lock, stock and a barrel of bloody good fun
Guy Ritchie’s latest movie is an intricately structured picaresque tale featuring a rogue’s gallery of British crooks falling afoul of one another.
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‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ review: Beloved video-game character makes a bright,...
"Sonic the Hedgehog" zips onto the silver screen in this video-game adaptation, kicking off a lightning-quick ride with Jim Carrey and James Marsden.
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‘The Call of the Wild’ review: Bring the kids to this defanged dog tale, with...
What we have here is the call of the mild, as Jack London’s 1903 classic novel about the trials and tribulations of a Yukon sled dog is adapted for the big screen with the rough edges filed off.
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‘Onward’ review: Has Pixar lost its mojo? For a tale about magic, it has very...
This Pixar picture, opening in theaters March 6, is noisy, frantic, derivative, simplistic and very disappointing for a studio that usually makes movies that are marvelous in their originality.
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‘The Way Back’ review: Ben Affleck brings quiet dignity to sobering...
Ben Affleck is sad. Glum. Gloomy. Morose. Blue. He brings all those emotional shadings to his portrayal of Jack Cunningham, the alcoholic lead character in “The Way Back.”
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‘The Paper Tigers’ review: Kung fu film, made in Seattle with a solid cast,...
The performances, script and well-choreographed fight scenes stand out in the "The Paper Tigers," a tale of three friends who reunite after 25 years. The action comedy was written and directed by Bao...
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‘Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins’ review: Action flick lacks kick and presence
“Crazy Rich Asians” revealed Henry Golding's forte as being a sexy smoothie. Easy on the eyes. Effortlessly engaging. Unfortunately, not the skill set for action hero Snake Eyes.
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‘Stillwater’ review: Well-acted Matt Damon drama, patterned after the Amanda...
Matt Damon stars as an American who travels to the French port city of Marseille on a quest to free his daughter (Abigail Breslin) from prison. While it aims for profundity, by the end, it dives into...
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‘The Suicide Squad’ review: New supervillains add to the bloody-minded fun
James Gunn, who made “Guardians of the Galaxy” such an unhinged delight, masterfully mixes humor and bloodshed and manages to give a surprising number of characters room to develop their personas. And...
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‘Free Guy’ review: The plot is nothing special — but Ryan Reynolds is worth a...
In “Free Guy,” Ryan Reynolds is Guy — a cheery bank teller who comes to realize he’s a minor character in a video game. Think “Groundhog Day” meets “The Truman Show” and “The Matrix” with a dash of...
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‘Hunting Bigfoot’ review: Seattle-based filmmaker follows a man obsessed with...
Local filmmaker Taylor Guterson captures John Green as he trekked and searched for "the Primate" in the North Bend/Snoqualmie area.
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‘Flag Day’ review: Family turmoil flies in Sean Penn drama, featuring his...
A woman's life is thrust into turmoil by the actions of her incorrigibly irresponsible father. The family drama stars Sean Penn, who also directs, and his daughter, Dylan Penn.
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‘The Card Counter’ review: Oscar Isaac, with quiet intensity, is this film’s...
“The Card Counter” is the Oscar Isaac Show. So much so that it’s almost as though there is no one else in it.
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‘East of the Mountains’ review: Tom Skerritt shines as an ill man journeying...
Loosely based on the 1999 novel of the same title by Bainbridge Island author David Guterson, this intimate movie charts a man's journey from Seattle to east of the Cascades where, in the territory...
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‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ review: Tom Hardy sequel is a full-bore monster...
Tom Hardy and Woody Harrelson go at it as the film's two monsters in screechy fight scenes that shatter the scenery and the eardrums.
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‘The Last Duel’ review: Matt Damon, Adam Driver face off in Ridley Scott’s...
A woman's accusation unleashes a cascade of events that culminates in a duel to the death. Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer and Ben Affleck star in Ridley Scott's historical drama.
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‘Dune’ review: Remarkable new film gets everything right, from the cast to...
Director Denis Villeneuve made this film for fellow fans. But he also made it for people who have never read Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 sci-fi masterpiece. And now they won’t have to. The movie has...
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