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Somehow the third movie in this series, Angel Has Fallen isn't any better than its equally dopey predecessors.

Midway is far too hollow and selective a film to depict such a critical point in World War II's Pacific front.

Baby Shark, Grandpa Shark 47 Meters Down: Uncaged begins with protagonist Mia falling into water. The school bully pushed her in, the immediate indicator that Mia (Sophie Nelisse) will …

Shocking Thriller Adapted From John Searles’ Bestselling Novel Some films are hard to classify under strict genre guidelines. Strange But True falls in that category. What begins as a …

Seeing Daylight In 2007, a documentary titled Who Killed the Electric Car? told the story of how various entities combined to keep fuel-based vehicles the standard. A few years …

The Boat Man In one of Rambo’s earliest scenes, religious missionaries approach John Rambo, asking to be taken into genocidal Burma. Rambo stares at them through cages, tossing helpless …

Never Get Out of the Boat When Martin Sheen and his troops approach a bridge midway through Apocalypse Now, it looks like a Halloween theme park. Fireworks of war …

Gary Oldman’s Worst Movie? Not so long ago, a movie with Gary Oldman and Jessica Alba would have meant something. Then Oldman started getting older and Alba went into …

Taking Shots at Politics Long Shot makes no attempt to restructure the mainstream romantic comedy. It uses bigger stakes – the American Presidency – and still finds a way …

Immortal Combat Hellboy was brought to Earth by Nazis. His name isn’t subtle – he’s from hell, the Christian vision of demons and fire and torture, an analogous lore …

Elway or Manning? Cold Pursuit is not a normal movie. Not an American one, anyway. From a Norwegian director and a Danish scriptwriter (and remade from the Norwegian original), …

Do Not Replicate The opening scene of Replicas sees scientist Keanu Reeves uploading the consciousness of a dead soldier into a robot. That’s Replicas at its most coherent. What …