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‘Mr. Right’ Review: Violently Romantic

Philip Brown — Wed, 25 May 2016 19:00:23 +0000

‘Mr. Right’ is no masterpiece, but it’s certainly a hell of a lot of fun and that’s all that it really needed to be. Blindingly bright, gushingly romantic, wilfully silly, and pulse-raisingly action packed, it’s a blast of pure entertainment that’s practically impossible not to be charmed by. Maybe it’s a bit dumb and maybe...

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‘Victor Frankenstein’ Review: It’s Not Particularly Alive

Philip Brown — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 02:00:29 +0000

‘Victor Frankenstein’ is a movie that tries to reinvent the old Mary Shelley tale, but the filmmakers don’t seem certain of how or why they want to do that. The flick announces that we know this story, then never gives viewers a reason why it’s being told again. The changes are primarily cosmetic, the narrative...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Mr. Right’

Philip Brown — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:00:15 +0000

It’s pretty typical for an action/comedy to include a romantic sub-plot. It’s also quite common for that to be the worst part of the movie. However, ‘Mr. Right’ is a welcome exception to the rule. This big, goofy romp mixes adorable romantic comedy and hyper-stylized gunplay so effectively into such a wildly entertaining cocktail that...

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‘American Ultra’ Review: The Stoner Supremacy

Philip Brown — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:00:07 +0000

The challenge in creating a cross-genre mashup is delivering a movie that manages to satisfy while going out of its way not to fall back on certain genre expectations. ‘American Ultra’ teeters on that very thin line throughout and comes out the other side reasonably unscathed. You can’t say the movie is perfect, but nor...

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