Chris Klimek
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Mark Wahlberg plays a CIA operative trying to extricate a mysterious informant (Iko Uwais) from a fictional country in this disjointed film that underuses Uwais and overuses Wahlberg.
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It's a "somewhat self-aware, mildly sci-fi tinged, numbingly unimaginative watering down ... of a genre landmark, relocated to Asia and aimed squarely at the world's largest movie market: China."
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Kate McKinnon is dependably great, but this overlong and shaggily plotted action-comedy never generates enough laughs or surprises to make it anything more than an "August time-waster."
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Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie returns to the M:Ifranchise with jaw-dropping stunts and set pieces, ensuring that " Fallout'ssky-high thrill quotient obliterates that of all competitors."
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Despite the lazy cliché that triggers its plot, The Equalizer 2 is a "reasonably well-written and (of course) beautifully acted serving of geriatric-virility violence porn." If that's your thing.
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The lackluster sequel to 2015's moody and violent Sicariois missing that film's director (Denis Villeneuve), its stars (Emily Blunt and Daniel Kaluuya) and its artfulness.
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In this derivative but fitfully inventive fifth installment of the Jurassicfranchise, our heroes try to rescue Isla Nublar's dinosaurs from extinction-by-lava, only to get their ash handed to them.
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The revamp of the classic low-budget 1972 flick Super Flysoftens that film's main character and careens between tones "like a Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado that's had its brake lines cut."
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"There's something weirdly serene about a film that doesn't try any harder than it must," says critic Chris Klimek.
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Anderson imbues this stop-motion-animated film about loyal dogs exiled to a lonely island with his signature formalism, but there's real emotion in those pups' wet, soulful eyes.