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Review: The Happytime Murders

The Happytime Murders, a soft-boiled noir set in a world where humans and puppets (un)happily co-exist, is fascinating not necessarily...

If nothing else, at least one can rest assured that Pitch Perfect 3 is the final entry in a franchise that should never have been....

Sometimes all a superhero film needs is a good villain to prevent it from sinking into a muck of genericness. In the case of Power...

The warrior is tired. More than ever, Katniss Everdeen bears the emotional and physical battle scars of being the symbol of the...

Brian Wilson, the creative genius behind the Beach Boys, has had quite the life. His triumphs and tribulations could handily power half a...

Like its predecessor, Pitch Perfect 2 begins with an embarrassment and finishes with an unequivocal triumph. In between, there are some...

One's interest doesn't just wander when watching Every Secret Thing, it flees with alacrity from the dreariness and banality....

Every movie comes with a set of contrivances. Depending on the skill of execution, these can come off as rote and formulaic. There is a...

Last we saw Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), she had shot the arrow that punctured the forcefield, short-circuited the Capitol's...