“Collateral Beauty” should come with a warning label. It’s trite melodrama sprinkled with holiday magic, and then drained of character, nuance, and any shred of reality
Will Smith
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Film review: “Suicide Squad”
It gives me no pleasure to report that DC’s supervillain team-up flick, “Suicide Squad,” isn’t a good movie. I take no joy in further stoking the flames of rivalry between DC and Marvel; as a fan of many in DC’s stable of characters, I want nothing more than to see good films based on the […]
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Film Review: “Focus”
Back in his mid-to-late 1990’s heyday, Will Smith was the undisputed box office king. At a certain point, the Fourth of July weekend seemed to be reserved for the annual big-budget blockbuster, like “Independence Day” and “Men in Black,” that was built around the actor’s unique brand of wise-cracking charm. But in recent years, Smith […]
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“After Earth”
Despite the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Evil Empire, the empty fears about Y2K, the uneventful coming and going of the millennium, the film industry regards the future with a love for both panic and profit. For some decades now, the post-apocalyptic vision has dominated science fiction movies, and when Hollywood […]
