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Review: Happiest Season
By Christian DiMartino Clea Duvall’s Happiest Season goes in directions you expect it to go once the groundwork for the plot is laid out. It’s also cliché to a degree and not every bit of humor lands in it. Yet even with all of that, it still manages to be one of the best Christmas…
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On DVD This Week: Summer leftovers
By Christian DiMartino Here are some of the movies coming out on DVD today: Central Intelligence: Central Intelligence came out the same day as Finding Dory, and magically still made a lot of money. And even more magical: it didn’t totally suck. That being said though, it’s a film that didn’t completely sell me. Dwayne Johnson and…
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Review: Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
By Christian DiMartino Well slap my ass and call me stanky: I didn’t see this coming. I’ve seen the trailer for Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates so many times I could probably close my eyes and reenact the whole thing. Seriously. It was overkill. I talked smack for months and months, just assuming it was…
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Review: Dirty Grandpa
By Christian DiMartino There comes a scene near the end of Dirty Grandpa in which two trucks nearly crash into each other, and truth is, I was rooting for them to go all the way. Robert De Niro can be funny, and yet he can phone it in. He’s obviously a legend in his own right,…