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Tag: In Theaters

  • Slow West (2015)

    Slow West (2015)

    Slow West shows the beauty but also the bleak brutality of the American West.

  • Tomorrowland (2015)

    Tomorrowland (2015)

    Tomorrowland features good performances and offers the promise of movie spectacle and awe, but doesn’t deliver on that promise in the end.

  • Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    With thrilling action and great visual flair, Mad Max: Fury Road is a welcome return to this world by George Miller and the movie to beat this summer.

  • Ex Machina (2015)

    Ex Machina (2015)

    Ex Machina is great, slow-building tech thriller with a chilling conclusion to the story and features three up and coming actors.

  • Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

    Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

    Age of Ultron brings more action and character and story, but it’s all weighed down a bit too much by having to service so many characters.

  • While We’re Young (2015)

    While We’re Young (2015)

    Noah Baumbach is a director who tends to run hot or cold for me.  I have not seen all of his filmography, having missed out on his mid-2000s works The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding.  Kicking and Screaming, considered to be a 90s classic, did nothing…

  • Furious 7 (2015)

    Furious 7 (2015)

    Like many of the action stunts that have occurred during its seven film run, the trajectory of the Fast & Furious franchise is defying belief.  Nobody imagined at its inception, when it started as a not-so-subtle rip-off of Point Break that substituted fast cars for surfboards, that it would spawn…

  • It Follows (2015)

    It Follows (2015)

    The horror genre has become like the rom-com genre to me; there is a lot of content generated, and most of it is pandering garbage.  In the midst of that garbage, there are a handful of hidden gems every year that pleasantly surprise and are genuinely enjoyable and rise above the…

  • Cinderella (2015)

    Cinderella (2015)

    Cinderella is a modern update of the classic fairy tale that remains faithful to the source material, looks great, and deals with themes of courage, kindness, grace, and forgiveness.