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Love, Simon
Love, Simon is a wonderful feel-good movie. It is funny and touching and never treats its protagonist’s homosexuality as a plot device. It s

Ben Pivoz
Mar 18, 2018


Thoroughbreds
Thoroughbreds is the first pleasant surprise of 2018. I knew pretty much nothing about it going in and was captivated from start to finish.

Ben Pivoz
Mar 12, 2018


Gringo
Gringo is trying to be a wacky dark comedy about a good man thrown around by the corruption of the world. There are a few funny moments and

Ben Pivoz
Mar 9, 2018


Game Night
I laughed as hard at this movie as I have at any movie in recent memory, but there is still something missing. There was no consistency from

Ben Pivoz
Feb 24, 2018


Monster Hunt 2
There is so much story and so many characters that, eventually, I stopped trying to make sense of everything and just went along with the am

Ben Pivoz
Feb 18, 2018


Early Man
I enjoyed spending time in their crazy world. The jokes are funny, never condescending and rarely gross.

Ben Pivoz
Feb 18, 2018


Peter Rabbit
It is not funny and, even more than that, it makes Peter and Thomas seem like jerks, while Bea looks like an idiot for not realizing what is

Ben Pivoz
Feb 11, 2018


I, Tonya
Every once in a while a story comes around that is so crazy, so absurd, so unbelievable that the truth becomes difficult to ascertain. I, To

Ben Pivoz
Jan 12, 2018


Downsizing
Every once in a rare while, I see a movie so baffling, so completely inexplicable that I wonder what the filmmakers could possibly have been

Ben Pivoz
Dec 24, 2017


Father Figures
The stars are both likable enough that the film never becomes bad, but the screenplay is not nearly funny enough to get it away from average

Ben Pivoz
Dec 24, 2017
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