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The powerful timing of Richard Linklater’s take on '80s competitiveness in Everybody Wants Some!!

                                      
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The powerful timing of Richard Linklater’s take on '80s competitiveness in Everybody Wants Some!!

The mobile framing in this film, so insistent, so aggressive throughout this experience, helps to sustain not only your emotional investment but also your understanding of what's at issue here.

Love him or hate him, James Franco is a conversation starter. His newest, Spring Breakers, might leave you speechless.

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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past submits that Connor deserves to be saved by Jenny. But it never shows how or why she should bother with him.

May's titles include the fourth films in two aging franchises, more Pixar perfection, and the reboot of a TV series from 40 years ago. And they say there are no new ideas.

There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

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The film manages a complex range of feelings with a series of hackneyed characters, plot turns, and montages. Lots of montages.

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