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Review of Murder Mystery 2 (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 31 Mar 2023

Dismally lazy nonsense whose only redeeming element is that its credits roll a good 10 minutes before the conclusion of its stated runtime…

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Review of Enys Men (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 28 Mar 2023

Those with a craving for out-there mystery and dread, however, will get a heady buzz from its bizarro madness…

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Review of Money Shot: The Pornhub Story (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 23 Mar 2023

Refusing to provide an accurate and trustworthy snapshot of what both these opposing factions are really about, the film comes across as a…

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Review of 20 Days in Mariupol (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 18 Mar 2023

Provides a remarkable snapshot of the war crimes that—as the daily news reminds us—are still being perpetrated today…

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Review of Boston Strangler (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 16 Mar 2023

It has one thing to say, and it says it over and over again with a dismal lack of nuance…

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Review of Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 15 Mar 2023

Messy and mirthless, it resounds as the death knell for this interconnected cinematic enterprise’s current iteration…

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Review of John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 13 Mar 2023

More turns out to be just about right in this case, with the film offering up such an onslaught of brutal, breakneck action that it’s…

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Review of 65 (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 09 Mar 2023

The proceedings resemble an impromptu game of make-believe concocted by a kid playing with his or her toys—a situation that renders it…

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Review of Scream VI (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 08 Mar 2023

This sixth chapter boasts not a single genuinely unnerving jolt—a consequence of tepid writing as well as the familiarity of…

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Review of Champions (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 07 Mar 2023

Offsetting its naughtier impulses with feel-good schmaltz, it employs a tired formula to losing results…

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Review of Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 01 Mar 2023

It’s espionage executed with cheeky flair and playful sexiness, and it’s enlivened by Aubrey Plaza, who runs away with the show…

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Review of Cocaine Bear (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 23 Feb 2023

To call the proceedings one-note is to oversell their depth; the sheer dearth of ideas in this fiasco is almost impressively profound…

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Review of Creed III (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 23 Feb 2023

It’s easy to see the film’s punches coming before they’re thrown, but that doesn’t lessen their wallop when they land…

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Review of The Quiet Girl (2022)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 23 Feb 2023

As superb as any feature debut in recent memory, its power derived from its marriage of graceful writing, subtle direction, and unbearably…

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Review of Linoleum (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 23 Feb 2023

In sticking its landing, Linoleum proves a case study in why no story can be fully judged until it’s over…

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Review of A House Made of Splinters (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 21 Feb 2023

Affords an intimate and wrenching view of a national collapsing under the weight of unbearable traumas, and of the young children who are…

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Review of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 16 Feb 2023

Some of the chintziest and most uninspired exploitation cinema this side of Sharknado…

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Review of Marlowe (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 15 Feb 2023

While the star adequately acquits himself, Neil Jordan’s throwback noir is a cover song that knows all the notes but can’t capture its…

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Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 14 Feb 2023

Just as readers will likely get lost in its gobbledygook subtitle, so too does Rudd get swallowed up by the consuming CGI insanity of his…

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Review of The Outwaters (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 09 Feb 2023

A cannier, and more effective, slice of shaky-cam insanity than most of its brethren, right down to a finale that’s akin to 2001: A Space…

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