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America’s Best Guilty Pleasure TV Shows
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Read more: America’s Best Guilty Pleasure TV ShowsI have a confession: I watch a lot of TV. It takes a brave man to admit that. Go ahead, call me brave. I won’t stop you. You might think a dignified internet writer like myself can’t feel shame, guilt, or regret. Surprise! If I spend a Friday night watching a bunch of rabid Scandinavians…
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The Interview
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Read more: The InterviewThe greatest problem of The Interview is that all the funniest comedy transpired before the curtains were lowered. Not Rogen’s worst comedy but not his best either. Passing moments of hilarity but with a lot of flab in between.
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Ida (2014)
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Read more: Ida (2014)I thought that I had already watched the two best movies of the year in Birdman and Boyhood, but after watching this beautiful and haunting film, I’m not so sure. Ida was set in the drab and joyless country of Poland, around 1962, at the height of the Cold War. Ida was a young woman…
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Big Hero 6
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Read more: Big Hero 6You know, for kids!
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The Muppets Christmas Carol (1992)
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Read more: The Muppets Christmas Carol (1992)Anyone who has been reading Ruthless Reviews faithfully knows that I have already reviewed a half-dozen versions of this Christmas classic. The Muppets animation hybrid is the most underwhelming of the lot of remakes of the Dickens novel that I have reviewed. The Muppets Christmas Carol (1992) takes a slightly different approach to the Carol,…
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Mockingjay Part One (The Hunger Games)
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Read more: Mockingjay Part One (The Hunger Games)Katniss Everdeen sits in a bomb shelter for two hours. That’s the sort of accident that you get when you decide to make a movie solely out of the first part of a third book in a trilogy.
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Santa Claus (1959)
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Read more: Santa Claus (1959)To wind up the Christmas reviews of 2014, I have Santa Claus (1959) as I must review something that is truly horrible, even more horrible than the Christmas season itself, which is well upon us. I probably don’t even have to watch this horror show to review it, in fact, I don’t even have…
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Fury (2014)
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Read more: Fury (2014)If Fury has a point, it is that war changes everyone who encounters it. Nine times out of ten, it changes those people into extra chunky corpse salsa…
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Sexy Beast
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Read more: Sexy Beast“I am just going to have to turn this opportunity down.” “No, you’re just gonna have to turn this opportunity yes!” sociopath (noun) A person who is completely unable or unwilling to behave in a way that is acceptable to society. Don Logan The movie begins innocuously enough, with retired gangster and safe cracker Gal…
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Birdman -or- The unexpected virtue of ignorance
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Read more: Birdman -or- The unexpected virtue of ignoranceBirdman -or- The unexpected virtue of ignorance Have your bladder empty and your popcorn handy before you plop your butt in your theater seat for this one. You also will need to buckle up, as you are immediately thrust inside the labyrinth of a dark theater where the ride is relentless. Don’t plan on relaxing…