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The Meg

By Matthew Passantino | August 2018

Jon Turteltaub’s The Meg wants you to think it knows the balance between exciting thriller and big, dumb, late-summer action flick but…

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Jon Turteltaub’s The Meg wants you to think it knows the balance between exciting thriller and big, dumb, late-summer action flick but never finds a...

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I’ve been somewhat of a casual fan of The Mission Impossible franchise. In 1996, it was a less campy, yet American version of James Bond. It capitalized...

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When you purchase a ticket for a Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson movie, you kind of know what to expect. His track record involves a lot of terrible movies,...

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Drawing from a promising script he co-wrote, Korean director Jung Byung-gil (Confession of Murder) squanders the chance of doing something original or...

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