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‘Love Hard’ Review: Netflix’s Cliché-Ridden Rom-Com Attempts To Be The Sweetest Catfish Story Ever Told

November 9, 2021 12:05 pm

Reviewing Christmas-based rom-coms is a bit like critiquing holiday lighting displays—ultimately, it's about how the bright, familiar pieces are arranged. “Love Hard,” the first of many new Netflix original ro...

Blumhouse’s ‘Fantasy Island’ Is (Somehow) Worse Than It Sounds [Review]

Jason Bailey

February 14, 2020 12:00 pm

News, Reviews

At risk of putting too fine a point on it, Blumhouse’s “Fantasy Island” is pretty much everything that’s wrong with contemporary commercial moviemaking. It’s a big-screen adaptation of a justly forgotten telev...

Crazy Rich Asians Is A Formulaic, But Delightful, Representational Cinderella-ish Fairy Tale [Review]

Rodrigo Perez

August 15, 2018 12:23 pm

Features, News, Reviews

It has little to do with the films themselves, and I'm loathed to start a review about outside forces that don't have anything to do with the quality of a movie, but there's an anxiety that comes with the era o...

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