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Tom Russo

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The Running Man (1987) 59% EDIT “Director Paul Michael "Starsky" Glaser drastically reworks an original story concept from Stephen King, and not necessarily for the better.” – Boston Globe Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Toy Story (1995) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “Seeing the imagery dimensionalized subtly adds to the already tangible curviness of Woody and Buzz's molded plastic world. ” – Boston Globe Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) 79% 2/4 EDIT “The title might trumpet Harley Quinn's emancipation, but she again feels like a character trapped in a movie that's mediocre at best.” – Boston Globe Feb 7, 2020 Full Review The Gentlemen (2019) 76% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's a diverting if slightly undercooked throwback that could offer more genuine intrigue, but that's still worth it to see the cast gamely chuck out the window manners and vanity.” – Boston Globe Jan 23, 2020 Full Review Bombshell (2019) 67% 3/4 EDIT “[A] film that's both soberly, sympathetically thoughtful and bristling with the energy of its high-powered setting.” – Boston Globe Dec 18, 2019 Full Review 21 Bridges (2019) 55% 2/4 EDIT “It's telling, though, that the biggest reaction at a preview screening came when one audience member punctuated a climactic scene with an amusingly timed "Wakanda forever!" But it shouldn't be solely about Wakanda forever, should it?” – Boston Globe Nov 20, 2019 Full Review Charlie's Angels (2019) 52% 2.5/4 EDIT “What's most entertaining here, ultimately, is the performance that Stewart turns in as outspoken, play-it-loose Sabina, a completely unexpected, who-knew mash-up of sexy and offbeat.” – Boston Globe Nov 16, 2019 Full Review Doctor Sleep (2019) 78% 2.5/4 EDIT “The push to echo Kubrick works well in the limited early dose we're given, but ultimately the movie takes it too far.” – Boston Globe Nov 8, 2019 Full Review Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) 70% 2.5/4 EDIT “As with the installments that this one ostensibly overwrites, "Dark Fate" offers some diverting conceptual riffs and effects updates. Still, it hardly feels essential.” – Boston Globe Nov 1, 2019 Full Review The Lighthouse (2019) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Pattinson and Dafoe dig into their roles... [and] Together with Eggers they deliver a masterful study of souls trapped on a rock alone, but also trapped together, with all the twisty complexities involved.” – Boston Globe Oct 18, 2019 Full Review Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) 40% 2.5/4 EDIT “What the story boils down to, then, is a mixed-marriage parable, one that could be panderingly "on trend," but which the filmmakers handle fairly thoughtfully.” – Boston Globe Oct 17, 2019 Full Review The Addams Family (2019) 46% 2/4 EDIT “You can tell from all the oddball minutiae... how the filmmakers are striving for fun worthy of the "Addams Family" legacy. But this incarnation just isn't the scream that it could be.” – Boston Globe Oct 14, 2019 Full Review Lucy in the Sky (2019) 21% 2/4 EDIT “It's a deep-thinking character study that's provocatively if imperfectly presented - at least until the story devolves right along with its subject's state of mind.” – Boston Globe Oct 9, 2019 Full Review Abominable (2019) 83% 3/4 EDIT “Yes, as it turns out - not only is "Abominable" as amusing as the competition, it boasts a lyricism and sweetness uniquely, sublimely its own.” – Boston Globe Sep 26, 2019 Full Review Downton Abbey (2019) 84% 3.5/4 EDIT “[A] thoroughly satisfying follow-up that arrives in theaters not quite four years after the series finale aired.” – Boston Globe Sep 18, 2019 Full Review It: Chapter Two (2019) 62% 3/4 EDIT “Muschietti and his newly expanded cast come through pretty satisfyingly at points. But they also come up short at others, and at still others shift priorities entirely to concentrate instead on ante-upping chills.” – Boston Globe Sep 5, 2019 Full Review The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) 95% 2.5/4 EDIT “We can see the full picture clearly, too - so much so, finally, that this easygoing odyssey offers no real surprises.” – Boston Globe Aug 21, 2019 Full Review Maiden (2018) 98% 3/4 EDIT “Writer-director Alex Holmes ("Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story") absorbingly recounts the story of Edwards and her team in an unfussy linear style that effectively recaptures the tension of their gutsy undertaking.” – Boston Globe Jul 3, 2019 Full Review Ma (2019) 55% 3/4 EDIT “The lady might be a wackjob, but she's one with some complexity behind the creeping instability. As showy character roles go, Spencer hits the motherlode.” – Boston Globe May 30, 2019 Full Review Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) 42% 2.5/4 EDIT “Whichever, the seat-rattling, super-size mayhem in this latest "Godzilla" is fantastic - emphasis on "fan." Regrettably, though, the human-scale action featuring Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, and Millie Bobby Brown borders on inane.” – Boston Globe May 30, 2019 Full Review John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum (2019) 89% 2.5/4 EDIT “Reeves and Dacascos's brutal, climactic sparring session definitely leaves us wanting more, not to mention wondering about a potential Oscars sound editing category for shattering glass.” – Boston Globe May 24, 2019 Full Review Missing Link (2019) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “Stick around for the end credits to get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the heroes' elephant ride across India. The animators particularly strive to offer a fresh take on their final destination...” – Boston Globe Apr 15, 2019 Full Review Hellboy (2019) 17% 1.5/4 EDIT “In the end, the movie leaves us stuck with unmoving drama and increasingly numbing carnage, delivered with a hand as heavy as Hellboy's monstrously oversized right meathook.” – Boston Globe Apr 12, 2019 Full Review Shazam! (2019) 90% 3/4 EDIT “[A]mid the unattributed riffing, the pinballing among YA-style quaintness, perv jokes, and graphic jolts, you start to realize: "Shazam!" is pretty entertaining.” – Boston Globe Apr 3, 2019 Full Review Hotel Mumbai (2018) 76% 2.5/4 EDIT “"Hotel Mumbai" captures the Taj siege so hauntingly, messages of hope and reassurance aren't easily heard.” – Boston Globe Mar 27, 2019 Full Review
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