Check out what the critics are saying about this weeks hottest new releases in the review excerpts below.
Moana
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(Thankfully, Moana doesnt have a love interest.)
Credit: Daniel Smith; Jan Thijs; Disney; Francois Duhamel
The result is a pitch-perfect addition to the animated Disney canon.A-
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& Mrs. Smithwith Angelina Jolie.
That film was snarky where this one is more square.
But Pitt and Cotillards chemistry is just as charged and combustible.
Luckily, it seems unlikely that anyone averse to such humor will somehow be tricked into watchingBad Santa 2.
Im not politically correct, is one of Bates very first lines.
And like those films, its phantasmagorical special effects are easy on the eyes.
So why doesFantastic Beastsfeel so oddly lifeless?
Why doesnt it cast more of a spell?
First, there are the performances, which aside from Redmaynes are surprisingly flat.
And second, the thinness of the source material gives the whole film a slightly padded feeling.
Maybe this is all necessary table-setting that will lead to bigger payoffs in chapters 2 through 5.
(Were a long way from the blunt-force shenanigans of HYDRA here.
)Doctor Strangeis thrilling in the way a lot of other Marvel movies are.
(At least initially; three guesses how that plot twist turns out.)
Still, the movies serotonin pumps like a fire hose.
But its all in the service of building to its final revelation and also of conveying Louises enormous loss.
