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Michelle Monaghan
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005)
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
A thrill ride, and a gripping one: plausibility-straining, predictable at times, but pulse-pounding all the same.
Made of Honor (2008)
Not much distinguishes this determinedly average Hollywood outing, but it can claim Sydney Pollack's final performance and Patrick Dempsey's first big-screen starring role since his career second-wind...
The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
Eagle Eye (2008)
So colossally ridiculous (and transparently derivative) that willing suspension of disbelief is a fool’s errand.
Somewhere (2010)
Somewhere
feels like it’s made by the grandchild of Antonioni (and, in an artistic sense, perhaps it is). It’ll drive at least half the audience crazy, while the rest will walk out with a light buzz.
Source Code (2011)
Since
Source Code
is philosophical science fiction and not just 'sci fi,' there's something to chew on here about consciousness: when it begins and ends, and that old chestnut of what constitutes reality.
Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
Butler delivers an unconvincing performance that's part and parcel of a phony film lacking in any narrative subtlety or finesse.
Pixels (2015)
Resembles its own remarks about predictable patterns in the circuitry of arcade games: here is a series of crass caricatures, obvious setups and payoffs (not to mention a woman problem...), further suffocated by overweening commercialism...
Patriots Day (2016)
'Terror bad. Boston strong.'
Mission: Impossible—Fallout (2018)
Fallout
proves deliberately dizzying, not just with its oft-vertiginous action, but in its outrageous plotting, its deliriously absurd entanglements of double agents, double crosses, and just plain doubles...
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