Read more about the article ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ review: A smartly written political thriller
Chris Evans (Steve Rogers/Captain America) and Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanov/Black Widow) in Captain America: The Winter Soldier

‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ review: A smartly written political thriller

Chris Evans (Steve Rogers/Captain America) and Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanov/Black Widow) in Captain America: The Winter Soldier Captain America's second standalone outing goes where previous…

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Shailene Woodley (Tris) and Theo James (Four) in Divergent

‘Divergent’ review: Watch for hot actor

Going into Divergent, I had very little idea what to expect. While nothing beats Twilight for terrible story (that still inexplicably earned hundreds of millions of dollars and literally devil-spawned four equally successful movie sequels), Divergent had a convoluted-sounding plot that made me never want to read the books, so I was skeptical of how good the movie could be.

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Read more about the article ‘The Expendables 2’ review: A big old ’80s-flashback action cheese-fest
Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Terry Crews and Nan Yu in The Expendables 2

‘The Expendables 2’ review: A big old ’80s-flashback action cheese-fest

Ah, the nostalgia, watching action stars of the '80s stage a comeback! Saw The Expendables 2 last night, and I couldn't stop laughing at all these hulking, muscled men, tendons popping out, grunting through their lines. Their cheesy lines. It's so rife with cliches, glaring showdowns, ridiculously overblown action, bad plot devices and one-note, unspeakably evil villains that it's essentially one big cheese-fest poking fun of itself.

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Read more about the article ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ review: Ten times better than the first movie
Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark), Elizabeth Banks (Effie Trinket) and Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen) in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ review: Ten times better than the first movie

With a new director and a bigger budget comes a film adaptation that surpasses its predecessor by all counts.

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