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The withering reviews of 12 awful movies
FILM reviewer Leigh Paatsch has seen more great movies than he can count, with stirring performances, brilliant directing and truly clever scripts. These aren’t among them.
Review — The Wedding Ringer
KEVIN Hart and Josh Gad stink it up in a sub-par goof-fest, cobbled together from second-hand ideas and third-rate gags.
Review — Wild
AMERICA’S former sweetheart Reese Witherspoon plays against type in a real-life story as a troubled woman on a voyage of self-discovery.
Review — American Sniper
VETERAN director Clint Eastwood pits good versus evil in a thriller based on the life of Navy SEAL, Chris Kyle, played by Bradley Cooper.
Review — Taken 3
DESPITE the efforts of Liam Neeson, the latest chapter in the Taken series of thrillers rarely engages like its pulpy predecessors did.
Review — Paper Planes
AUSSIE director Robert Connolly has found heart, soul and fun in a home-grown kids’ film that truly soars.
Review — Unbroken
ADAPTED from the 2010 best-selling book and directed by Angelina Jolie, Unbroken is a demanding true story of survival set in the later years of World War II.
Review — Birdman
IT’S the movie everyone’s talking about. So just how good is Birdman? Very, very good, says Leigh Paatsch.
Review — Into the Woods
THE man who mastered the musical with Chicago is back with a fractured fairytale film and a cast to die for, including Meryl Streep and Anna Kendrick
Review: Penguins Of Madagascar
THEY are no longer snarky sidekicks — the penguins from the Madagascar series have got their own movie, and it’s funny-business-as-usual for the most part.
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