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Review

Don’t Look Up

by Hannah Strong

Leonar­do DiCaprio and Jen­nifer Lawrence tack­le a cli­mate emer­gency in Adam McKay’s uneven, star-stud­ded dramedy.

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Review

Vice

by Hannah Strong

Adam McKay’s played-for-laughs por­trait of for­mer VP Dick Cheney strays into Bond vil­lain parody.

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Review

The Big Short

by David Jenkins

The direc­tor of Anchor­man 2 dials back the screw­ball in this frisky tale of the sub-prime mort­gage melt­down of 2007.

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Review

Get Hard

by David Jenkins

The dodgy pol­i­tics of this would-be com­e­dy might have been more hard-hit­ting had Will Fer­rell and and Kevin Hard giv­en us some­thing to laugh about.

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Review

Step Brothers

by Dan Stewart

Will Fer­rell and John C Reil­ly deliv­er in this dys­func­tion­al com­e­dy from direc­tor Adam McKay.

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