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Still of Brittany Murphy and Holly Hunter in ‘Little Black Book’ (2004)

Little Black Book (2004)

Brittany Murphy and Holly Hunter may be the stars, but it's Julianne Nicholson who breaks your heart

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The Mother (2023)

Jennifer Lopez brings the intensity, but the plot is outrageously overblown at every turn

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Brothers (2024)

If you can believe Peter Dinklage and Josh Brolin are twins, maybe you’ll believe this movie is funny

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Trap (2024)

Josh Harnett is the only reason to see Trap, for a closing shot that evokes Norman Bates in that Hitchcock classic

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The Woman in the Window (2021)

Let this be a lesson to filmmakers trying to emulate a masterwork like ‘Rear Window’: Less is more

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Night of the Assassin (2023)

An ailing assassin with a price on his head slices through innumerable badguys and a predictable plot

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Knights of the Zodiac (2023)

So sad to see Sean Bean wasted in this adolescently scripted mashup of martial arts and mythology

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Land of Bad (2024)

Yet another "things go sideways" rescue mission. Rousing gun fights. Lots of explosions. Capture and torture

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Ruthless (2023)

Dermot Mulroney goes bare knuckles against sex traffickers, but can't punch his way out of this mediocre script

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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024)

Eddie Murphy does his ad-libbing best to animate ‘Axel F,’ but only the soundtrack reminds us of past magic

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A Special Lady (2017)

A twisty plot, Godfather-reminiscent set pieces, and a gutsy heroine can't make up for the exploitive brutality

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Napoleon (2023)

Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby are adrift in a meandering narrative that leaves us as uninformed as we began

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