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Daily Archives: July 1, 2016
Holiday Weekend Movies: “BFG” gets a pass, “Tarzan” doesn’t
Steven Spielberg’s viability as a kids-entertainment brand gets a test this weekend with his stately and stolid adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “The BFG.” I wasn’t nuts about it. Long, stiff, with a third act that has all the action the … Continue reading
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