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JOHN DeFORE

Review: Hot Tub Time Machine 2

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A sweaty cash grab that gives a bad name to sequels in which key talent has jumped ship, Steve Pink’s “Hot Tub Time Machine 2” leaps forward rather than backward in time a...

Review:The November Man

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Onetime 007 Pierce Brosnan embraces a darker take on spycraft in Roger Donaldson’s “The November Man,” playing a former CIA agent whose autumnal nickname acknowledges his ...

Review: ‘The Giver’

LOS ANGELES – An agreeable young adult riff on Orwell – via “Logan’s Run” – topped with the kind of magic-transformative baloney that passes for an ending in too many otherwise-fine Hollywoo...

Review: ‘Deliver Us From Evil’

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A serial-killer mystery in which the culprit turns out to be one of Satan’s minions, Scott Derrickson’s “Deliver Us From Evil” adapts the detective genre to an exorcism ta...

‘Aftermath’ alleges WWII atrocities

A Polish village is forced to acknowledge it has whitewashed Holocaust history in “Aftermath,” Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s powerful but not bombastic fiction film inspired by actual events. Repor...

‘After Earth’ a disappointing sci-fi tale

LOS ANGELES – Humanity’s home planet hardly merits the name-check in “After Earth,” M. Night Shyamalan’s sci-fi survival tale whose shipwreck action could (with the exception of a scene wher...