Mark Meszoros
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Movie review: Stars contribute to ‘Mayday,” a lifting action comedy (opens the original)
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Nikolai Ustinov may just be the hero we didn’t know we needed. Kenneth Branagh’s performance as the butt-kicking, America-loving ex-KGB agent is the greatest strength of the Cold War-set action comedy “Mayday,” debuting on Apple TV this week. The veteran British actor isn’t the biggest name in the latest Skydance Media production to go straight to Apple’s streaming platform; that would be his co-star, Ryan Reynolds. But while the “Deadpool” star plays a version of the character he typically play
Movie Review | Statham makes hard refusal to die in taut action flick (opens the original)
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OK, “Boat Hard” probably would have been too on-the-nose as a title. Still, it’s tough to get past the fact that there is no mutiny in “Mutiny,” a Jason Statham action vehicle floating into theaters this week. Like 1992’s “Under Siege” and other violent romps that have come since, “Mutiny” is, essentially, “‘Die Hard’ at Sea,” with Statham’s Cole Reed a stowaway trying to best a nefarious captain — whose crew is entirely loyal to him. Setting our naming gripes aside, “Mutiny” is a rather enjoyab
Movie Review | ‘Purge’-like rom-com ‘One Night Only’ makes most of the evening (opens the original)
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The “Purge”-ification of other movie genres has begun. The 2013 dystopian action horror film “The Purge” introduced a concept that would serve what would become a franchise well for several big-screen installments and a short-lived TV series: One night per year in the United States, all crime, including murder, is legal — largely in the name of preserving the other 364 days as essentially crime-free. Enter the clever, quirky and lively “One Night Only,” which, as was obvious when its trailer deb
Movie review | Kevin Hart comedy fun, won’t give you ‘The Hangover’ (opens the original)
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The latest straight-to-Netflix offering from comedian and actor Kevin Hart’s HartBeat Productions, “72 Hours,” accomplishes its implied mission: be a poor man’s version of “The Hangover.” On the streaming giant this week, “72 Hours” — about a 40-year-old who gloms on to a bachelor party of some 20-somethings and finds himself wrapped up in quite the ordeal — isn’t nearly as funny as director Todd Phillips’ 2009 bachelor party-centric romp starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis.
TV review | Anya Taylor-Joy keeps Apple TV’s ‘Lucky’ series going (opens the original)
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We meet Luciana “Lucky” Armstrong — Anya Taylor-Joy’s titular heroine in the Apple TV limited series “Lucky,” which has debuted on the streaming service — as she’s running between and scurrying under semi-trailers. “Stop now!” commands an FBI agent who is pointing his firearm at her. We then cut to black in the first of seven intermittently enjoyable but short of engrossing installments of the crime thriller about a woman trained to be a con by her father. Taylor-Joy (“The Queen’s Gambit,” “The
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