Kick-Ass is a nasty, curdled piece of work, despite extraordinary performances from Nicolas Cage and Chloe Grace Moretz as a rather unusual father-daughter team.
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Burt Reynolds is the world’s greatest stuntman in 1978’s Hooper, a wildly entertaining tribute to stuntmen that’s stuntman-turned-director Hal Needham’s deeply personal masterpiece.
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Mario Van Peebles pays all too reverent tribute to his legendary dad in Baadasssss!, a deeply conventional tribute to breaking all the rules.
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Rodney Dangerfield ended his career playing God in a movie about a dead George Burns, and that's one of the least crazy, shitty elements of it.
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Jack. Triumph. Are you NOT entertained?
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Some thoughts on the fine line between reverent tribute and ghoulish exploitation
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