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A dark fantasy for young people features Felicity Jones and Liam Neeson’s voice. Continue reading Review: ‘A Monster Calls’
A dark fantasy for young people features Felicity Jones and Liam Neeson’s voice. Continue reading Review: ‘A Monster Calls’
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Many movies aspire to be live-action cartoons, but few succeed as well as Joe Carnahan’s big screen version of The A-Team.
The action sequences are informed by lunacy. Instead of ink and paint and word balloons, the raw materials are CGI, stunt doubles and constant wisecracks. It’s a diverting mixture, and proves to be satisfying entertainment for genre fans who prize explosive weapons above all else. When you see a crack team of ex-Army Rangers parachuting out of an exploding cargo plane while strapped inside a huge tank and under attack from drone planes, you may think you’ve seen it all. But that’s only the first act.