Despite equal parts makeover and romcom, Sisterhood, Inc. is no She’s All That. After being ousted from the company she founded, and desperately in need of a project, Megan (Rachael Leigh Cook) recruits a board of life coaches (Rosa Gilmore, Steve Schirripa, Jackie Hoffman, and Leonidas Gulaptis) to fix the life of her screw-up younger sister Izzy (Daniella Monet).
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For a thriller starring both Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, The Housemaid is surprisingly lacking in heat or anything resembling eroticism. Sure, we get one sex scene halfway through, but even that seems perfunctory more than adding life into the bewildering thriller that throws out its playbook halfway through, spends 20 minutes speaking directly to the audience setting up an alternative permise, and then finally delivers something more deverting in its final 20 minutes.
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Adapted from the novel of the same name, and with more than a passing resemblance to Alfred Hitchcock‘s The Lady Vanishes, Keira Knightly stars as investigative journalist Laura Blacklock who, after a rough assignment, takes a posh assignment covering a group of the uber-rich on a private yacht. Things go wrong when Laura witnesses what she believes is a murder onboard, only for no one found to be missing and none of the crew nor the other guests willing to believe her story.
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Jingle Bell Heist isn’t a great heist movie, or a great Christmas movie, or a great romcom, although the film attempts, and fails at, all three. You can at least give it points for consistency, I guess.
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Created more as obstacles than people, I had forgotten how aggravating all the supporting characters of Percy Jackson and the Olympians could be whether they be friend or foe. The DNA of these stories is that no one is capable of taking on the challenge outside of our hero and his friends, mostly through neglect, casual disinterest, or sheer stupidity. Percy Jackson and the Olympians is back, and little has changed.
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