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Christopher Lawrence

Christopher Lawrence is the movie critic for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
clawrence@reviewjournal.com … @life_onthecouch on Twitter. 702-380-4567

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Jimmy Kimmel embraces the challenge of hosting the Oscars

Hosting the Academy Awards is a bit like dating Taylor Swift. Pretty much everybody in show business wants to give it a try, but it almost never ends well.

Las Vegan discovers fame, happiness as female impersonator

You know you’ve made it as a female impersonator when you get recognized in public. Even when you aren’t in character. Martin Cooper’s visibility will be raised even further when he competes on “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars.”

Muddled ‘Hands of Stone’ doesn’t pack much punch

Roberto Duran was famously known for having hands of stone. But in the hands of writer-director Jonathan Jakubowicz, the legendary Panamanian boxer also has all the charisma of a bag of wet sand.

Home-invasion thriller ‘Don’t Breathe’ is a shockingly good time

With its “Home Alone”-style house of horrors, “Don’t Breathe” almost never goes where you’d expect. And it’s exhilarating in the way it manages to keep topping itself with new levels of twistedness.

Dirty-cop drama ‘Triple 9’ squanders cast’s considerable talents

The cast of the crooked-cop drama “Triple 9” boasts an Oscar winner and three other nominees, a three-time Emmy winner and an additional nominee, an Avenger, a member of the Justice League and the breakout star of “The Walking Dead.” The lesson? Everybody has bills to pay.

‘Ted 2,’ like its hero’s midsection, is overstuffed

The sequel is part buddy comedy, part road trip, part courtroom drama and part goofy action spectacle. But none of the genres is given the time to be sufficiently, satisfyingly explored, despite the movie’s way-too-long 115-minute running time.

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