In a year of reboots ranging from entertaining (“Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Jurassic World”) to dreadful (“Vacation,” “Terminator Genisys”), “Creed” may be the most surprising one yet.
Christopher Lawrence
Christopher Lawrence is the movie critic for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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For all the noise we make on New Year’s Eve, Las Vegas doesn’t have much in the way of Christmas traditions.
It isn’t quite as foolhardy as asking a teenage girl to lead a rebellion against a brutal police state. But it’s close.
One of the biggest drawbacks to adapting a series of books for the big screen, especially with the obligatory splitting of the final novel into two movies, is the lack of closure.
AMC abandoned its original moniker, American Movie Classics, long before it started churning out some of TV’s finest dramas.
Bored. Just bored. That’s the best way to describe sitting through “SPECTRE,” the butt-numbing extension of “Skyfall” that plods along ground so familiar, it’s easy to see how Daniel Craig could have grown tired of playing James Bond.
As a movie, “Diamonds Are Forever” is mediocre at best. Based on critics’ scores, Rotten Tomatoes ranks it as the 16th best of the 23 official James Bond movies leading up to Friday’s release of “SPECTRE.” (“Dr. No” finished first, “A View to a Kill” last.)
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