Articles by Kevin Scott

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  Fist Fight

  Directed by Richie Keen

  PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2017

  Even though it clocks in at around 90 minutes, Fist Fight is the kind of slight and uneven comedy that feels like it should only have been...

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  Office Christmas Party

  Directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck

  PUBLISHED Dec 9, 2016

  As is so often the case with parties, the moderate pleasures of the comedy Office Christmas Party can be found not so much in what happens...

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  Loving

  Directed by Jeff Nichols

  PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2016

  The opening scenes of Loving slowly and tenderly paint a picture of the insular bubble of domestic bliss enveloping a couple, the aptly nam...

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  Kevin Hart: What Now?

  Directed by Leslie Small and Tim Story

  PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2016

  There comes a point in the career of every wildly successful stand-up comedian where it's increasingly difficult to tell where the merits o...

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  Pete's Dragon

  Directed by David Lowery

  PUBLISHED Aug 12, 2016

  To call a film like Pete's Dragon "simple" or "old-fashioned" could easily be interpreted as a slight against the adaptation of the forgott...

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  How to Build a Time Machine

  Directed by Jay Cheel

  PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2016

  In Jay Cheel's absorbing and frequently amusing documentary How to Build a Time Machine, Ron Mallett and Robert Niosi are two men going abo...

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  Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

  Directed by Jake Szymanski

  PUBLISHED Jul 7, 2016

  Cobbled together as if by aliens who had just binge-watched the entire Judd Apatow canon, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates takes a juvenile...

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  Central Intelligence

  Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber

  PUBLISHED Jun 17, 2016

  Continuing Kevin Hart's ultra-safe quest to become a movie star by plugging himself into familiar action-comedies featuring mismatched duos...