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Max Weiss

Max Weiss is the editor-in-chief of Baltimore and a film and pop culture critic. You can catch her movie reviews here and at Rotten Tomatoes and read her thoughts on everything from last night’s episode of Ru Paul’s Drag Race to the latest Godard film @maxthegirl on X (formerly Twitter). She also plays a mean cello.

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Review: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

Tom Cruise is just the man for the job (again) in the latest, high-flying installment of the Mission Impossible franchise.

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Review: Paper Towns

The would be romance is bogus, but Nat Wolff is a star.

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Review: Southpaw

Antoine Fuqua's sentimental boxing film is corny, derivative—and satisfying.

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Review: Trainwreck

Amy Schumer flips the script on rom-com cliches.

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Review: Ant-Man

It's Paul Rudd's time to join the Marvel Universe. Whatever.

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Review: Minions

They're tiny. They're evil. They're adorable.

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Friday Replay: Crush Gets Robbed (Twice)

And four other things that happened in sports this week.

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Review: Amy

Heartbreaking documentary on Amy Winehouse plays like a horror film where the monster is fame.

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Review: Dope

Funny and sly comedy about life as a "geek" in the 'hood.

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Magic Mike XXL

Bigger isn't better in this pandering sequel.

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Review: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Independent film's answer to The Fault in Our Stars is clever but insincere.

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Review: Max

A boy, his dog . . . and a really lame script.

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Review: Inside Out

Pixar meets Freud in this breathtakingly inventive comedy.

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Review: Love & Mercy

A penetrating look at the genius and personal demons of The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson.

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Review: Jurassic World

The gender stereotypes are dinosaurs, too.

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Review: Spy

Just call her McCarthy. Melissa McCarthy.

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Review: Entourage

The boys are back. They should've stayed away.

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Aloha

In this case, Aloha definitely means goodbye.

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Review: San Andreas

Even silly disaster films need a little perspective.

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Pitch Perfect 2

A happy pill in cinematic form.

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Tomorrowland

Family friendly sci-fi starts out magical, gets bogged down by a moralizing and uninspired third act.

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The Closure I Get…

Some thoughts on the Mad Men finale.