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Neighbors 2: Sorority rising: EW review

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/17/neighbors-2-sorority-rising-review

1) Entertainment Weekly
2) Leah Greenblatt
3) 7
4) It still has lots of hilarious moments that will make you laugh
5) It never really has any heartfelt moments and is only ever raunchy
6) The girls never develop cohesive personalities, and the slapstick-heavy script—credited, tellingly, to five different writers—quickly tosses out any semblance of pacing, pinballing from one raunchy punchline to the next. (The goofy sweetness of Rogen and Byrne’s interplay has also been sidelined, and the visual gags are a lot gaggier, in both senses of the word.) You’ll probably laugh hard more than once; Sorority Rising is still rich in bikinis and bong rips and boner jokes. It just doesn’t have much heart. C+


Jane Austen Fits Whit Stillman like a glove in the witty Love & Friendship

http://www.avclub.com/review/jane-austen-fits-whit-stillman-glove-witty-love-fr-236454

1) AV club
2) Mike D'Angelo
3) 8
4) The cast does very well and makes the audience have a lot of laughs
5) There wasn't much of story and it lacked emotion
6) The result sounds roughly 80 percent like her and 20 percent like him, a pretty delectable ratio. What’s lacking is the deft plotting and emotional complexity of Austen’s great works. There really isn’t much of a story here—the main question is whether Reginald will heed his sister’s warnings regarding Lady Susan or fall into her trap, and he’s too ill-defined as a character for the answer to seem consequential. It’s fun to watch Lady Susan bulldoze her way through 18th-century propriety, but an entire film of wry breeziness is a bit like a seven-course meal that’s all sumptuous desserts. There’s a reason why Austen left this manuscript in the trunk.