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  Review by davidehrlich ★★ 23

  1. GHOSTBUSTERS, whether good or bad, doesn’t need to be a referendum on female-driven comedies so long as we keep making them anyway.

  2. it gives me no pleasure to report that GHOSTBUSTERS is a lazy, uninspired rehash of pre-existing iconography. at a certain point in the movie, the ghostbusters are attacked by their own logo — i sure know how they feel. ironically (in light of the misogyny directed its way), the gender-swap is the only thing this movie has going for it.

  3. per Daniel Fienberg: "Nobody’ll buy this, but: If you pre-judge something for a year based on nothing, even if it *does* suck, it doesn’t mean you were 'right.'"

  4. Kate McKinnon is indeed delightful, even…

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  Review by isabelle ☆ ★★★★★ 12

  KATE MCKINNON LICKING THE GUN > ALL OF CINEMATIC HISTORY

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  Review by feat. dante from the dmc series ★★★★★ 6

  (hannibal buress voice) SEVEN STARS!!!

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★ 55

  71/100

  Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, and Chris Hemsworth. Ghostbusters: Answer the Call has one hell of a cast up its sleeve, and this reboot/nostalgia hybrid succeeds because of the joke-after-joke-after-joke chemistry molded through Paul Feig's streak of modern, witty comedies. He has a knack for taking a room full of varied characters and supplying humor in sharp, frequent bursts. It's a film of improvisation, goofy personalities, spooky thrills, and a gigantic save the city climax. Robert Yeoman's cinematography in particular is brightly fluid and colorful, capturing the otherworldly beauty of portals, silly ghostbusting contraptions, and the various haunted locals with a degree of grace and style. It feels - and looks - like a fun horror…

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★★ 6

  SHE LICKED THE GUN

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 31

  It feels... empty? There is a disconnect here, something wrong with this film that resides, I think at this time, in the characters. In the dialogue, which is as far from human as possible while still being recognizable words. In the pacing, which gives no time for motivation and development to breath, no time for the world to come alive. Something is introduced, then it is whisked away, making it seem less like settings and myth-building, and more like excuses. The foreshadowing is lacking, perhaps, in the things that will turn out to matter. It doesn't come with surprises; it just makes the film feel abbreviated (despite an engorged runtime).

  Perhaps it's the manner of the humor. I don't think…

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  Review by Gonzo ★ 17

  ▶ Gonzo's 2016 Movie Rankings

  Is it good?
  Really sad to say this, but no, it isn't.

  But... But Rotten Tomatoes...
  Rotten Tomatoes is broken.

  But some are saying it's just as good as the original...
  Yeah, I'm not even a huge fan of the original, but even I'd say that's blasphemy. You'd have to be ashamed of yourself if you think 2016 Ghostbusters is just as good or better than 1984 Ghostbusters. I'd love to read a detailed analysis on how one could come to that conclusion, because I couldn't think of a single thing that this movie does better. You can't say it's funnier. You can't say the story's any better. You definitely can't say the characters are…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★ 4

  Paul Feig is evidently good at getting talented performers to stand around in a room improv-ing one-liners, but he has always been terrible at making actual movies out of that. This is another one that looks like crap and has no pace to speak of. It makes the already extremely loose original seem like a tightly structured clockwork narrative by comparison. Audience ate it up though, so what do I know?

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  Review by indi ★★★★★ 2

  oh yes oh yes oh yes she licked oh yes she licked oh yes she licked the gun the gun the gun the gun the gun oh yes she really fuckin just licked that gun oh yes oh yes oh yes she licked oh yes she licked oh yes she licked the gun the gun the gun the gun the gun oh yes she really fuckin just licked that gun

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  Review by luke livermore ★★★ 5

  Crazy how this is one of the best movies ever made. Ghostbusters (1984)? Shook. Every Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, and David Fincher film? Shook. Citizen Kane? Shook. The film industry in general? Shook.

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  Review by russman ★★★ 5

  The scariest part of this movie was that Fall Out Boy theme song

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  Review by josh lewis ★★ 7

  now that the Discourse™ has passed let me tell you i am very glad to live in these truly progressive times where women can make mediocre blockbuster franchise schlock with portals in the sky too... only inspired moment was the mutilation of iconography in the finale, other than that it's another overly-lit, improvisational studio comedy with funny people saying funny words sometimes in between 2nd-unit footage. absolutely not worth getting up in arms about (worth noting i have never much cared for original film so ymmv), but not worth making an important industry conversation martyr either. mostly just made me wanna rewatch Spy.

  [insert giant, ghost-possessed shrug emoji]