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Film Reviews: New Releases for June 13
How to Train Your Dragon, Materialists, The Life of Chuck, The Unholy Trinity, Echo Valley
Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal in Materialists Echo Valley **1/2 One thing I desperately wish for the screenwriters of the world is that they would spend as much time trying to craft a compelling dramatic story as they spent trying to outsmart their viewers.
You can see that sense of misplaced priorities in Brad Ingelsby's script set on a horse farm where Kate Garretson (Julianne Moore), still mourning the recent death of her wife, most also deal with the latest crisis of her drug-addicted daughter Claire (Sydney Sweeney), who owes money to her dealer, Jackie (Domnhall Gleeson).
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