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Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), third from left, makes a disturbing discovery in “Angels & Demons.” |
What a pretentious pile of populist pablum.
“Angels & Demons,” Ron Howard’s frantic and superficial follow-up to his talky 2006 hit “The Da Vinci Code,” races from one formula Hollywood cliché to the next, hoping that blinding narrative speed will compensate for drab, sketchy characters and a plot that could easily be mistaken for a chunk of Swiss cheese. (Read more…)