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One of the most acclaimed horror movies of all time is 'The Babadook'. The film is top-notch, but it still incorporates one of the worst cliches in modern movies.

"Unstoppable," in theaters now, shortchanges the inspiring story of Anthony Robles by overloading it with sports and movie cliches.

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War-movie clichés have been rigorously rooted out of “Warfare,” a terse and chillingly brutal immersion in a moment of the Iraq War.

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