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Director Chris Columbus, whose previous directing credits include “Home Alone” and the first two movies of the “Harry Potter” series, has yet again released a film that has a one-of-a-kind thrill with “Pixels“. Imagine Ghostbusters, only with...

And like “Transformers”, “Pixels” has 1980’s nostalgia going for it. More than 30 years ago, NASA sent a time capsule into space that included popular arcade games, but the aliens misinterpreted the gesture as an act of war.

Sandler is so inert through such wildly outlandish situations, that it nearly feels like Pixels is designed, beneath the video-game adventure and shameless ’80s pandering, as a vehicle for Adan Sandler to express his self-loathing. Set in the near future, Sandler’s...