9 years ago
Reviews (10 posts found)
‘Her’ Is As Cold As A Computer Program
Spike Jonze's meditation on loneliness is as ugly and antiseptic as the technology it depicts.
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‘Anchorman 2’ Suffers From The Comedy Sophomore Slump
The sequel shows flashes of intelligent satire but ultimately becomes a redundant retread.
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‘Saving Mr. Banks’ Hates Its Lead Character
At one point in Saving Mr. Banks, author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) looks at what writers from Walt Disney Studios have done to one of her characters and asks why they've made him so terrible. Watching this film, I wondered the same thing about its treatment...
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‘Paradise: Hope’ Is An Unshapely Fat Camp Prison Movie
The third film in Seidl's "Paradise" trilogy is unfortunately the weakest entry.
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‘American Hustle’ Pulls The Wool Over Our Eyes to Great Delight
Director David O. Russell has crafted another instant classic.
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‘The Desolation of Smaug’ Adds A Small Burst of Life to ‘The Hobbit’
The second film in the new trilogy still doesn't live up to the Lord Of The Rings films, but it's an improvement over its predecessor.
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‘The Last Days On Mars’ Is As Generic As Its Title
Ruairi Robinson's feature debut is a bad horror film with a change of scenery.
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‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ is One of the Coens’ Best Shaggy Dog Stories
Warning: contains spoilers
In Inside Llewyn Davis, the titular protagonist (Oscar Isaac) is yet another one of Coens’ unlucky characters, bewildered by the cruel twists of fate. But what separates Davis—loosely based on folk musician Dave Van Ronk—from the ...
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‘Out of the Furnace’: A Sore Disappointment
Out of the Furnace saddens me. It's a movie that fights so hard to be great, only to wind up stranded in some middling zone of effectiveness. It has a concept and story that I want to work, told by a cast and crew of artists whom I almost uniformly like or lov...
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‘The Punk Singer’ Is A Candy-Colored Tribute To Rock’s Most Uncompromising Heroine
An intoxicating look at punk icon Kathleen Hanna.
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