9 years ago
Reviews (10 posts found)
“A Walk Among the Tombstones” Review
From a distance, A Walk Among the Tombstones looks an awful lot like "generic Liam Neeson actioner #1,075", but that's only a half-accurate first impression. Oh, Neeson grumbles and sneers, dispassionate to the world around him and ambivalent about his mortali...
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“Keep On Keepin’ On” Review
Keep On Keepin’ On is one of those documentaries with a story that would cause most viewers to roll their eyes if it were put into a fiction film. A legendary jazz musician mentors a young musical prodigy, all while he suffers from failing health and the stude...
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“Pump” Review
Environmentally and socially conscious documentaries often remind us, with a healthy dose of urgency and even anger, that there's no time to waste when encouraging the responsible consumption of natural resources and exploring new alleys of achieving environme...
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“The Guest” Review
A low-budget groove. A synthy soundtrack. Garish purple titling in a splattery font. A love of just-as-splattery violence. The Guest is, from head to toe, a throwback to cult ‘80s cinema. You can practically picture writer Simon Barrett and director Adam Winga...
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“Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?” Review
“The left hopes no one goes to the theater this weekend. They don’t want their own collectivist mentality compared with Rand’s belief in the individual. They do not want her integrity of thought to reach the sunlight. The result of their philosophy is the mess...
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“The Zero Theorem” Waltzes Through Disconnection
The Zero Theorem's first 20 minutes or so are an endurance test. If you can withstand the film's introductory sensory assault, then you can reasonably withstand the rest of it. But the ride remains jarring even when the edges smooth on Terry Gilliam's latest t...
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You’re Going to Lose that Girl, “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them”
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them is not just a mouthful to say, but it's a heartbreak to watch. The movie is a Frankenstein monster from the depths of Dr. Weinstein 's lab, an executive order to stitch together the two separate movies of The Disappeara...
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“The Drop” Features Stock Human Performances And An Exuberant Pit Bull
I have to suppress the urge to simply state that The Drop features copious material of Tom Hardy interacting with a puppy and then drop the mic. I feel like this should be enough of a draw for any prospective moviegoer. In a movie that features Hardy, the late...
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“Bird People” Battles Loneliness, Finds Hope
One of the weird paradoxes of film is that those experiences that are the most common and often meaningful in our daily lives are almost impossible to evoke visually in a real and engaging way. The most difficult acts to represent on film in a realistic way ar...
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“Honeymoon” A Phony, Unrelentingly Silly Horror-Suspense Yarn
Honeymoon — or the more aptly titled, I’m Fine, Really —is an unrelentingly dough-headed horror-suspense yarn dressed up in the saggy skin of a relationship parable. It might help if the couple in the spotlight were one worth investing in, one that reflected a...
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