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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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“The Skeleton Twins” An Uncannily Convincing Portrait of Dysfunctional Siblings
I recall reading an interview with Bill Murray a couple years back in which he praised the then-current cast of Saturday Night Live. (Of course I can’t find it right now for reference purposes, because searching for anything on the Internet related to Bill Mur...
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“I Am Eleven” An Inoffensive, Lazy New Documentary Six Years in the Making
Far be it from me to claim being the ultimate authority on the subject, but when distinguishing between good and bad documentaries, so much popular consensus falls short. The subject matter and engaging “performances” by its subjects can do much to uphold othe...
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“The Green Prince” A Slickly Made But Simplistic Israel/Palestine Documentary
The Green Prince has arrived in theaters at a spectacularly bad time. Israeli/Palestinian relations are always a touchy subject, but this documentary is coming out just a few weeks after the latest Israeli bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip wrapped up. More th...
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