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‘Lone Survivor’: Dishonoring The Fallen
There are two halves to Peter Berg's new film, an adaptation of former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell's nonfiction novel Lone Survivor, that make approaching its content difficult at best: one represents the face of the picture that amounts to slickly made glorific...
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These ’47 Ronin’ Are Pretty Boring Guys
One of the most imaginative worlds in recent blockbuster films is populated by one-dimensional plot devices.
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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’: Sex, Lies, and Lemons
Martin Scorsese’s pictures wade through the darkness of the human soul, but rarely has his viewpoint been as bleak – as hopeless, really – as it is in The Wolf of Wall Street. The man, one of the American cinema’s living national treasures, has built a cinemat...
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‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom’ Is Destined to Be Played in High School Classrooms For Years to Come
Justin Chadwick's biopic is a well-made but sadly simplistic vision of a complex and truly inspiring figure.
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‘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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