Review: Celeste and Jesse Forever
[This review was originally published as part of our coverage of the Sundance Film Festival. It has been reposted to coincide with the film’s ...
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Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The very idea of a 9/11 movie is still unsettling and, frankly, unappealing. No one is going to wander up to a ticket ...
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Review: Contraband
Have you even wished that you could go back to a state of cinematic infancy? By that I refer to a tabula rasa ...
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Review: The Iron Lady
Good performances in bad movies come along more often than one would think. The fact is there are good actors out there who ...
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Review: Time Expired
We live in an era of films where the comedies attempt to invoke an emotional attachment between its protagonist and the audience. It’s ...
Review: The Grey
The Grey has had some of the most fantastically misleading trailers in recent memory. That needs to get out of the way right ...
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Review: The Devil Inside
I’ve seen my fair share of both found footage movies and exorcism movies. I’ve enjoyed some (The Last Exorcism, Grave Encounters, Paranormal Activity ...
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Review: The Divide
I love the kinds of stories that are possible with a post-apocalyptic setting. It’s just one of those places where you can have ...
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Review: A Separation
It’s never a nice feeling thinking you’re going to dislike a movie that is widely beloved. I felt like A Separation was going to ...
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Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
I’ve gone on record stating that American remakes of foreign movies are about as stupid an idea as mixing scotch with vodka. Look ...
Review: Young Adult
In reviewing a movie like Young Adult, you have to understand something first to really put things in perspective. Not everyone’s going to ...
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Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
When the first Sherlock Holmes film hit I was pleasantly surprised by both its quality and its take on the character. While it wasn’t ...