Category: Films
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Danger! Stay out of the ‘Safe House’
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No one and nothing is safe in Safe House including the audience
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‘One For The Money’ isn’t worth the cash
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In the end this ones best for viewing as a cheap matinee — if that.
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‘The Descendants’ is A++ material
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The complexities of life and family are complicated even in paradise.
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‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ is a thing of beauty
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The story of a financial journalist with nothing left to lose and a strange intense female investigator who wants to help him succeed in solving a decades old mystery.
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‘Hugo’ is made for the big screen 3D
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Somewhere in the middle of Hugo I could have sworn I heard Martin Scorsese giggle. Though the story is about a young orphaned boy living in a Paris train station the underlying story is about…
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‘Puzzle’ puts all the right pieces together
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A woman finds meaning not from her children who ignore her or her husband who patronizes her but from the puzzles she has a gift as putting together.
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‘Something Borrowed’ should have borrowed better characters
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Adapted from the Emily Giffen novel this mediocre romantic comedy is hardly something new.
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‘Thor’ hammers out a darn good movie
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The movie that could easily have sank Marvel’s efforts to build their comic book characters into legitimate film franchises may very well turn out to be one of their best. Thor had the odds stacked…
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‘Every Little Step’ documentary has two left feet
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I really wanted this documentary about the creation of the musical A Chorus Line to be a singular sensation. Unfortunately it just never quite earned a standing ovation.