Category: Films
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‘This is 40’ is funny… but not that funny
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This isn’t the first movie about the trauma of turning 40, and it doesn’t even really have anything new to say about it.
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‘Promised Land’ is a vanity project that doesn’t dig very deep
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Beneath the t-shirts, jeans and flannel, this film is a vanity project for Matt Damon and John Krasinski.
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Reach for the popcorn as you enjoy ‘Jack Reacher’
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This is a Tom Cruise “vanity” piece and that’s okay when the actor gives the audience a great experience. He’s done so here.
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‘Zero Dark Thirty’ is Kathryn Bigelow’s masterpiece
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This incredible film raises the bar for military thrillers and future films in that genre will have to work extraordinarily hard to even come close to this masterpiece.
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‘Wreck-It Ralph’ is a candy-coated delight
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One need not be a huge gamer to enjoy this deliriously entertaining family film.
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‘Hyde Park on Hudson’: Driving a different kind of Miss Daisy
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Despite praiseworthy costumes and loving cinematography, this film is severely bipolar.
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‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ is good… but should have stayed true to J.R.R. Tolkien’s book
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This isn’t a bad movie, but Peter Jackson would have been wiser to keep to the book and not try and turn it into a bloated trilogy.
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Alan Cumming delivers brilliant performance in ‘Any Day Now’
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A powerful, compelling film that is very loosely based on a true story from the late 1970s.
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You might not be spellbound by ‘Hitchcock’
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Who would have thought that of all things, ‘Hitchcock’ would turn out to be primarily a romance?
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‘Fitzgerald Family Christmas’ could use a bit more luck of the Irish
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Film suffers from an overload of characters battling an anemic script.