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- Good Kill – An artistic exploration of drone assassinations
- Citizenfour – a fascinating and important topic, but a disappointing documentary
- Interstellar – Probably the best film of the year, certainly the most enjoyable!
- Laggies – a delightful little film about late-blooming misfits
- Two Days, One Night – it’s (almost) exactly what you expect it to be
- Whiplash – a disgusting, stupidly manipulative piece of absurdity.
- Still Alice – big stars, big production, but still just a Hallmark movie of the week
- Wild – it’s surprisingly well-made and fun to watch
- Black Sea – diverting, but sadly predictable
- Birdman (Or the Expected Emptiness of Pretension)
- Mr. Turner – Planet of the Ape
- The Imitation Game – It’s an abomination
- A Brief Word on the 2014 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts
- Kill The Messenger – The important and tragic story of Gary Webb, the mainstream media, and the CIA
- This is Where I Leave You – the latest in a long line of “family reunion” movies
- A review of summer cinema – it was pretty grim!
- The Trip to Italy – It never should have been made
- A Most Wanted Man – Superficially entertaining, but poorly-made and overrated
- Magic in the Moonlight – It’s pissing me off!
- The Purge: Anarchy – Surprisingly, it’s rather good
- I Origins – ambitious and entertaining
- Boyhood – a bit one dimensional, but its one dimension is lovely, impressive and fun to experience
- Obvious Child – cute, dignified and gutsy
- Snowpiercer – a fantastic, riveting science fiction action allegory
- Edge of Tomorrow – it’s fairly entertaining
- Begin Again – confronting the future of pop music head-on
- The Fault in Our Stars – not super-moving, but definitely enjoyable
- Hellion – a gritty tale of fucked up parents and children
- Night Moves – a cool, subtle portrayal of hippy-liberal activism turned violent
- Cold In July – an outstandingly fun and unusual film, and a paean for the 1980s
- Austenland – so horrible, I’m speechless
- Elena – 80 minutes of torture
- Lucky Them – Toni Collette takes center stage and lights up the screen!
- Belle – it means well, but God is it slow (and dull)
- Finding Vivian Maier – an okay documentary on a fascinating artist
- The German Doctor (Wakolda) – Diverting, but feels more than a little contrived
- Chef – it’s heart is in the right place
- Jodorowsky’s Dune – a bizarre and amazing documentary
- Hateship, Loveship – it goes down well
- Divergent – entertaining, but there’s a lot wrong with it
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Good Kill – An artistic exploration of drone assassinations
Good Kill is a movie about military pilots at Creech Air Force Base outside Las Vegas who remotely fly drones over the Middle East and blow people up with missiles. It’s the first movie I’ve seen that attempts to explore … Continue reading
Posted in 2015
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Citizenfour – a fascinating and important topic, but a disappointing documentary
Citizenfour is without question an extremely important topic for a documentary. I would even go so far as to say that humanity’s decision on Ed Snowden and his whistleblowing/treason will probably presage the future of the entire human race. If … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
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Interstellar – Probably the best film of the year, certainly the most enjoyable!
Interstellar is an amazingly captivating film. Conceptually sprawling, fearlessly wonky in its ideas and its dialog, and grounded by a superb performance by Matthew McConaughey (he is way better than he looked in the trailer, I should point out), this … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
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Laggies – a delightful little film about late-blooming misfits
I get the impression that large segments of the population absolutely despise Keira Knightley. I think she is one hell of an underrated actress – about the only bad performance I’ve ever seen her give was in The Imitation Game (for which she … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
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Two Days, One Night – it’s (almost) exactly what you expect it to be
I was quite interested to see Two Days, One Night because it deals with social themes affecting average people. Marion Cotillard plays a factory worker in a small solar panel plant who is laid off when the boss gives her 16 … Continue reading
Posted in 2010
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Whiplash – a disgusting, stupidly manipulative piece of absurdity.
I honestly can’t believe this film is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture (or for Best Supporting Actor, for that matter). I can’t believe that critics are falling over themselves to praise it. Whiplash is worse than a … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
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Still Alice – big stars, big production, but still just a Hallmark movie of the week
My main reaction to Still Alice was anger. Anger that our government, and the governments of the world, spend trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars on these endless fucking wars – wars we are told are so damn important, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
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Wild – it’s surprisingly well-made and fun to watch
I went into Wild with pretty low expectations, mainly because my wife did not care for the book. We mainly went to see Reese’s performance, both being big Reese Witherspoon fans. But the film exceeded expectations in almost every way, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
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Black Sea – diverting, but sadly predictable
We’re finally kicking off the 2015 movie season here at Irreviews with Black Sea, a movie in which Jude Law plays ex-navy guy piloting submarines for a marine salvage outfit, until he is unceremoniously downsized in the first scene of … Continue reading
Posted in 2010
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Birdman (Or the Expected Emptiness of Pretension)
I’ll give Birdman one thing: they did write a ton of dialog for it. But it’s amazing how little materializes from all that dialog in the course of the film. We are offered an abundance of scenes with various characters … Continue reading
Posted in 2010
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