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- Citizenfour – a fascinating and important topic, but a disappointing documentary
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- 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
Author Archives: roguespirit
When in Rome – Christ!
This film is unwatchable. We lasted ten minutes. The scene with the vase is the most pathetically unfunny comic scene I’ve witnessed in ages. It’s so bad I feel completely confident condemning the entire movie on the basis on that … Continue reading
Posted in 2010
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a challenging book to turn into a movie because so much of the book’s charm is Bloomkvist’s long, slow, twisting research process, and slowly getting to know Salander’s bizarre personality. I think that … Continue reading
Posted in 2009, 2010
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Green Zone – pretty feeble
What can I say about this movie. It’s not bad, I guess. Its story is just so simplistic and uninspired, and the action is pretty ho-hum also.The preview was edited to make it look like Jason Bourne light, but really … Continue reading
Posted in 2010
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City Island – a fun and enjoyable movie
My wife and I both really enjoyed City Island, more than we expected to. It is gathering steam as a summer sleeper movie, and I can see why. It’s funny, honest, even a bit moving, and has wonderful performances across … Continue reading
Posted in 2010
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The Secret in Their Eyes – Absolutely fabulous!!!
God, what a movie! Why can’t Hollywood make movies like this?! My wife and I talked animatedly about this film for hours afterward. We were both floored. The last film I saw that I liked this much was Tell No … Continue reading
Posted in 2010
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Solitary Man – a good, enjoyable film
I don’t really care for Michael Douglas as an actor, but in his old age he has taken a few quirky roles that really allow him to transcend the plastic seriousness that has plagued his career all his life. He … Continue reading
Posted in 2010
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Letters to Juliet – Bad romantic fluff
When my wife and I got through watching this movie, she turned to me and said “I guess 13 Going On 30 was Gary Winick’s one good movie,” to which I replied “it helped that 13 Going On 30 had … Continue reading
Posted in 2010
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The Young Victoria – it’s okay
The Young Victoria is an okay movie. It’s somewhat entertaining and decently put together. Performances are solid across the board. The music is a little overdone, and I found it distracting that Victoria’s main theme is also the theme used … Continue reading
Posted in 2009
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Date Night – funny and enjoyable
My wife and I went to the opening of Date Night at the 19th street theater in Manhattan. The theater was packed with young couples on “date nights,” which my wife observed is because we are all DESPERATE for something … Continue reading
Posted in 2010
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Love Happens – how bad is a movie if you shut it off right before the climactic scene?
A while ago, my wife and I watched a little B-film from 2009 called The Answer Man, where Jeff Daniels plays a famous author who years ago wrote a big-selling spiritual book but now is a irascible, screwed-up recluse who … Continue reading
Posted in 2009
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