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Category Archives: 2010
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
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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
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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
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The Imitation Game – It’s an abomination
I find the prospect of reviewing The Imitation Game so dreary I can hardly bare it. This movie takes the very interesting story of how the Nazi Enigma code was broken, and turns it into a tedious harangue, the sole … Continue reading
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Snowpiercer – a fantastic, riveting science fiction action allegory
Sociopolitical science fiction has been all but dead for a long time now. For fifty years, there’s been no successor to the horrifying visions of writers like Orwell, Bradbury, and Huxley, and at the same time those visions have somehow … Continue reading
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Begin Again – confronting the future of pop music head-on
Begin Again is a movie about the joy of making music and living a life enriched by music. It’s a movie that captures the roll pop music used to play as a bonding agent between humans, especially romantically, and offers up … Continue reading
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The Wolf of Wall Street – it’s quite a spectacle, but a deeply irresponsible one
On the surface, The Wolf of Wall Street is your typical outrageous Martin Scorsese picture, a much more extreme rehash of the basic story idea of Scorsese’s Goodfellas – criminals living the wild high life, until it all comes crashing down … Continue reading
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Passion (2013) / Love Crime (2010) – DePalma remakes a so-so film into a terrible film!
Short Review: Love Crime is okay; Passion sucks donkey balls. If you must see one, see Love Crime. But trust me, you’re not missing much if you see neither of them. Masochistic Review: I went to see Brian DePalma’s Passion because it … Continue reading
The To Do List – a raunchy but cute teenage sex film
The To Do List is not great, but it’s better than your typical teenage sex film. Its story is basically realistic and coherent, the humor is raunchy but stays fairly dignified, the characters are pretty well-conceived across the board, the … Continue reading
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The Big Picture (L’homme qui voulait vivre sa vie) (2010) – it kind of haunts you
The Big Picture is not your average movie. It’s surprising, thought-provoking, it creeps up on you. It’s kind of haunting. I liked it. The film is about a lawyer who abandoned his artistic ambitions long ago, and instead started a … Continue reading
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