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- 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
Category Archives: 2013
Warm Bodies – it is indeed way better than it looks
Everyone we talked to told us that Warm Bodies was way better than it looked. They were right, it is way better than it looks. It’s a good, entertaining and enjoyable little movie. I’m not a big fan of the … Continue reading
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Girl Most Likely – yet another pretty good anti-rich-people movie gets panned by the critics
My wife and I have this theory that professional reviewers tend to pan movies that present rich people in an unfavorable light. I’m not talking about movies where rich people are the villains, but they are also presented as sexy … Continue reading
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Stuck In Love – It’s surprisingly good.
Stuck in Love is a very nicely done film about a family of writers, each struggling with different aspects of falling in love and staying in love. It has a solid and interesting (if not transcendent or super-moving) story, with … Continue reading
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The Attack – Simply outstanding!
The Attack is one of those films that restores your faith in movies as an art form, answering in the affirmative the question “does anyone know how to really make a movie anymore?” Apparently Ziad Doueiri does. It is a great … Continue reading
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The Way Way Back – an enjoyable little film about kids and their fucked up parents
The Way Way Back is a film about teenage adolescence and bad parenting. I found it quite enjoyable, but somewhat less than scintillating. It struck me as one of those films that basically “did everything right,” but still fell a … Continue reading
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World War Z / The Heat / This is the End – A potpourri of summer brain rot
Over the Fourth of July holiday, my wife and I went to three “summer blockbuster” movies which seemed somewhat entertaining at the time, but which are now filling me with dread at the prospect of actually having to review them. … Continue reading
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Dirty Wars – without doubt, one of the most important films of the year
Dirty Wars is a remarkable documentary, made by a mainstream journalist (Jeremy Scahill) who is swimming against the overwhelming tide and actually doing his job: working to expose Americans to truths they should care about and should do something about. … Continue reading
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The Bling Ring – about as deep as Paris Hilton, but just as glitzy
My wife and I saw The Bling Ring in a double feature with Dirty Wars. It was a shocking experience, the two films defining absolute extremes of the current American experience, in almost every conceivable way. Actually, I highly recommend … Continue reading
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The Internship – the good, the bad, and the ugly
The Good: If you like Vince Vaughn’s shtick (I certainly do,) this movie has plenty of Vince Vaughn performing his schick. Is it good enough to warrant seeing this movie? I’m not sure. If you like Owen Wilson’s shtick, this movie … Continue reading
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Fill The Void (Lemale et ha’halal) – a nice, sweet little movie
I enjoyed this movie a lot more than I thought I would. It’s a sweet, low-key “love” story, with a style that reminds me a little of 90’s indie films. The main focus of the story is the relationship between … Continue reading
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