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Broken City - Movie Review

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Broken City - Movie Review Planted smack-dab in the middle of the January dumping season - where cinematic stinkers are unleashed to dirty the elbows of Oscar hopefuls - Broken City is slotted exactly where it belongs. And this one’s certainly not vying for Oscar attention. So, ...

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The Last Stand - Movie Review

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The Last Stand - Movie Review Don’t call it a comeback.  He’s been here for years.  Yeah, I said it.  I couldn’t think of a better opener than quoting a little LL Cool J for you all.  And, listen, it’s deserved.  Arnold Schwarzenegger, last seen firing blanks in The Expendables 2, returns for another ...

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A Haunted House - Movie Review

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A Haunted House Having just finished racking the old brainpan while compiling an annual list of the worst films of 2012, it quickly became a personal mission to swear off procrastination this year and get an early start on 2013’s list. Fortunately, Marlon Wayans gets my new year’s ...

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Promised Land - Movie Review

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Promised Land - Movie Review In Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land, screenwriters Matt Damon and John Krasinski present a well-rounded, yet emotionally-charged argument that attempts to build a compelling film around the controversial process of natural gas extraction known as hydraulic ...

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Hitchcock - Movie Review

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Hitchcock poster What if someone good made a horror film? This is the question Hitchcock, directed by Sacha Gervasi, asks its audience. It is also the question the maestro himself poses to his wife and longtime business partner, Alma Reville, over many a cup of tea. Based on the ...

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Lincoln - Movie Review

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Lincoln - Movie Review With Lincoln, Steven Spielberg does a complete 180, calling upon a different set of filmmaking skills than he’s accustomed to using. In a triumphant return to form, the War Horse director moves away from his typical outpouring of visual imagery and tells his ...

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Chasing Mavericks - Movie Review

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Chasing Mvericks - Movie Review Short on inspiration but long on after-school-special blandness, Chasing Mavericks is the true story of surfing phenom Jay Moriarty (Jonny Weston), whose legacy still reverberates throughout the coastal California surfing community where he grew up ...

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Cloud Atlas - Movie Review

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Cloud Atlas - Movie Review The film adaptation of British author David Mitchell’s bestselling novel, Cloud Atlas, is what happens when two (or three or four) different styles collide.  The unevents of your standard Merchant Ivory production merges with the soulless visuals of Lucasfilm to ...

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Alex Cross - Movie Review

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Alex Cross - Movie Review Hollywood’s grand aspirations of mirroring the same success author James Patterson has realized with his Alex Cross series of novels takes another significant hit with the release of Alex Cross that stars Tyler Perry (yes, that Tyler Perry) in the role of the ...

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Tai Chi Zero - Movie Review

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Tai Chi Zero - Movie Review Writer/director Stephen Fung’s Tai Chi Zero, the first in a proposed trilogy of frenetic martial arts actioneers, is a glorious mess of styles with very little substance.  It’s marital arts gone gonzo.  Blasting across the screen with cartoon goofiness, Fung's trippy ...

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The Paperboy - Movie Review

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The Paperboy - Movie Review Filmmaker Lee Daniels follows his Oscar-winning drama Precious with The Paperboy, an equally uncompromising film that builds a steamy stinking world of Southern-fried atmosphere where sex, race, and deception hang as thick as the Spanish Moss in this south ...

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Taken 2 - Movie Review

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taken 2 - Movie Review Oy vey. Taken 2, or as I like to call it How ITaught My Daughter Grenade Location Skills, is nowhere near the substance of the original. This time, it's a laughable family affair. Bring the kids, daddy-o!  This sequel is a prime example of ...

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Movie Review

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower There’s a beautiful moment in The Perks of Being a Wallflower that not only defines Stephen Chbosky’s affecting coming-of-age-story, but also welcomes us in to his warm world where everyone is accepted despite any personal hang-ups, eccentricities, or social ...

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Trouble with the Curve - Movie Review

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Trouble With the Curve - Movie Review When is a movie about baseball not really a baseball movie?  When it has Trouble with the Curve.  Legendary entertainer and veteran of the silver screen Clint Eastwood returns to acting after his solid performance in Gran Torino from four years ...

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Resident Evil: Retribution - Movie Review

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Resident Evil: Retribution - Movie ReviewResident Evil: Retribution or as I like to call it Thank God for Black Leather Unitards and the Female Body Kicking Zombie Ass isn't a complete stinker.  It just isn't very good at playing nice with logic in its storytelling and, still operating as game levels for Alice to ...

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Arbitrage - Movie Review

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Arbitrage - Movie Review First time filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki capitalizes on both his knowledge of the inner-workings of the financial industry as well as our scarred recollections of the most recent financial meltdown to create a fascinating thriller that smolders with ...

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