Reviews

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[Review] Animal Kingdom

Established by the British as a criminal dumping ground, Australia has defined itself through its underworld history of gang wars. The infamous bushranger t...
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[Review] Ondine

There is an odd charm to Neil Jordan's romantic fantasy 'Ondine' that makes it watchable for about half of its running time....
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[Blu-Review] Green Zone

Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon have certainly proven themselves as a bonafide director/actor team in Hollywood. Responsible for some of the best action fil...
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[Blu-Review] The Book of Eli

The Book of Eli has arrived on Blu-ray and it’s ready to deliver us. It got mediocre reviews when it was in theaters as the film was criticized for its preachy nature, uneven plot twist and lack of action. Now that the film is on Blu-ray we get to take another look at it....
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[Blu-Review] Unthinkable

Unthinkable is the new straight-to-DVD release from director Gregor Jordan. Unthinkable or what could easily be mistaken as 24: The Movie, tells the story of Steven Younger (Michael Sheen) a terrorist who claims to have planted three bombs across the USA....
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[Review] Winter’s Bone

Summer is upon us. With the blistering heat, long days and big budget blockbusters filling the screen each weekend, one may wonder why Roadside Attractions de...
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[Review] Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

Picking up where Anne Fontaine’s Coco Before Chanel left off, Jan Kounen’s Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky provides a dual portrait of two icons of the 1920s, who had a brief, passionate romance that coincided with highpoints of their respective careers....
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[Review] Please Give

Nicole Holofcener, it turns out, makes better Woody Allen movies than Woody Allen. Over the last decade, Holofcener has established herself as a force in in...
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[Review] Solitary Man

The past few months have oddly been filled with mid-life crisis films. At the center of them are narcissistic, yet somewhat likeable, leads. Both the fantasti...
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[Review] The A-Team

"They specialize in the ridiculousness" is a line Jessica Biel spouts early on in The A-Team and that line in itself represents the film as a whole. It's nothing but ridiculous. This is the exact idea everyone has for a summer blockbuster: non-stop action, one-liners, not too grounded in reality, and is just flat-out absurd. ...