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Last Flag Flying
Limelight
Lynden Barber
Linklater's visual sense has largely deserted him here... or maybe it's just the damp weather blanketing most scenes. But the lead performances are exemplary and the emotional landscape they traverse is far from grey.
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Sister
Limelight
Alice Tynan
The pair [Klein & Seydoux] artfully weaves the ties that bind, crafting something that is both fragile and tenuously hopeful.
4/5
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Military Wives
Limelight
Lynden Barber
Despite the formula guiding the narrative, it's hard not to divine a sense of duty to the real-life characters, which gives the women and their dilemmas a vivid presence on screen.
3.5/5
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Monsieur Lazhar
Limelight
Alice Tynan
Monsieur Lazhar is a film to cherish.
4/5
5
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Much Ado About Nothing
Limelight
Alice Tynan
Super-charged with giddy enthusiasm, Whedon's ensemble brings Shakespeare to life in a riot of boozy passion and slapstick giggles.
5/5
5
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Not Suitable for Children
Limelight
Alice Tynan
A heartily welcome sex comedy with a few sneaky surprises.
4/5
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Nowhere Boy
Limelight
Lynden Barber
UK video artist turned filmmaker Sam Taylor Wood and Control screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh have delivered a vividly entertaining film.
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Ophelia
Limelight
Lynden Barber
Many Hamlet-lovers will scoff, while for those unfamiliar with the tale, it will make little sense.
3/5
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)
Limelight
Lynden Barber
It's a quiet, meditative film that is indeed beautiful to, yes, gaze upon while you ponder its subtle yet powerful accumulation of thoughts and questions.
4.5/5
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Sorry to Bother You
Limelight
Lynden Barber
It's not an easy watch, but it is memorable and compelling -- the rare film that comments on the peculiar details of a historical moment while we are still going through it and makes all too clear sense of it.
4.5/5
5
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Thanks For Sharing
Limelight
Alice Tynan
Blumberg and his cast lift the slogan-heavy vocabulary of group therapy above stultifying clich, and instead craft an engaging portrait of support and companionship.
3.5/5
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The Death of Stalin
Limelight
Lynden Barber
The film manages to be both scabrously funny and bone chilling as it nails Stalinism's absurdity and inhumanity.
5/5
5
5
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The Old Man & the Gun
Limelight
Lynden Barber
Matching Redford for charm is Sissy Spacek as his love interest, the horse ranch-owning widow he 'helps' by the side of the road while trying to elude the cops on his tail.
3/5
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The Party
Limelight
Lynden Barber
Potter handles the competing sub-plots like an experienced emergency surgeon in a disaster zone, exploring themes including rationality versus irrationality and the sickness lurking within apparently healthy relationships.
4.5/5
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The Sessions
Limelight
Alice Tynan
An extraordinary account of sexual exploration and intimacy against the odds, The Sessions is a powerful achievement.
4/5
5
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The Square
Limelight
Lynden Barber
The Square is littered with dramatic confrontations and struggles that make it engaging and accessible to a wider audience without undermining its thoughtfulness or ability to take outlandish risks and pull them off.
4.5/5
5
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The Trip to Spain
Limelight
Lynden Barber
I've no idea how the real Bryden and Coogan measure up against their fictional personae, but they paint a convincing picture of the former's happily married underdog vs Coogan's more egotistical, cynical playboy.
5/5
5
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Limelight
Lynden Barber
While the film certainly has its fair spray of black comedy, not all of it that amusing, it turns out, to its benefit, to be far more morally layered, unpredictable and thoughtful than its marketing campaign suggests.
3.5/5
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Una
Limelight
Lynden Barber
[Rooney] Mara, always a very contained actor, emphasises the edgily unpredictable in Una.
5/5
5
5
5
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Upstream Color
Limelight
Alice Tynan
A visceral, mind-bending curio...a film that leeches into
 you like watercolour on canvas; the less you know about the 
story going in, the better.
4.5/5
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5
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Vita & Virginia
Limelight
Lynden Barber
For many the film will ultimately succeed or fall on Elizabeth Debicki's depiction of Woolf as a wanly frail creature, forever on the verge of falling apart.
3.5/5
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What Maisie Knew
Limelight
Alice Tynan
Seen through the eyes of a six-year-old, this film about the spectre of divorce makes for haunting viewing indeed.
4/5
5
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Whitney
Limelight
Lynden Barber
Fascinating, well-made and moving - albeit not as unique and necessary as it probably wants us to find it.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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Wuthering Heights
Limelight
Alice Tynan
Through Arnold's eyes the story feels immediate and visceral.
4/5
5
4
5
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Endless Love
Linoleum Knife
Alonso Duralde
This movie has no idea how letters of acceptance work, how airports work, how relationships work.
2/10
10
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About Last Night
Linoleum Knife
Alonso Duralde
Comes to life whenever Hart and Hall return to scream at each other or to have passionate sex while wearing livestock masks.
3/5
5
3
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Boyhood
Linoleum Knife
Dave White
Full of empathy and fully realized detail, its specificity transforming into universality, an achievement of time and love that's already among the best films about childhood (and parenthood) you'll ever have the pleasure to watch.
5/5
5
5
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Fed Up
Linoleum Knife
Dave White
Fed Up is on to a very important truth: we're all going to die of sugar if we don't start talking about it like the delicious cigarette it is.
3/5
5
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Inside Out
Linoleum Knife
Dave White
I believe that its most significant contribution to pop culture will be as a lasting statement of opposition to facile, idiotic "feelings" as they're currently sold by movie studios, a chance for a moment of truth about loss, and grief, and even numbness.
4.5/5
5
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Stray Dogs
Linoleum Knife
Dave White
Tsai has created one of his greatest films, full of the fragility, daily humiliation and fear that engulfs the lives of the poor, one that points to the moral requirements of active compassion. It's a masterpiece of the deepest sadness.
5/5
5
5
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Jurassic World
Linoleum Knife
Dave White
This franchise is, itself, very much like the dangerous dinosaur park depicted. It has investors who need to see a good return. It has to sell, and sell well, globally. Nothing can be left to chance. Therefore, nothing is.
2/5
5
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Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
Linoleum Knife
Dave White
Hot cocoa is referenced no fewer than nine times. Cameron talks about the drink as though it were the trump card of his entire argument, as though dropping a microphone. "And COCOA!"
0/5
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Love Is Strange
Linoleum Knife
Dave White
Nothing showy or fussy from director Ira Sachs and cinematographer Christos Voudouris, the camera lingers on human details, the goodness and tenderness between these men, with a lot to say about the level of scrutiny gay lives are subjected to routinely.
4/5
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Magic Mike XXL
Linoleum Knife
Dave White
These men have unrealized yearnings - for art, for singing careers, for "glass slipper" marriage, for frozen yogurt - and they're going to make it rain by acting out those fantasies, man-twerking with all the "realness" they can muster.
2.5/5
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Manakamana
Linoleum Knife
Dave White
The beauty and rhythms of the fixed camera's highly specific focus builds a hypnotic group narrative of religion's possibility, the ways in which it can bring joy and peace.
5/5
5
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The Identical
Linoleum Knife
Dave White
It's a mysterious, hilarious mess, a confusional cry for directions in a Triple Elvis Universe. Buy your ticket now, before it magically disappears from theaters, and feel the brain-breaking power of song.
0/5
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Remember Me
Little White Lies
Tom Seymour
Put it this way, Coulter, there are over 3000 true stories you could have told, and this film may insult every single one.
1/4
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The Blind Side
Little White Lies
Adam Woodward
A few momentary hiccups aside, the film plays out in sickly-sweet fashion, relentlessly shoving the Touhy's self-righteous values down the audiences' throat and never bothering to consider the wider social ramifications...
1/4
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Beeswax
Little White Lies
Henry Barnes
A step forward, but a sluggish one.
2/4
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Clash of the Titans
Little White Lies
Tom Seymour
Thank the Gods Gemma Arterton is very, very good looking.
1/4
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How to Train Your Dragon
Little White Lies
Limara Salt
A sweet David vs Goliath tale that has the heart that most animated films don't bother to attempt to find.
3/4
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Nanny McPhee Returns
Little White Lies
Simon Jablonski
With acrobatic pigs, homespun wisdom and cross-generation humour, Nanny McPhee is a hugely entertaining family film to melt the stoniest of hearts and tickle the most callous toes.
3/4
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
Little White Lies
Jonathan Williams
Freddy Kruger deserves better and so do we.
1/4
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No One Knows About Persian Cats (Les Chats Persans)
Little White Lies
Alex Ritman
Bahman Ghobadi's fifth full-length feature unveils Tehran's underground music scene, revealing a pulsating world of rappers, indie kids and thrash metallers forced to practice in dinghy basements and hide their NMEs from the law.
3/4
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Shank
Little White Lies
Dan Stewart
With its jarring slang, reckless narrative and offbeat imagery, it's as close to being A Clockwork Orange for the Broken Britain generation as we have. It's up to you to decide whether that's a good thing or not.
2/4
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Storm (Sturm)
Little White Lies
Adrian Sandiford
Saved by the talent on display both in front of and behind the camera, Storm just about retains its title as an intense political thriller.
3/4
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The Rocker
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Tuneless execution, with flat writing and inharmonious direction as noticeable as Motley Crue's eyeliner. Or Whitesnake's snakeskin pants.
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Body of Lies
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Crowe's a delight as a crafty Deputy Dawg from Arkansas; Mark Strong's Hani has an IQ to match his GQ. Surprisingly, the only undernourished part belongs to DiCaprio.
5.5/10
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The Women
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Reinterpreting a 1939 film through a modern day lens -- how's the fit? Like a size ten foot squeezing into a size 4 Manolo slingback, it limps. Painfully.
2/10
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Wanted
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
It could have been worse--in the original graphic novel, the authors created a villain fashioned solely out of fecal products. Even sans Mr. Stool Head, this project stinks to high heaven.
3/10
10
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Porn and true love go 'hand-in-gland' in this latest, arguably best outing by auteur Kevin Smith--making for one DD-cupped hooter of a comedy.
8/10
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Ghost Town
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
With three strong leads finding depth underneath their respective comedic masks, this isn't your usual 'spirited' rom-com. Like the dentist himself, it stands alone.
8/10
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Changeling
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Crooked cops cripple the City of Angels in an impeccably-fashioned 1920s--if only the script had been given the same rigorous treatment as the production design.
6/10
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Step Brothers
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Some are touting this as the grown-up version of Superbad. Wrong. That earlier film was excellent. "Super bad," as applied to Step Brothers, is a super understatement.
0.5/10
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Lakeview Terrace
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Under the microscope of this movie, it takes only the smallest spark of ill will to inflame whatever lies directly below the skin--whatever color that skin happens to be.
6/10
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Bolt
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
A welcome departure from the deluge of films wherein the characters mirror the facial characteristics of the actors voicing them. Travolta's no more a dog than a '60s housefrau. Wait. Scratch that.
8.25/10
10
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Brideshead Revisited
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Whishaw's Sebastian is a creature not completely of this earth. Watching the matriarchal and religious pressures weigh on his thin shoulders is almost too much to bear.
7.5/10
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Burn After Reading
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
What's worse? Victimization by Washington's intel? Or victimization by a total lack of one's own? This is some clever comedy, where casual murder and serial dating go, um, hand-in-gland.
8.5/10
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Choke
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Seduction, abduction and obstruction make for one hell of a slightly inedible, incredible Oedipal romp through the beastly world of novelist Chuck Palahniuk.
8.5/10
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Ben Barnes looks lost, with a thick Mediterranean accent reminiscent of Mandy Patinkin's avenging Spaniard from The Princess Bride: 'My name is Inigo Montoya--you killed my father--prepare to die!'
5/10
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Get Smart
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Per the latest intelligence report: For a grown-up summer comedy, Get Smart gets merely a passing grade.
5.5/10
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Hamlet 2
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Coogan creates a protagonist who's as much a hack as he is an inspiration, an idiot who you root for in the film, but you'd rather not have as a personal friend.
7.5/10
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Hancock
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Hancock is an irreverent hero for our times--perhaps reflecting our own national zeitgeist, with America's previously untainted superpower image suddenly a matter of debate rather than fact.
7.5/10
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2)
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
On this latest Boy Meets Ghoul: Hellboy II's look is red hot. But it lingers too long on the fire, its promising sizzle ultimately losing flavor.
6/10
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
The jerky hero suddenly changes into a cool, well-dressed guy. Then poof! he's an idiot. Then back to cool. Presenting the Peek-a-Boo School of Writing and Character Development.
2.5/10
10
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
The 'fedora-ble' Indy is back. Sort of. With his wry half-smile, still performing many of his own stunts, it's nice to see an old friend doing so well. But the thrill is gone.
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Iron Man
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Latest Theory of Flight: This film is politically smart, action-packed, sexy and fun. High-flying suit notwithstanding, this newest entry in the superhero arena has just raised the bar.
8.5/10
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Kung Fu Panda
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
From a studio that's decimated iconic fairy tale characters with its poison pop-culture pen, i.e., Shrek, comes an age-old fable, poetic, pop-free and timeless...yet still an utter hoot.
8/10
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Mamma Mia!
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Sophie invites the three beaus to her wedding, hoping she'll be able to pick her father out of the group. Such a shame that Sophie hasn't heard about DNA testing.
3.5/10
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Miracle at St. Anna
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
This is like the 'Where's Waldo' of war films: Find the story, locate the characters. You have three hours. Good luck to you.
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
A solitary highlight--when Emperor and Witch call their dead armies to life, his clay soldiers vs her skeleton troops. It's "The Kilning Fields" taking on a Skeleton Crew.
2.5/10
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Pineapple Express
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
As for Gary Cole's menacing bossman, he's a hemp-ty suit, a walking life lesson that, um, 'People who live in grass houses should not throw stoners.'
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Pride and Glory
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Just as the title itself doesn't give us enough, Pride and Glory needed to plumb deeper in order to rise above the business-as-usual cop family drama.
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Quantum of Solace
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
They certainly know how to do 'Solace.' But we're talking about Bond. The-once urbane testosterone magnet for hot chicks, iced alcohol and oddly-amusing villains has just been replaced by Mr. Mopes.
6/10
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Righteous Kill
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Why take on new characters when instead, they can play cops? How cutting edge. With a plastic butter knife.
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RocknRolla
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
It seems that 'two smoking barrels' was more than enough. Three is pushing it. Or, as the newly-separated spouse Madonna may have said, 'Enough already.'
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Role Models
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Neither fish nor fowl, in its attempt to appeal to audiences both over and under 21, Role Models finds itself betwixt and be-tween-er.
6/10
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Sex and the City
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Writer/director Michael Patrick King's first attempt to slip into full-length features from television wears heavily, resulting in as poor a fit as Carrie sporting coveralls and clogs.
4/10
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Speed Racer
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Belying its own title, it's a mind-boggling bog of slow-witted repetition. After 5 minutes of zippy eye candy, what'll we do for the next 2 hours? You might want to bring along something to read.
4/10
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Synecdoche, New York
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Though the theme isn't new (Pirandello, Fellini), the fact that Kaufman forgot to give the protagonist any spark of personality whatsoever is rather cutting-edge. Yet exceedingly dull. How ironic.
4/10
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The Dark Knight
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
The Joker should be charged with the film's biggest crime: stealing the show.
8/10
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The Incredible Hulk
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Comic book performances trample Norton's attempt at 3D, e.g., Tim Blake Nelson's over-the-top scientist, acting as if he's performing children's theater to a packed matinee of pre-schoolers.
5.5/10
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Then She Found Me
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Looking an anorexic 15 years older than her character, she grabs onto her role with a grim, two-fisted attack. While the supporting cast in this dramedy swims toward comedy, Hunt drowns in tragedy.
3.5/10
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Towelhead
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
It turns out that 'Towelhead' is not a slur, it's a directive. Putting towels over our heads, large enough to cover our faces, may be the preferred mode in which to view this film.
2/10
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Traitor
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Nachmanoff's 'travelogue' consists of a plot that doesn't twist--heck, it doesn't even kink. Let's call it a mild fold and leave it at that.
3/10
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Tropic Thunder
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Tearing through this wild rumble in the jungle are so many wacky performances, it's challenging to keep them all straight. Even harder--trying to control the laughter so you don't miss the next line.
8/10
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WALL-E
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
A spectacular testament to the life force that beats within us all, WALL - E puts the "extra" back in terrestrial.
9/10
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What Just Happened?
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Like a waning starlet fresh from her latest Botox treatment, Hollywood continues to gaze at itself in the mirror. Yet De Niro's producer adds a rare decency, keeping this film from being one more industry rout.
7.5/10
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe (The X Files 2)
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
There's a terrible crime going on against Mulder/Scully. They're being forced to talk to death, beaten about the bush, blued in the face. Crimes like this can break your heart.
5.5/10
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You Don't Mess With the Zohan
LivePDX
Kimberly Gadette
Cutting to celeb cameos as often as locks of hair fall to the floor of a Supercuts doesn't create comedy -- no more than sticking a person's head in a salon sink means it can wash/cut/style itself.el=1010828&title=Screen Savor Movie Review%3A You Don%27t
2.5/10
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A Walk In The Woods
Liverpool Echo
Georgia Morgan
The premise of bickering old friends forced together while out of their comfort zones has been done before and far better (Whitnail and I, City Slickers), but the two leads' star power and easy charm makes this an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours.
6/10
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Bill
Liverpool Echo
Georgia Morgan
The cast's energy is infectious and they frequently seem to be one smirk or snigger shy of corpsing en masse and ruining the take.
7/10
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Brooklyn
Liverpool Echo
Georgia Morgan
Definitely one to watch if you like raw emotion and romance.
9/10
10
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
Liverpool Echo
Catherine Jones
Love, loss, courage, hope and humour -- Deathly Hallows offers them all in what proves a worthy finale to the Potter saga.
8/10
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Hitman: Agent 47
Liverpool Echo
Georgia Morgan
Unfortunately, while Hitman: Agent 47 may offer a passable diversion for the action fans among us, for everyone else it's best avoided.
4/10
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Hotel Transylvania 2
Liverpool Echo
Georgia Morgan
If you liked the first Hotel Transylvania you'll like the second, but while the special 3D effects look great, the storyline can lack depth at times.
6/10
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Macbeth
Liverpool Echo
Georgia Morgan
Fassbender and Cotillard deliver mesmerising lead performances which are both compelling and realistic.
8/10
10
8
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Miss You Already
Liverpool Echo
Georgia Morgan
Screenwriter Banks redeems herself with a well-judged final act that tugs our heartstrings without feeling like we're being shamelessly manipulated into reaching for another tissue.
7/10
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No Escape
Liverpool Echo
Georgia Morgan
Clumsy filmmaking in No Escape means the viewers never actually find out where the uprising is and director John Erick Dowdle and his younger brother Drew, who co-wrote the script, remain vague about the geography of this violent, protracted chase.
3/10
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Pan
Liverpool Echo
Georgia Morgan
The fantasy adventure invites our senses on an awfully big adventure, but lands with a dull thud where it matters most: our hearts.
4/10
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