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Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
An engaging detective story. A little scripted, staged, and overdramatized at times, but still good. Nice effects, animation, silky dolly shots, lots of good B-roll, and a ready-made soundtrack polish things up quite nicely. It’s got all the qualities that make it trendy to like. The combination of mystery, intrigue,…
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Frozen (2013)
Excellent animation. In the details, you can see a lot of Pixar’s influence. Skin is imperfectly perfect, fingers are wonderfully three-dimensional, blocks of ice refract and reflect light perfectly. All of the ice effects were really great. The story’s pretty good, but a little too much singing and dancing for…
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Totally a Scorsese film. A flashback New York story about money, drugs, and loose women. Frequent narration to the viewer, lots of quick talking, and just the right amount of industry lingo to keep it authentic. The difference here is that this movie was an epic three hours long, and…
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Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
A deep, engaging, depressing character study. Easy to see why he and Leto are Oscars. Both completely devote themselves to their tragic roles. It’s no stretch for McConaughey to play a Texan, but the weight loss was astonishing. Leto’s good. Why does he do so little acting? Cleanly directed and…
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Captain Phillips (2013)
Cleanly directed and very suspenseful. It’s all more powerful knowing that it’s a true story. Hanks is good in a very real, very human role. He really shines in the film’s last few minutes. With a simmering ferocity in his eyes, Abdi is creepy and perfect. Photos of the real-life…
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Her (2013)
A engaging, haunting look at the future of socialization and romance, and a touching story about one man’s connection with technology. Is this what’s really going to happen? Jonze put this movie together beautifully. Some great shots, wonderful colors and architecture, a nice score, and carefully edited. I love Jonze’s…
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Air Speed (1999)
Awful in just about every respect. Cuthbert’s cute, but the best is yet to come.
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The Great Dictator (1940)
My immediate reaction to The Great Dictator was that it is horribly offensive to Jews. They were victimized and ultimately exterminated by the German regime in the 40’s, and here we have a popular actor making light of the whole situation in a comedy with off-the-cuff remarks about concentration camps…
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