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The Campaign (2012)

Reviewed on Jun 28, 2013

Silliness, but there are a few good lines. With speech and mannerisms from Bush, Ferrell gets some easy laughs. Galifianakis is good, too.

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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)

Reviewed on Jun 26, 2013

A pleasant but remarkably undramatic end-of-the-world tale. Carell does his best to flex his dramatic chops.

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For a no-name director and no-name actors, surprisingly good suspense and performances. Good characters and good character-building. Having people we care about makes things more scary. CHeesy ending. Some sort of explanation would have been nice.end was cheesy. An explanation would have been nice.

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This Means War (2012)

Reviewed on Jun 22, 2013

Light and fun. Pine and Hardy play well off each other, and Witherspoon keeps up. Awkward ending. Didn’t need that last scene.

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Cloud Atlas (2012)

Reviewed on Jun 15, 2013

What the fuck. Actors playing different characters in different stories in different times. It’s all a bit too much for me. Some of the characters and stories are interesting, but I couldn’t piece it all together. If you need to have read the book or a cheat sheet to make…

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Man of Steel (2013)

Reviewed on Jun 15, 2013

It’s a Zack Snyder movie. Wonderfully visual and violent, with lots of perfectly shot battles and explosions and destruction. Creative lighting, carefully timed slo-mo, and close-ups of Superman gritting his teeth enhance the action further. People like this kind of stuff, and Snyder’s got it down. But every confrontation is…

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The Hangover Part III (2013)

Reviewed on May 28, 2013

The worst of the bunch. There’s no raucous celebration, no hangover, no mystery, and not much comedy. Too much Chow. He’s irreverent but unfunny. When the sequence during the end credits is MUCH funnier than anything in the movie, it says something about the movie.

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The Great Gatsby (2013)

Reviewed on May 28, 2013

Wonderful period acting and dialogue and costumes, along with bold, wide effects that showcase 1920’s New York, provide rich fabric for the story. Unfortunately, every few minutes, Luhrmann’s anachronistic dance-beat musical choices take me out of the moment. It’s fun to watch, but things move slowly and the story never…

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Knuckleball! (2012)

Reviewed on May 22, 2013

An honorable attempt to honor the knuckleball, but it’s a bit sloppy. We start with Wakefield and then we go to Dickey and then the older guys and then back to Wakefield and Dicky? Bouncing around doesn’t add anything, it just makes us wonder why we’re bouncing around. Might have…

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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

Reviewed on May 17, 2013

More of the same. Good action, amazing effects. The planetary effects are especially good, even during the closing credits. Again, Abrams overdoes it with the lens flare. Strange story arc. There’s no consistent enemy, so the story doesn’t build to a dramatic climax. Instead, we ride a dramatic plateau for…

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