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Django Unchained (2012)
A brutal retribution story with intensely dramatic scenes strung together at just the right pace. Typical of his style, Tarantino whimsically transitions between comedy and tension and brutality. In any given scene, you never know what you’re going to get. The only thing you know for sure is that things…
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This Is 40 (2012)
A weird mix of drama and comedy. One minute, we share emotional and insightful moments with the characters, the next minute they are clowns, going above and beyond the story for some laughs. This bouncing back and forth between subjective sympathy and objective comedy is a little awkward. Mann delivers…
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The Love We Make (2011)
An interesting slice of a celebrity’s life. Lots of nice cameos. Just wish they had found a way to craft a bit more of a story to it. As a photographer, I know why they did the whole thing in black and white.
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
With offbeat humor, campy cinematic techniques, and ludicrous photographic symmetry, Anderson’s turns life into a satirical stage play. Raw, matter-of-fact emotion provides a lot of the comedy, and dysfunctional parents are once again a prominent theme. Anderson’s scenes and charaters are deconstructed and carefully reconstructed. All dialogue is spoken very…
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Alien³ (1992)
Nice continuation of story, and lots of character development. Weaver’s a good anchor, and all the Aussie roughnecks gives the movie a Mad Max feel. Fincher’s very good at building suspense, but the alien effects are suspect. I was even more let down by the fact that there was only…
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
Undoubtedly painful for anyone who lived through this. Beautifully shot, wonderfully paced. Daldry is quite a talent. Horn is extremely engaging and incredibly believable. But one beef with casting him in the role is that he doesn’t look like he’d be the son of Hanks and Bullock. He has an…
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Larry Crowne (2011)
A polished, star-studded, feel-good movie about nothing. Roberts has still got it.
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Lincoln (2012)
A noble movie about a noble man by a noble director. It’s the kind of movie we’re all supposed to like. And the audience showed their appreciation with a smattering of applause as the credits rolled. But I found it all incredibly boring. What we have is a seemingly accurate…
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K-9 (1989)
Animal humor isn’t enough to carry a movie. After the dog, we’re left with a thin story and weak actors. Belushi isn’t exceptionally funny or cool or tough, but I’m not sure if that’s his fault or the writing.
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