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Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 19 Dec 2018

Jackson and Co…

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Review of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 19 Dec 2018

There's no reason not to try something new with the genre, but here the attempts to change the game wind up being more disgruntling than satisfying…

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Review of American Sniper (2014)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 19 Dec 2018

American Sniper holds up as a movie that has something to say about the military experience, and says it effectively…

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Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 19 Dec 2018

It primarily seems to exist to host its excellent action sequences. Mainly, it's what most of us would expect, for better and worse…

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Review of The Lazarus Effect (2015)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 19 Dec 2018

The Lazarus Effect has good scares and some genuinely intriguing notions…

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Review of Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 19 Dec 2018

Wyrmwood is a very satisfying zombie film. It's got plenty of action, plenty of splatter, a story and people who hold our attention…

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Review of Unbroken (2014)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 19 Dec 2018

The result is the telling of a good story, but not an illuminating one…

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Review of Alien Outpost (2014)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 19 Dec 2018

Even though the performances are sound and some of the metaphors hold, we're not engrossed enough by them to ignore the tangled story logic…

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Review of Focus (1994)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 19 Dec 2018

Focus is undeniably entertaining in most of its parts, but it's not as clever as it tries to be…

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Review of Seventh Son (2014)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 19 Dec 2018

This question of morality is a perfectly fine basis for a film, fantasy or otherwise, but Seventh Son doesn't know what to do with it…

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Review of White God (2014)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 18 Dec 2018

The climax is lovely, Psotta is a beautifully persuasive, serious young heroine and the dogs are magnificent…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 18 Dec 2018

The movie embodies what we want in a Marvel film - it's smart, cool, full of vivid stunts and effects with well-delineated characters played…

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Review of Unfriended (2014)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 18 Dec 2018

While it's hardly a nonstop bloodbath, there are jolts of gory violence that provide worthy horror punch, and the dialogue is naturalistic…

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Review of An Irish Exorcism (2013)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 18 Dec 2018

An Irish Exorcism is creepy and well-made, with a touch of exoticism as a bonus…

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Review of Let Us Prey (2014)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 18 Dec 2018

Let Us Prey is one of those idiosyncratic indie horror oddities…

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Review of Jurassic World (2015)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 18 Dec 2018

For those who see the glory in these dinos, they're worth putting up with a lot, including the rest of the movie that surrounds them…

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Review of Maggie (2015)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 18 Dec 2018

The film is precise, thoughtful, intelligent and heartfelt. In applying a new lens to a familiar genre, it feels bracingly different…

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Review of Home (2016)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 18 Dec 2018

Home is delightful…

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Review of The Harvest (2015)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 18 Dec 2018

The Harvest is more tense and disturbing than out and out scary, but it's done well enough for us to take it seriously and reflect on the fact…

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Review of The Harvest (2015)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 18 Dec 2018

The Harvest is more tense and disturbing than out and out scary, but it's done well enough for us to take it seriously and reflect on the fact…

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