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Review of Deadpool 2 (2018)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 23 Aug 2018

no grand satire here, just self-awareness - and enough surprises, solid jokes and well-crafted action sequences to be entertaining…

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Review of Tully (2018)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 23 Aug 2018

Playing opposite ends of a spectrum -- one despairing and worn down, one so hopeful and youthful -- [Davis and Theron] could both have become…

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Review of Incredibles 2 (2018)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 23 Aug 2018

What thrilled me the most…

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Review of The Invasion (2007)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 27 Feb 2008

Contains writing so bad, Jeremy Northam comes off more charismatic as a pod person than a normal person…

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Review of In Bruges (2008)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 27 Feb 2008

A dark but fun movie about two characters in need of redemption, with the medieval title city as a perfect stand-in for purgatory…

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Review of Juno (2007)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 27 Feb 2008

Screenwriter Diablo Cody takes teen comedy cliches and turns them on their heads ... Made me laugh more than any film this year…

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Review of We Own the Night (2007)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 27 Feb 2008

Much of what is good about We Own The Night is undercut by an average performance from Wahlberg and a downright annoying performance from Phoenix,…

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Review of The Savages (2007)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 27 Feb 2008

I wanted to do what patriarch Philip Bosco did -- pull the hood of my jacket up to drown out Hoffman and Linney's tedious bickering…

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Review of Persepolis (2007)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 27 Feb 2008

A coming-of-age tale that exquisitely captures the fickle nature of youth…

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Review of Cloverfield (2008)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 27 Feb 2008

Ultimately asks us to invest in whether a monster is going to stop a dude from saying he's sorry to the girl he loves…

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Review of There Will Be Blood (2007)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 27 Feb 2008

Stylistically familiar and yet unique ... This is Paul Thomas Anderson's Kind of Blue…

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Review of Cassandra's Dream (2007)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 27 Feb 2008

Interesting to see Allen's continued fascination with class since coming to London, but his writing and directing here lack the punch of 2005's…

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Review of In the Valley of Elah (2007)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 27 Feb 2008

Elah is, for the most part, exactly what Crash wasn't -- understated…

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Review of Margot at the Wedding (2007)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 27 Feb 2008

There has to be a way to weave your personal issues and memories together into a story that transcends just presenting a bunch of ugliness…

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Review of No Country for Old Men (2007)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 27 Feb 2008

Javier Bardem's Chigurh is the embodiment of Sheriff Bell's exasperation -- a mythological, Grim Reaper-like figure whose existence makes order…

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Review of Savages (2006)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 27 Feb 2008

I wanted to do what patriarch Philip Bosco did -- pull the hood of my jacket up to drown out Hoffman and Linney's tedious bickering…

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Review of Across the Universe (2007)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 27 Feb 2008

Could have been brilliant or an absolute train wreck. Instead it's something worse -- dull…

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Review of The Bucket List (2007)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 27 Feb 2008

How do you have a film called The Bucket List without bothering to actually share the formation of the list with the audience, item by item,…

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Review of Definitely, Maybe (2008)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 25 Feb 2008

Despite a last act cop-out and its cutesy, unsatisfying narrative gimmick, writer/director Adam Brooks offers a surprisingly unsentimental…

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Review of Be Kind Rewind (2008)

By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 25 Feb 2008

Kind of a mess, but one that gets by thanks to the shoot-it-yourself exuberance of Gondry and his cinephile heroes…

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