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Review of MegaForce (1982)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 23 Sep 2011

One can only speculate where the money went (up their nose…

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Review of F for Fake (1973)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 19 Aug 2011

Welles' assurance that you will be enthralled by his every word and oversized gesture is so arrogant, so refreshingly contemptuous, that you'd…

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Review of The Circus (1928)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 16 Aug 2011

It is the political subtext and discussion of capitalism vs…

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Review of The Big Fix (1978)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 29 Jun 2011

The wonderful irony is that Dreyfuss is able to blackmail all his former revolutionary friends by threatening to tell everyone all the good…

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Review of Submarine (2011)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 15 Jun 2011

Refreshingly, it appears that Oliver and Jordana are one of the few couples in a high school movie who have sex too soon in their relationship,…

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Review of Super 8 (2011)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 09 Jun 2011

The kids have no effect on the story, not the military's interference in the accident clean up, not the finale, etc…

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Review of Super 8 (1988)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 09 Jun 2011

The kids have no effect on the story, not the military's interference in the accident clean up, not the finale, etc…

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Review of Lisztomania (1975)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 03 Jun 2011

There's no reason to suggest that Russell was just earning a paycheck on Lisztomania; clearly his full attention was on the giant penis, or…

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Review of X-Men: First Class (2011)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 02 Jun 2011

The last 1/2 hour of First Class, after 100 minutes of hyperventilating cross-cutting and meanwhile back at... scenes, is where the film excels…

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Review of The Tree of Life (2011)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 02 Jun 2011

Scenes build up seemingly without meaning, until it becomes clear who Jack's father has become, and you find yourself sympathizing with both…

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Review of Barbarosa (1982)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 27 May 2011

Schepisi doesn't have time to show off; Despite the opportunity for some beautiful widescreen vistas, he doesn't use them as a crutch or a…

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Review of I Come with the Rain (2009)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 27 May 2011

It's certainly odd to suddenly be distracted first by what looks like one character's glass eye, and then notice the waterfall behind him,…

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Review of The Challenge (1982)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 17 May 2011

The knowing feel of the photography is best expressed in an early chase scene where Frankenheimer repeatedly flash cuts to fish heads as Glenn…

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Review of I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 01 May 2011

Park's casting of Korean pop star Rain is as subversive as if he had cast a Beatles-era Paul McCartney as a serial killer in a slasher movie,…

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Review of Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 30 Apr 2011

Director John Huston is very careful not to share any beauty with us, there's one stunning shot of swirling dust, accentuated by the golden…

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Review of Limitless (2011)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 16 Mar 2011

Is the fact that Cooper becomes a high-yield stock broker who likes to sleep with models supposed to mean that he's misusing his powers, or…

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Review of Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 09 Mar 2011

Battle: Los Angeles ends up being ugly, bereft of creative kills, not scary, not entertaining, not thrilling, not bad enough to be funny, and…

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Review of Skyline (2010)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 09 Mar 2011

Skyline has lots of TV actors going through the motions (Faison, Balfour, Brittany Daniel) and one TV actor (Dexter's David Zayas) giving a…

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Review of Take Me Home Tonight (2011)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 04 Mar 2011

If there's anything funnier than dorky white guys singing along to gangsta rap, I don't know what it is…

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Review of The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 02 Mar 2011

Unlike, Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, and other Dick adaptation heroes, Damon has the physique of an everyman; when he runs, and…

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