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Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 17 Jun 2016

For a fish story, Finding Dory is pretty small scale. Or at least it seems when tossed into the sea with a whopper like Finding Nemo…

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Review of Dheepan (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 09 Jun 2016

Audiard vividly captures the horrors of not just war, but it's even more destructive aftermath. It will leave you positively shell-shocked…

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Review of Me Before You (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 03 Jun 2016

Me Before You is a feast for the eyes, whether our doomed lovers are vacationing in Mauritius or trading banalities in Will's castle quarters…

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Review of Tale of Tales (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 03 Jun 2016

Before falling apart in its final reel, Matteo Garrone's imaginative Tale of Tales proves a visually arresting, narratively captivating rendering…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 27 May 2016

A headache inducing ménage of Lewis Carroll's beloved characters tossed into a cacophonous tempest of family squabbles and lessons learned…

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Review of The Lobster (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 May 2016

It's a murky soup of commentary and ideas about modern love and loneliness presented in the most unsettling and imaginative way…

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Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 May 2016

Its multitude of pleasures rest in dialogue rich in wit and mellifluous in structure…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 May 2016

Black strips the Lethal Weapon formula down to its undies and redresses it with moxie and snark…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 06 May 2016

Cap has not just saved the world, he's saved a comic book universe from complacency by boldly raising the ante on all who dare follow this…

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Review of Keanu (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 29 Apr 2016

There's a lot of busyness and action, but what we really crave is a little more time for paws…

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Review of Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 29 Apr 2016

It turns one of America's larger-than-life icons into a sniveling, paranoid old man, who -- in Sparks' incapable hands -- lacks an ounce of gravitas…

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Review of Older Than Ireland (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 22 Apr 2016

The tears -- yours, not theirs -- come in the final moments when talk turns to the deaths of their spouses, close friends and some of their children…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 22 Apr 2016

Welcome to the spooky, ultra-violent world of writer-director Jeremy Saulnier, as he gets his John Carpenter on by sending his plucky group…

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Review of The Jungle Book (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 15 Apr 2016

Jon Iron Man Favreau proves emphatically there's no bungle in his Jungle -- just laughs, tears and overwhelming warmth for the talkative critters…

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Review of We the People: The Market Basket Effect (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 13 Apr 2016

We the People pounds you into submission with its inarticulate observations contributed by a succession of talking heads, most of whom had…

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Review of Born to Be Blue (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 08 Apr 2016

Hawke plays Baker the way Baker played the trumpet, always open to interpretation and unafraid to color outside the lines…

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Review of Take Me to the River (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 31 Mar 2016

You admire Sobel's tenacity, even if his reach exceeds his grasp…

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Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 26 Mar 2016

Watching Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, one thing is clear: Director Zack Snyder loves sparks…

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Review of Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 19 Mar 2016

It's probably too early to talk Oscar nominations, but when you're as good as Sally Field is in Hello, My Name Is Doris, it doesn't seem premature…

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Review of Cabin Fever (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 19 Mar 2016

The symptoms are familiar: Nausea, fatigue and impatience accompanied by excessive eye roll and exasperation. Yup…

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