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Review of The Confirmation (2016)

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

We're not in Nebraska anymore. We're really not anywhere in a story going nowhere fresh or relevant. But it's not a complete waste of time…

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Review of Zootopia (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 05 Mar 2016

It should serve as a terrific inspiration for little girls to dream big and aspire high…

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Review of The Witch (2016)

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

If you're looking for a movie that's better than hex, lay down with The Witch. It's guaranteed to bewitch, bother and bewilder…

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Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

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

Unless you have a solid feel for Hollywood history, the Coens are going to leave you completely in the dark…

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Review of The Finest Hours (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 30 Jan 2016

At sea it's pretty terrific. But on land, where too much of this seafaring folly transpires, it's dull as dirt…

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Review of The Lady in the Van (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 30 Jan 2016

Her Mary is disagreeable and a slave to dementia, but behind the cantankerousness Smith seldom fails to find a way to let you see inside a…

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Review of 45 Years (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 23 Jan 2016

A movie so quietly devastating you never see its knockout punch coming. And when it lands, it smacks you hard enough to draw tears…

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Review of Son of Saul (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 23 Jan 2016

It's not a bad film, in fact it's often very good, but it's also obsequious in the way Nemes allows technique to continually trump emotion…

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Review of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 16 Jan 2016

It wants to make heroes out of these men for their actions. But true heroism comes from within…

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Review of Mustang (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 16 Jan 2016

If it was Erguven's intent to anger as much as educate, she fully succeeds. Her film rips you to bits. But it also makes you laugh, as well as think…

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Review of Carol (1974)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 26 Dec 2015

Like an Edward Hopper painting sprung to life, its mood washes over you in an evocative mix of opulence and despair as it dizzyingly dances…

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Review of Carol (1970)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 26 Dec 2015

Like an Edward Hopper painting sprung to life, its mood washes over you in an evocative mix of opulence and despair as it dizzyingly dances…

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Review of Carol (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 26 Dec 2015

Like an Edward Hopper painting sprung to life, its mood washes over you in an evocative mix of opulence and despair as it dizzyingly dances…

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Review of The Big Short (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 26 Dec 2015

A bull market of clever, incisive filmmaking that makes it easy to understand a mind-bogglingly complex financial system and its potentially…

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Review of Carol (1990)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 26 Dec 2015

Like an Edward Hopper painting sprung to life, its mood washes over you in an evocative mix of opulence and despair as it dizzyingly dances…

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Review of The Hateful Eight (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 26 Dec 2015

Even at more than three hours, the story never feels labored. A lot of that is because Tarantino's dialogue is rapturous to the ear…

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Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 Dec 2015

A money grab in which wunderkind J.J…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 13 Dec 2015

It's all rendered competently, but far from rousingly…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 13 Dec 2015

It's all rendered competently, but far from rousingly…

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Review of In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 12 Dec 2015

If it's indeed true that this cannibal-laced tale of survival was the catalyst for Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick, you'd think you'd find…

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