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Review of Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 26 Sep 2014

Ridley confines his subject to small nightclubs and even smaller apartments, where we hear little music and a lot of talk…

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Review of The Skeleton Twins (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 19 Sep 2014

If you've seen 'You Can Count on Me' you have a pretty good idea where 'The Skeleton Twins' is headed in its somewhat didactic approach to…

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Review of Last Days in Vietnam (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 18 Sep 2014

It's a work that informs, inspires and angers, as it recounts the final hours of a war that Kennedy's uncle John began with the best of intentions,…

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Review of The Last of Robin Hood (2013)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 07 Sep 2014

As art, it's considerably shallow, weighted down by thin writing and wan direction…

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Review of The Trip to Italy (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 28 Aug 2014

Director Michael Winterbottom may entice us with five-course gourmet meals and historic hotel rooms formerly inhabited by Bogie and Garbo,…

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Review of The November Man (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 28 Aug 2014

The scenario that writers Michael Finch and Karl Gajdusek create for Brosnan is so convoluted Stephen Hawking would struggle to follow along…

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Review of Frank (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 21 Aug 2014

One gets a big head watching Frank. Not to mention a swollen heart. But does size really matter…

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Review of The Giver (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 15 Aug 2014

There's nothing here you haven't seen before, or themes that have not been better explored. But that's just the cusp of its unrelenting dullness…

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Review of Land Ho! (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 15 Aug 2014

A middling, mildly funny slice of senior-citizen life that thrives on its stars, and lags on its accoutrements…

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Review of Mood Indigo (2013)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 09 Aug 2014

It's such a visual stunner you might well forget how humdrum a story it encompasses…

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Review of Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 31 Jul 2014

DP Darius Khondji brings out the fire in Stone's luxurious red hair so luminously it almost becomes a star of its own…

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Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 Jul 2014

It's a fun ride that also offers moments of profundity concerning the less than heroic way we fight the war on terror…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 18 Jul 2014

Rich in charm, meaning and heart, it stealthy worms its way into your being, triggering your own recall button on how growing up would be so…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 18 Jul 2014

Rich in charm, meaning and heart, it stealthy worms its way into your being, triggering your own recall button on how growing up would be so…

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Review of Life Itself (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 05 Jul 2014

It's just too bad Ebert won't be around to see it…

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Review of Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case (2013)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 03 Jul 2014

Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei is a lot of things: Artist, activist, father, son. What he's not, is dull…

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Review of The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 28 Jun 2014

The emotional connections Knappenberger makes are extraordinary. And the depth of your involvement in Swartz's story is even greater…

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Review of Jersey Boys (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 Jun 2014

As Frankie Valli, John Lloyd Young doesn't hit all the dramatic notes, but, boy, can he sing…

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Review of The Grand Seduction (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 Jun 2014

McKellar confuses hokum for charm almost as often as he mistakes stupidity for cleverness…

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Review of The Rover (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 20 Jun 2014

Like Clint Eastwood in his spaghetti Westerns, Pearce does all his acting with his eyes. And it's riveting…

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