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Review of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 13 Jun 2014

If 'How to Train Your Dragon' was a raging inferno of emotion, the sequel is more like a warm, cozy campfire…

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Review of 22 Jump Street (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 13 Jun 2014

How low will they go? Pretty low, but the more outrageous the indignities, the funnier the film gets…

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Review of We Are the Best! (2013)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 12 Jun 2014

Three girls, three chords in three acts, that's 'We Are the Best,' an invigorating coming-of-age comedy perfectly capturing the electrifying…

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Review of Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 06 Jun 2014

Hopefully, it will cause other filmmakers to realize you need more than a lot of blasts to make a summer movie - you also need to be a blast,…

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Review of Night Moves (2014)

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

Reichardt has always been a filmmaker who plants dots and then asks you to try and connect them…

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Review of The Normal Heart (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 24 May 2014

In shocking, unflinching detail it reminds us that silence most assuredly equals death…

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Review of Teenage (2013)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 22 May 2014

It's a terrific distraction, but it ultimately leaves you unfulfilled…

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Review of The Double (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 16 May 2014

A funny, fully realized portrait of existential madness that also finds time to pay reverent homage to Ayoade's biggest influences, Terry Gilliam…

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Review of God's Pocket (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 16 May 2014

It's sad seeing Philip Seymour Hoffman fritter away the last vestiges of his immense talent on a movie this lame-brained…

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Review of Million Dollar Arm (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 16 May 2014

It so thoroughly pillages 'Jerry Maguire' you expect 'Arm's' core crop of Indian athletes to start screaming 'show me the rupees…

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Review of Neighbors (2014)

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

It's basically an episodic off-campus Hangover mixed with a generous helping of Animal House…

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Review of The Other Woman (2014)

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

Cassavetes and first-time screenwriter Melissa Stark aren't aiming for the semi-intelligent…

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Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 04 Apr 2014

Despite all its flaws, 'The Winter Soldier' is never less than marginally watchable, even occasionally exciting…

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Review of The Unknown Known (2013)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 04 Apr 2014

The handsome, rugged 81-year-old offers only flip answers when questioned about such wide-ranging subjects as bogus WMDs in Iraq and the torture…

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Review of Anita (2013)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 04 Apr 2014

It's as if Mock is so busy sanctifying Hill that she forgot to take care of business, proving beyond a doubt that her subject's accusations…

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Review of Le Week-End (2013)

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

It's as if the filmmakers are stealthily allowing us to eavesdrop on a marriage that's evolved from bonding to bondage…

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Review of Ernest & Celestine (2012)

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

It is an animation with teeth - lots of teeth…

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Review of Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 16 Mar 2014

It has all the elements for a crackerjack neo-noir about an apothecary who foolishly attempts to fill a prescription for murder…

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Review of Bethlehem (2013)

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

A harrowing account of how many lives can be ruined when hatred is allowed to rule…

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Review of The Bag Man (2014)

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

There was a time when the possibility of Robert De Niro and John Cusack appearing in the same film would hold great promise. Not anymore…

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