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Review of The Words (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

It's nothing you haven't seen before in films about struggling artists spending more time obsessing than working…

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Review of Trouble with the Curve (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

As much as I loved Clint's squinty-eyed punditry at the RNC, his latest pitch for a mitt is - to quote Bob Uecker - just a bit outside…

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Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Rapace goes out of her way to insure you never forget her Lisbeth Salander, a diminutive gal with a colossal chip on her shoulder…

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Review of Compliance (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

It never loses sight of its goal to persuade us to be more aware, more questioning of our leaders and institutions, from politicians to priests…

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Review of Before Midnight (2013)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

I found it comforting, even cathartic, to know that even 'the most perfect couple' can have its moments of stress and strain when put to the…

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Review of Up in the Air (2009)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

One of the warmest and most entertaining films of this or any year, which is saying something considering it's about a man who fires people…

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Review of Robot & Frank (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

A slightly futuristic treatise on aging, family and the pitfalls of mechanical screenwriting…

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Review of Mirror Mirror (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

You can only disappoint your fans so often before they turn and run in droves. Just ask Roberts' close friend, Mel Gibson…

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Review of The Queen of Versailles (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Humanizes the upper one percent in a 100-percent entertaining way…

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Review of Frankenweenie (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

It ranks among Burton's most personal films, encompassing familiar themes of loneliness, isolation and an insatiable need for love and acceptance…

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Review of Hope Springs (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

As estranged bedfellows, Tommy Lee Jones (he's a little bit Harvard) and Meryl Streep (she's a little bit Yale) make great combatants in a…

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Review of Premium Rush (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Gordon-Levitt proves he's the best actor on two wheels, pedaling furiously to save a grueling ride from becoming more tiresome…

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Review of Blue Like Jazz (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Sodom and Gomorrah are paradoxically brought back to life in the form of an Oregon-based liberal-arts college in this Christian recruiting video…

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Review of The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Instead of wanting to turn over a new leaf, I wound up OD-ing on sap…

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Review of Seven Psychopaths (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

It's a tossup over what's more prevalent: the laughs or the body count…

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Review of Behind the Candelabra (2013)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Soderbergh takes something as hoary as a celebrity biopic and turns it into a magnificent opus composed of bold overtures and brassy melodies…

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Review of Butter (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

The characters want to melt your heart, but like everything in Butter, they're just too pat…

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Review of Killer Joe (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

McConaughey is making an emphatic statement that 2012 is going to be his renaissance…

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Review of Ruby Sparks (2012)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Kazan the writer asks a lot of Kazan the actress, putting her through an emotional wringer while also calling upon her to convincingly traverse…

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Review of Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 25 May 2013

Part 1 remains marginally compelling, if for no other reason than that it sets the table for the vastly superior Part 2…

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