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Review of Hysteria (2011)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 24 May 2012

For a film that's so up in women's business, it's surprising how far it gets from putting an authentic woman on the screen…

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Review of Murder Capital of the World (2012)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 17 May 2012

Despite the lack of solutions, Murder Capital of the World accomplishes what seems to be Minn's goal: make his American audience feel compassion…

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Review of What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 17 May 2012

It is, indeed, what a moviegoer should expect from a genre in which an ensemble cast of famous, pretty faces is loosely strung together by…

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Review of The Island President (2012)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 19 Apr 2012

Shenk's tight storytelling makes for a gripping film that delivers the ugly, at times ennobling, truth…

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Review of Mirror Mirror (2012)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 29 Mar 2012

A cartoonish, nonsensical mishmash that falls somewhere between a Saturday morning cartoon and the Three Stooges…

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Review of The Hunger Games (2012)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 23 Mar 2012

Take away the hullabaloo surrounding the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins' best-selling young adult book and what you have is an absorbing…

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Review of John Carter (2012)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 09 Mar 2012

Disney and director Andrew Stanton may have dusted off the creaky franchise and wrapped it in $300 million worth of 3-D digital effects, but…

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Review of Act of Valor (2012)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 24 Feb 2012

Moments before and between the missions plays like stilted filler cable TV programming, but once our heroes step onto that helicopter or sea…

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Review of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 20 Jan 2012

Yes, Daldry extracts a few tears in the process, but the increasing number of precious touches leaves you feeling pandered to and clumsily…

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Review of The Iron Lady (2011)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 13 Jan 2012

Even Ms. Streep's best efforts can't rescue this sloppy biopic from itself…

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Review of The Artist (2011)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 23 Dec 2011

The story and the silent-era conventions may not be entirely original, but the director revives this uniquely American storytelling style with…

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Review of Shame (2011)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 21 Dec 2011

When Fassbender is paired with McQueen, the actor is at his most intense, physical and even a little frightening…

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Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 20 Dec 2011

Fincher delivers a well-paced story (even at more than 2 1/2 hours), without a lot of unnecessary Hollywood flash…

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Review of Hugo (2012)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 23 Nov 2011

Hugo is as much a tribute to the medium that gave [Scorsese] life as it is to the magical world Selznick created in his illustrated book…

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Review of Hugo (2011)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 23 Nov 2011

Hugo is as much a tribute to the medium that gave [Scorsese] life as it is to the magical world Selznick created in his illustrated book…

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Review of My Week with Marilyn (2011)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 23 Nov 2011

Williams' delicate, underplayed performance demonstrates the actress' courage and confidence in her own talent to take herself - and her audience…

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Review of The Descendants (2011)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 18 Nov 2011

The balmy breezes and small-town intimacy of island life give The Descendants a leisurely tone that distinguishes it from Payne's more angry-edged…

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Review of Like Crazy (2011)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 11 Nov 2011

Doremus reminds us of what love felt like the first time - before our hearts were dented, dinged or all-out broken - when we could fall irrationally…

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Review of J. Edgar (2011)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 11 Nov 2011

We get straightforward narration and expository dialogue that introduces each time-traveling vignette and dictates Hoover's tiresome me versus…

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Review of Tower Heist (2011)

By Alison Gang (138) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 04 Nov 2011

Tower Heist and its cast still manage to hit a few functional notes that allow the film to pass as a serviceable comedy that will probably…

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