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Movie Reviews by Alison Willmore - Page 22 of 35

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Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 29 Nov 2012

If gangsterism is just capitalism in a more raw form, then Jackie is the creature best suited for this world…

Review of King Kelly (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Nov 2012

King Kelly is a broad indictment of the emptier side of self-documentation and a more nuanced one of the Internet as a source of affirmation…

Review of Life of Pi (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 20 Nov 2012

The story of Pi and Richard Parker already has the clean simplicity of a myth and really doesn't require significant elaboration, but following…

Review of Anna Karenina (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 18 Nov 2012

Scripted by playwright Tom Stoppard, the film labors to fit Tolstoy's sprawling story into its two hour and ten minute runtime by drawing its…

Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 15 Nov 2012

The glorious mess that is Pat's family and community is the warmest, funniest aspect of Silver Linings Playbook…

Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 15 Nov 2012

Bella's an empowered badass in this last installment, wielding newborn strength while showing unusual self-control and learning to use her…

Review of Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for AV Club (2,778) on 15 Nov 2012

Mea Maxima Culpa is not gentle about placing blame on a structure that elevates priests above the rest of mankind and prioritizes maintaining…

Review of Hitler's Children (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for AV Club (2,778) on 15 Nov 2012

The subjects of Hitler's Children all speak about the actions of their infamous forebears with shame, shock, or disgust, but they also make…

Review of Chasing Ice (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Nov 2012

As someone who admits to having harbored skepticism about climate change himself, two decades ago, Balog is trying to present an image-based…

Review of Lincoln (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 08 Nov 2012

This is Day-Lewis' movie, and he does with the meditative inner stillness of his character a wonderful thing - he finds a type of heroism that…

Review of Skyfall (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 07 Nov 2012

Working with the great cinematographer Roger Deakins, Mendes also presents some stunning sequences of beauty in a film where you might not…

Review of Flight (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 01 Nov 2012

Turns out to be a disappointingly standard addiction story in its second half also serves as a reminder that Hollywood tends to be more invested…

Review of Jack & Diane (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 31 Oct 2012

Werewolves aren't a new metaphor for the wildness of adolescent urges, but Jack & Diane is a trudgingly self-serious affair that doesn't manage…

Review of Cloud Atlas (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 25 Oct 2012

As is often the peril with movies of giant ambition, Cloud Atlas walks a crooked line between the glorious and the ridiculous…

Review of Fun Size (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for AV Club (2,778) on 24 Oct 2012

Justice is a pretty, personality-free screen presence, while the more interesting cast members, like Levy and Handler, are stuck in shrill,…

Review of The Loneliest Planet (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 23 Oct 2012

One of the finest of the year, The Loneliest Planet is based on a short story by Tom Bissell that's itself inspired by a famous Hemingway work,…

Review of Simon & the Oaks (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 Oct 2012

Ponderous and heavy with its own importance, Simon And The Oaks is the kind of film that's made for awards - it nabbed 13 nominations in Sweden's…

Review of Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 17 Oct 2012

The film is heavily reliant on jump scares, but its best moments are the ones before them, when the tension builds without the benefit of escalating…

Review of Alex Cross (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 17 Oct 2012

Alex Cross is filled with accidental comedy, and while it's a mess in any traditional movie sense, it's has its moments of preposterous fun…

Review of Brooklyn Castle (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Oct 2012

Indifferently structured but centered around charming characters, the documentary starts off as a chronicle of the scholastic chess year, but…

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Alison Willmore has written reviews for:

Village Voice (8,525)
Time Out (7,510)
The A.V. Club (5,644)
The Playlist (3,871)
New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519)
AV Club (2,778)
Movieline (883)
BuzzFeed News (197)
IFC.com (108)

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