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Movie Reviews by Annlee Ellingson - Page 26 of 43

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Review of Playback (2012)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 22 Apr 2012

Playback takes a potentially intriguing concept and punctuates it with extreme gore rather than thrilling suspense…

Review of The Lady (2011)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 19 Apr 2012

Ambitious and slightly lengthy, the film presents a sequence of events that, though in hindsight a bit of a muddle, leaves an unforgettable…

Review of The Island President (2012)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 29 Mar 2012

Those who learn of his and his country's plight through Shenk's smartly crafted film can't help but sit up and pay attention to the course…

Review of Friends with Kids (2012)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 09 Mar 2012

Friends with Kids is not a lecture, though -- rather, a romantic comedy for adults for whom issues like family planning are a reality…

Review of Attenberg (2010)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 09 Mar 2012

Attenberg gets down in the emotional muck where life, death and sex intertwine…

Review of Chico & Rita (2010)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 26 Feb 2012

Unfortunately, an evocative setting--the evolution of Afro-Cuban jazz in Havana and New York--sets the stage for a rather slight romance…

Review of Haywire (2011)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 20 Jan 2012

It remains to be seen whether Carano can do more than kick ass. But for now, she's a compelling candidate to join the pantheon of female action stars…

Review of In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 13 Jan 2012

It's a brutal, upsetting viewing experience that parses the physical, emotional and moral tolls of war and indicts world-governing bodies for…

Review of Beauty and the Beast (1991)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 13 Jan 2012

Beauty and the Beast is just as enchanting 20 years after its initial release…

Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 15 Dec 2011

Ultimately it's Mara who has to pull it off and deliver Lisbeth's unique brand of cunning and power fueled by revenge. She's a knockout…

Review of Albert Nobbs (2011)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 15 Dec 2011

A modest film with memorable characters tackling big themes…

Review of Sleeping Beauty (2011)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 Dec 2011

Leigh strikes an observational, artful tone that builds to an emotional climax as fittingly yet frustratingly enigmatic as anything that's…

Review of Tomboy (2011)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 22 Nov 2011

The awful inevitability that Laure could be found out at any moment--by her parents, by her friends--renders Tomboy an excruciating viewing…

Review of In Heaven Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery (2011)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 22 Nov 2011

It's far too much ground for one 90-minute documentary to cover ... In Heaven, Underground, though, is gorgeously photographed…

Review of J. Edgar (2011)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 11 Nov 2011

J…

Review of The Double (2011)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 29 Oct 2011

A throwback genre flick, complete with a throwback lead, that gives away its double cross early yet maintains enough mystery to keep viewers…

Review of Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 24 Oct 2011

Ultimately, script, style and performance coalesce in Martha Marcy May Marlene for a riveting yet excruciating viewing experience…

Review of Klitschko (2011)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 24 Oct 2011

Despite a confusing opening sequence and a disappointingly anticlimactic ending, Klitschko makes for a thrilling boxing documentary…

Review of Oranges and Sunshine (2010)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 24 Oct 2011

The script occasionally employs a clumsy voiceover, but later the same technique works wonderfully, pairing the most dramatic plot points with…

Review of 50/50 (2011)

By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 03 Oct 2011

[The filmmakers] tap into the wonderful complexity of the material: Cancer is awful, but it's instructive and loving and funny, too…

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