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Review of Alex of Venice (2015)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 16 Apr 2015

Although it's enjoyable, actor Chris Messina's directorial debut is somehow less than the sum of its parts, wading only through the shallow…

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Review of Monkey Kingdom (2015)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 16 Apr 2015

Monkey Kingdom is a delightful gambol, visually stunning and educational without feeling like it, with a propulsive drama about escaping one's…

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Review of The Longest Ride (2015)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 08 Apr 2015

I didn't hate it isn't a high watermark for praise, but when it comes to most Sparks adaptations, it's practically as good as winning an Oscar…

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Review of Effie Gray (2014)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 01 Apr 2015

The film itself begins to feel like Gray, a pretty bird in a gilded cage with nowhere to fly…

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Review of Home (2016)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Mar 2015

For all its energy, razzle-dazzle and whiz-bang technology, it doesn't know how to tell a simple story or cobble together three-dimensional…

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Review of Home (2016)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Mar 2015

Lazy gags, and it's been done better elsewhere…

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Review of Home (2015)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Mar 2015

Lazy gags, and it's been done better elsewhere…

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Review of Home (2015)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Mar 2015

For all its energy, razzle-dazzle and whiz-bang technology, it doesn't know how to tell a simple story or cobble together three-dimensional…

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Review of Home (2015)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Mar 2015

For all its energy, razzle-dazzle and whiz-bang technology, it doesn't know how to tell a simple story or cobble together three-dimensional…

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Review of She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 19 Mar 2015

Civil-rights movements are never really over because they're never really won…

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Review of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 05 Mar 2015

It's asked in the film, How many new lives can we have? The answer, it turns, is however many we want…

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Review of Focus (2015)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Feb 2015

Although it brings nothing new to the con-artist fold, or even anything thrilling, Focus is a seductive enough rehash that benefits from the…

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Review of Focus (2014)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Feb 2015

Although it brings nothing new to the con-artist fold, or even anything thrilling, Focus is a seductive enough rehash that benefits from the…

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Review of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 05 Feb 2015

As tiresome as those live-action sequences are, they are more than outweighed by laughs — some riotous, some groaning and some very, very…

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Review of Black or White (2015)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 29 Jan 2015

Black or White is more remarkable for what it isn't than for what it is. For example, it isn't ripe with drama…

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Review of Still Life (2013)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 22 Jan 2015

It's not a fascinating (or even particularly interesting) character study — the film never lets you get close enough to its leading man to…

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Review of Still Life (2015)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 22 Jan 2015

It's not a fascinating (or even particularly interesting) character study — the film never lets you get close enough to its leading man to…

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Review of Still Life (2015)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 22 Jan 2015

It's not a fascinating (or even particularly interesting) character study — the film never lets you get close enough to its leading man to…

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Review of The Wedding Ringer (2015)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 15 Jan 2015

Director and co-writer Jeremy Garelick doesn't even reach high enough to pick the low-hanging fruit, opting instead to gather half-rotted,…

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Review of Paddington (2014)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 15 Jan 2015

Paddington is a mostly smart update loaded with charm, and it preserves enough of the fuzzy feelings for purists to walk away with a smile…

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