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Review of Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 11 Mar 2014

Like its vain Queen, it's so enamored of its own mirror image that it's hard to see past the style and get lost in the story…

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Review of Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 20 Feb 2014

If you think you know about this feminist punk group from the media coverage of their trial, and Madonna's flashes of solidarity, that's not…

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Review of The Right Kind of Wrong (2013)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 12 Feb 2014

The pedigree of the filmmakers is impressive enough that you have to wonder just what went wrong with The Right Kind of Wrong…

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Review of Machete Kills (2013)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 12 Feb 2014

The meta parody of Machete Kills is a self-congratulating exercise in overkill…

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Review of The Monuments Men (2014)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 06 Feb 2014

The Monuments Men is a far less monumental picture than it pretends to be. It has major flaws. Of course, so did Argo…

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Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 22 Dec 2011

Fincher has succeeded admirably. His Girl With the Dragon Tattoo improves on both the book and the first movie…

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Review of A Dangerous Method (2011)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 22 Sep 2011

It unfolds as a loquacious essay on the origins of psychoanalysis -- enlivened by some wry repartee from Viggo Mortensen, who steals every…

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Review of Shame (2011)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 15 Sep 2011

It's a film that I can't get out of my head: it keeps arguing with my reactions to it…

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Review of Drive (2011)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 08 Sep 2011

Gosling combines Zen-like grace with psychotic brutality, unleashing a virtually silent performance as an über-cool action hero reminiscent…

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Review of Footnote (2011)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 08 Sep 2011

With kinetic visuals, a stabbing score derivative of Hitchcock composer Bernard Herrmann, and some devastating twists, Footnote plumbs the…

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Review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 29 Jun 2011

I've never seen such a massive volume of stuff (the polite word for) thrown at the screen in all my life…

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Review of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 20 Nov 2004

Hollywood's most adventurous architect of mental space takes us on another head trip…

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Review of Spider-Man 2 (2004)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 20 Nov 2004

It's one of those rare sequels that's more satisfying than the original. The first movie had to spin the premise; the second gets to fly with it…

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Review of I, Robot (2004)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 20 Nov 2004

A mishmash of sci-fi formula and tinny special effects…

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Review of Festival Express (2003)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 20 Nov 2004

It's touching to see rock stars in such a raw, uncommercial state…

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Review of The Snow Walker (2003)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 20 Nov 2004

Arctic authenticity makes up for the false notes…

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Review of The Passion of the Christ (2004)

By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 20 Nov 2004

To give Gibson credit, with The Passion he's passionately striving for art, trying to paint the modern equivalent of a Caravaggio canvas on…

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