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Review of The Impossible (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 03 Jan 2013

Perhaps Jaws and Open Water are the only other movie experiences that might engender more fear of the sea…

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Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 03 Jan 2013

[It's]a harrowing adventure behind the headlines that is at once a riveting procedural and, at the same time, a bracing political statement…

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Review of Promised Land (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 28 Dec 2012

The movie threatens to become one of those late '60s/early '70s heavy-handed message movies, but it's somewhat salvaged by Damon's innate likability…

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Review of Barbara (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 21 Dec 2012

The plotting, the planning and the deepening relationships don't make for kinetic action, but they are the foundation for a smart, engrossing film…

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Review of Any Day Now (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 13 Dec 2012

Any Day Now, about a gay couple in '70s LA trying to adopt a boy with Down syndrome, has movie-of-the-week melodrama written all over it…

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Review of Bad Kids Go to Hell (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 07 Dec 2012

The movie isn't scary enough for horror fans, gruesome enough for the slasher crowd or campy enough to be funny, so it falls into something…

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Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 03 Dec 2012

The anvils of obviousness rain down so hard and fast in New Zealand-born/Australian-based director Andrew Dominik's meditation on low-rent…

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Review of Life of Pi (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 20 Nov 2012

Technology and transcendence may sometimes be at war, but in Life of Pi, Ang Lee's spectacular take on the popular Yann Martel novel, they…

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Review of A Royal Affair (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 15 Nov 2012

History may not always be fun, but, at least in this case, it's fascinating…

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Review of Tai Chi Zero (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 17 Oct 2012

The cross-cultural, steampunk, martial arts/comic-book Sino-Anglo mash-up...[is]visually entertaining…

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Review of Seven Psychopaths (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 10 Oct 2012

With its blend of low-rent gangster cool, high-body-count hipster violence, smart-mouth dialogue, inspired casting and a blissfully retro soundtrack...[this]might…

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Review of The Revisionaries (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 03 Oct 2012

This frontline skirmish in the culture wars [over school textbooks] is the subject of Scott Thurman's engrossing documentary…

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Review of Taken 2 (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 03 Oct 2012

Taken 2…

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Review of Looper (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 26 Sep 2012

There hasn't been much lately for those who crave some brain power along with their effects-driven firepower…

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Review of End of Watch (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 21 Sep 2012

The ingredients in [this] cop drama are as routine as a traffic stop…

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Review of Compliance (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 21 Sep 2012

There's the adage that life is nasty, brutish and short. It's even worse when you're half-naked and locked in a supply room with your boss…

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Review of 10 Years (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 21 Sep 2012

10 Years is no Big Chill, but it has just enough warmth to keep it alive…

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Review of General Education (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 09 Sep 2012

If given the choice between going to class and seeing the high-school comedy General Education, go with school…

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Review of Lawless (2012)

By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 28 Aug 2012

Based on a novel by Dallas-based Matt Bondurant about his family's real-life bootlegging past, it's a violent, brooding portrait of brotherhood…

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Review of Limitless (2011)

By Cary Darling (452) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 17 Mar 2011

Burger has opened up what was a very interior book and injected it with a jolt of cinematic electricity. Smart move, smart movie…

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