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Review of Poltergeist (2015)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 22 May 2015

As far as exterior circumstances go, one wonders if the most tragic sacrifice was supplying this material with voices too passive to suggest…

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Review of Foxcatcher (2014)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 26 Apr 2015

Here is a movie that regards people with sympathetic gazes rather than details, fully aware how all things will pan out but fascinated enough…

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Review of Undocumented Executive (2013)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 15 Apr 2015

There is a certain sophistication to the characters, many of whom recognize their predicaments but wear them enthusiastically in the presence…

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Review of The Imitation Game (2014)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 06 Apr 2015

A very thoughtful and bewildering drama about a man who was meant to do great things in a world that was not ready to accept his eccentricities…

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Review of The Imitation Game (1980)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 06 Apr 2015

A very thoughtful and bewildering drama about a man who was meant to do great things in a world that was not ready to accept his eccentricities…

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Review of Earth to Echo (2014)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 01 Apr 2015

Clichéd and predictable it may all be, there is no denying the infectious quality of pure optimism…

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Review of Love Actually (2003)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 30 Mar 2015

Seldom have we seen such an extensive ensemble of talent in the movies yanked through the material like lambs on their way to a slaughter…

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Review of My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 13 Mar 2015

Akroyd and Basinger give the film an infectious stroke of energy, and by the end we continue to smile even as we are exhausted under the weight…

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Review of Chappie (2015)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 08 Mar 2015

Too enthralled by the urgent rush of scenario to pause for the contemplation. It is one of those movies that reacts before it thinks…

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Review of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 03 Mar 2015

A celebration of the lost art of political incorrectness…

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Review of The Lazarus Effect (2015)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 28 Feb 2015

This isn't a journey, it's a funeral procession…

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Review of Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2002)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 31 Jan 2015

All 87 minutes of the film consists of interviews, with no inclination to stage it beyond the words acting as reveals of insightful new information…

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Review of A Most Violent Year (2014)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 31 Jan 2015

So well made and focused as an endurance test that our eyes refuse to turn away from the events, even as the movie drifts breezily through…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 17 Jan 2015

This is not only a great film, but an important landmark in how great films can be made…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 17 Jan 2015

This is not only a great film, but an important landmark in how great films can be made…

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Review of Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 09 Jan 2015

The plot uses the presence of the Greek gods as an indistinct outline to influence teenagers who are more interested in the prestige and glamor…

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Review of The Purge (2013)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 08 Jan 2015

An effective balance of mood and style, not overburdened by grotesque displays of violence but suggestive enough to create a space of believable…

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Review of The Interview (2014)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 03 Jan 2015

Like an amateur with a shotgun, the movie fires everything it can at the screen without ever hitting a target…

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Review of Into the Woods (2014)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 01 Jan 2015

Into the Woods sulks under a deadening series of moments in which characters sit around contemplating their fates with morose undertones, often…

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Review of White Dog (1982)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 22 Dec 2014

The central motive of the movie plays like a tragic melody…

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