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Review of Sex and the City (2008)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 09 Oct 2013

The ladies settle into the doldrums of marriage and their antics are reduced to a detached series of scenes that involve sulking, yearning…

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Review of Titus (1999)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 29 Sep 2013

audaciously steps outside of the tradition when it comes to film adaptations of the bard's works, but it also does so much more: notably,…

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Review of Stand by Me (1986)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 25 Sep 2013

When you are an adventure-seeker stuck in that odd transition between early youth and adolescence, few movies resonate more than Stand by Me…

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Review of Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2012)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 19 Sep 2013

Seldom has a film inspired so much dislike in viewers towards the very system designed to protect them…

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Review of Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 18 Sep 2013

The unanswered questions at the end of Paradise Lost were the kind that could inspire not only a need for a follow-up documentary, but indeed…

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Review of 300 (2007)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 12 Sep 2013

Our instinctual desire to sneer at the implausibility of the story is stalled by a sense of ambition that seems unmatched even by the standards…

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Review of Riddick (2013)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 11 Sep 2013

One would suspect that a man who took such audacious risks in the second film would have a few more surprises up his sleeve for the third round,…

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Review of Cries and Whispers (1972)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 09 Sep 2013

Some have called it the most painful movie he ever made, and it is easy to see why: the three sisters at the center have lost the wisdom of…

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Review of Network (1976)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 05 Sep 2013

The mystic quality within Network is that it pitches curve balls at us that have meanings relative to our unique situations, and all of them…

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Review of Mud (2013)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 04 Sep 2013

Often the movies absorb these ideas in plots that are eager to retread to action and violence, but Nichols finds a resonating and sharp tone…

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Review of Blue Jasmine (2013)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 02 Sep 2013

None of the characters seem to be human, but rather objects conditioned by a series of tactical tragedies…

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Review of M (1931)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 01 Sep 2013

The movie looms over our cinema like a hand of consequence, haunting us with its austerity and power long after others have faded from the mind…

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Review of The Secret of Kells (2009)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 28 Aug 2013

This is perhaps the most enchanting and zealous animated endeavor you will see this side of the Pixar lineup…

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Review of Man of Steel (2013)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 27 Aug 2013

The screenplay by David S. Goyer is like an arm wrestling match between brain and muscle, and when one takes charge the other falls out of line…

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Review of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 25 Aug 2013

This is a premise that might work in the hands of more eager filmmakers, but here it is reduced to a collection of fragmented scenes designed…

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Review of Hitchcock (2012)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 22 Aug 2013

A movie about the late great director poses a question too great to ignore: how does one truly capture the idea of Hitchcock in a span of only…

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Review of Magnolia (1999)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 21 Aug 2013

As the years pass and we are weathered by universal experiences, the predicaments of Anderson's characters seem less pathetic and more like…

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Review of Oblivion (2013)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 19 Aug 2013

Are we really seeing a movie called Oblivion at all…

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Review of Elysium (2013)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 18 Aug 2013

In a handful of aspiring filmmakers that have hard things to say about the state of our world and the histories we may be doomed to repeat,…

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Review of The Red Violin (1998)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 14 Aug 2013

Like the immaculate instrument it follows, The Red Violin is a piece of filmmaking fully refined by the hands of someone who believed in the…

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