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Review of Hell or High Water (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 13 Mar 2017

A real film, full of wit and insight, and carried by actors that rise above the pointedness of their dialogue to discover something profound…

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Review of Basic Instinct (1992)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 03 Feb 2017

Here is a film so utterly devoid of art and intellect that nothing remains other than a husk of ridiculous ploys…

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Review of Moana (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 03 Feb 2017

The story is an echo of that ever-so-familiar journey in which young heroines become restless with the grind of their routines and wander beyond…

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Review of Split (2017)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 03 Feb 2017

Split sees M. Night Shyamalan elevated back into the veil of the serious filmmaking contenders…

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Review of Funny Lady (1975)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 03 Feb 2017

A strange anomaly of a film that rarely works and often bores to the point of exhaustion, but how thrilling that a pair of committed actors…

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Review of Funny Girl (1968)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 03 Feb 2017

In lesser hands this would fall flat because nothing is written to comfort the supporting players. They are extras with names and blurred faces…

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Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 30 Dec 2016

The first act is the frenetic embodiment of the Hollywood machine, but the final 30 minutes is a rousing climactic battle on the empire's home turf…

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Review of The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 22 Dec 2016

We continue to reflect on the movie's lessons long after the laughs have diminished because they are sound, relevant and conveyed by the talents…

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Review of De Palma (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 22 Dec 2016

By the end, regardless of how one feels about any number of his pictures, there is no question that he was a man who made movies exactly the…

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Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 22 Dec 2016

The plot loses its foothold just as the momentum should be taking over, leading us into a barrage of meandering episodes that lack the compelling…

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Review of Arrival (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 22 Dec 2016

In times when audiences are trained to be enamored by special effects and simplified narrative patterns, Arrival is an unusual discovery: a…

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Review of Doctor Strange (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 24 Nov 2016

A film far more rich, entertaining and intellectual than the promotional trail of glitzy images and ambitious visual effects would have you believe…

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Review of Moonlight (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 20 Nov 2016

An audacious, emboldening injection into the fabric of the American consciousness, a film that will be remembered as a watershed among followers…

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Review of Denial (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 19 Nov 2016

Humble, well-acted and has its mind in the right perspective, and in a society that is eager to use political hyperbole as a weapon against…

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Review of Denial (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 19 Nov 2016

Humble, well-acted and has its mind in the right perspective, and in a society that is eager to use political hyperbole as a weapon against…

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Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 19 Nov 2016

Not the sort of excursion that is alien to the eccentric Tim Burton, but unlike a plethora of the director's recent output it sticks to you…

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Review of The Girl on the Train (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 06 Nov 2016

A strange excursion into the tackiest of subject matters: the sort that builds its leads up into objects of a misogynist agenda that is extremely…

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Review of A Serbian Film (2010)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 06 Nov 2016

There exists a hard, bitter audience for the likes of A Serbian Film, one of the most graphic depictions of human suffering I have ever seen…

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Review of Trick 'r Treat (2007)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 06 Nov 2016

Those that have grasped its intentions have every reason to be happy with the end result…

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Review of Unfriended (2014)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 25 Oct 2016

There are some noteworthy thrills amongst a plethora of urgent details…

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