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Review of Funny Games (1997)

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

So much of it is elevated to engrossing observation because it is a movie that takes these ideas seriously, not as tools meant to turn a stomach…

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Review of Cabin Fever (2003)

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

A divisive moment between opposing tones of horror movies, and a relentless symbol of the director's unfiltered panache for the macabre…

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Review of Opera (1987)

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

Movies like Opera can be treasures for minds inclined to dip further into the shadows…

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Review of Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

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

A strange and off-putting experience, filled with endless miscalculations in nearly every detail it attempts to build up, including performances…

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Review of Candyman (1992)

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

The goals of the picture never come into focus, usually because it is too busy bouncing between the methodical deviations of the villain and…

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Review of Halloween (2007)

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

Most filmmakers would simply amp up the visual assault for the sake of stirring the minds of desensitized viewers; Zombie is brave enough to…

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Review of Don't Breathe (2016)

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

There is no doubt that Alvarez has a knack for creating effective framing devices, and the movie is chock-full of good suspense…

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Review of Blair Witch (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 21 Sep 2016

There is a lot of good stuff going on here, not the least of which is a climax so well-orchestrated that it plays right into our urge to peak…

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Review of Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 21 Sep 2016

A film of nourishing visual insights and visionary storytelling that inspires as thoroughly as it dazzles…

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Review of The Tree of Life (2011)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 21 Sep 2016

Malick's points are more enriching than the mere mutterings from a confused filmmaker…

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Review of Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

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

Not a happy portrait of a figure unburdened by the hard edge of criticism; it is a sad retelling, showing a woman who used the stage as a means…

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Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 18 Aug 2016

Funny, enjoyable and beaming with positive energy, and nowadays that's more than enough to warrant the excursion…

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Review of Into the Abyss (2011)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 21 Jul 2016

A mark of tremendous insight that plays like another notch in the social dashboard from which Werner Herzog continues to find his inspiration…

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Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 16 Jul 2016

A film that is equally as good as the original: a tightly-wound, precise and frightening excursion into the shadowy odyssey of paranormal dangers…

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Review of The Shallows (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 16 Jul 2016

A delivery of careful and well-modulated tension when it could have merely been another run-of-the-mill bloodbath with bad special effects…

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Review of Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 10 Jul 2016

The screen becomes immediately occupied with the earlier survivors, but who wants to see them at all, especially when their entire existence…

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Review of The Secret Life of Pets (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 10 Jul 2016

Much of this sounds rather exciting and whimsical when you paint a portrait in a movie review, but replace the dogs and cats with inanimate…

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Review of The Reflecting Skin (1990)

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

Moves with dreamlike confidence through a culvert of hard realities that are unflinching and insufferable, sometimes to the point of personal…

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Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 23 Jun 2016

A quirky menagerie of all the fundamental ingredients of a passable Pixar vehicle: adventure, complex plot situations, perceptive dialogue,…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 21 Jun 2016

The texture of the endeavor is more than enough to sell the attempt. These are images with some level of depth and distinction to them…

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