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Review of Room (2015)

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

To call the movie one of the great human achievements of recent cinema does not begin to describe the power that lives within its gripping frames…

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Review of Warcraft (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 14 Jun 2016

Sitting through this adaptation left me with the impression that I was watching nothing more than overproduced cosplay…

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Review of The Lobster (2015)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 11 Jun 2016

A brilliant and methodical consideration of strange cultural standards as they are practiced to the desensitizing peak of lunacy…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 02 Jun 2016

What it lacks in the pitch of liveliness it more than makes up for in character exposition and effective trickles of story progression…

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Review of 12 Angry Men (1957)

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

With each new viewing I come away feelings as if I have peeled away another layer on the characters and their buried motives…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 15 May 2016

Very entertaining, and a far tighter production than much of Marvel's recent output…

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Review of Se7en (1995)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 15 May 2016

For nearly every movie about a sadistic criminal that would come after, some part of us recalls the words of Detective Somerset, who may be…

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Review of Son of Saul (2015)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 09 May 2016

A modern masterpiece, full of awe and pathos, and justly sworn to a cause that reveals more about ourselves than we might be willing to deal…

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Review of Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 09 May 2016

A small vehicle, simple and altruistic, but it rises to joyous consistency because Field grips us with her dependable blend of quirks for nearly…

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Review of Town & Country (2001)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 01 May 2016

Here is such a colossally bad film that there is little wonder in how it failed so catastrophically in the public eye…

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Review of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 27 Apr 2016

Revenge stories don't get a pass just because they are about revenge…

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Review of The Jungle Book (2016)

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

When it comes to creating faithful screen adaptations of famous novels all while adding something fresh to the perspective, the movie conquers…

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Review of 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

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

Just as the movie moves into all the familiar movements of a final confrontation between captor and captive, a climax arrives that hits us…

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Review of Moulin Rouge! (2001)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 11 Apr 2016

One of the great movie spectacles of this generation, an undertaking of vast scope made all the more fascinating by how it transforms commonplace…

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Review of Hard Candy (2005)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 05 Apr 2016

An exploitation of a set of themes rather than a thoughtful consideration of them, and celebrates their austere nature in a stampede of scenes…

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Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 05 Apr 2016

The most expensive prank ever committed to film…

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Review of Zootopia (2016)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 31 Mar 2016

How refreshing it is to see an animated movie that takes the initiative to climb above the restrictions of its formula…

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Review of Little Children (2006)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 26 Mar 2016

That a movie can inspire smirks in the same scene where a potential predator is seen scuba diving in the community swimming pool underneath…

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Review of As Above, So Below (2014)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 26 Mar 2016

I have seen dozens of these queasy-cam vehicles in my 18 years as a writer of film, and so few of them ever surpass the limitations of their…

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Review of Cloverfield (2008)

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

The characters are fleshed out participants in the mayhem, not merely disposable vessels designed to stand in all the right places when buildings…

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