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Review of Disturbia (2007)

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

When it comes to recalling the best of Hitchcock's important film lessons, here is a decent movie that at least remembers the buildup is just…

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Review of Horrible Bosses (2011)

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

Like rats in a collapsed maze, these are characters struggling hard to find a path to comedic freedom, and are constantly getting lost in the…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

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

If anything is certain beyond the wavering quality of this series, it's that it has always remained focused on the immense strength of its…

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Review of Dial M for Murder (1981)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 25 Nov 2015

The movie is worth seeing even now, if for no other aim than to show a man ambitiously experimenting with the devious facets that would inspire…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 25 Nov 2015

No other film of 2015 has dared to suggest something so simple, or do it with such painstaking brilliance…

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Review of Ruthless People (1986)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 25 Nov 2015

A great deal of bizarre circumstances occur in this very effective farce, and for any mind that is easily won over by the insistence of shocking…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 25 Nov 2015

No other film of 2015 has dared to suggest something so simple, or do it with such painstaking brilliance…

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Review of Dial M for Murder (1954)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 25 Nov 2015

The movie is worth seeing even now, if for no other aim than to show a man ambitiously experimenting with the devious facets that would inspire…

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Review of The Magician (1958)

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

Like the subject it portrays, it is a movie that genuinely seems to sense the guilty delight of life's unending irony…

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Review of The Peanuts Movie (2015)

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

Every once in a while the past comes back to haunt us fondly, and The Peanuts Movie is, perhaps, the most enchanting of those more recent mainstream…

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Review of The Conjuring (2013)

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

A movie that exemplifies the golden standards of the haunted house formula and escalates them to something rather rousing…

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Review of Goodnight Mommy (2015)

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

Many a motion picture will attempt to pull the rug from underneath us, but seldom is it yanked with this much potency, or with such a lack…

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Review of Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 20 Oct 2015

Fueled by a sense of pacing and stylistic orchestration that allows the scares to build naturally in the shadows, and not on a level that hammers…

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Review of Crimson Peak (2015)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 18 Oct 2015

With a movie that looks this great, why is del Toro holding his narrative back in the throes of convention? It is not a sound impulse…

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Review of Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 14 Oct 2015

The movie isn't merely bad, it's incompetent…

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Review of The Evil Dead (1981)

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

The movie plays like an entry point into the infectious minds of ambitious overachievers, who do exactly what they want and offer no apologies…

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Review of Mad Max (1979)

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

A solid and entertaining spectacle, filled with brilliantly staged action scenes and made all the more fascinating for its oracular indication…

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Review of The Green Inferno (2013)

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

An indication of how far out of touch horror films have become from their more simplistic origins, when everything was about thrills instead…

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Review of Watership Down (1978)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 27 Sep 2015

The movie is the antithesis of the modern standard, plodding and patient, unbothered by flashy bright images or relentless comical interludes…

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Review of Notes on a Scandal (2006)

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

The strength of the writing, and therefore the directing, is that it sees the scandal as a minor point in a human experience that is naturally…

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