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Review of Night Moves (2014)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Sep 2013

After a terrific first hour that crescendos in an extended sequence of quiet yet potent white-knuckle suspense, the film loses some traction…

Review of Begin Again (2014)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Sep 2013

The film’s quiet pleasures creep up on you…

Review of August: Osage County (2013)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Sep 2013

Wells directs the actors smoothly enough in individual scenes, but his work lacks the cohesiveness to really pull all the characters together…

Review of One Chance (2013)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 12 Sep 2013

An utterly formulaic but sweet movie that does what a crowd-pleaser is meant to do…

Review of Tom at the Farm (2014)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 12 Sep 2013

Less time spent fetishizing his own image and more on building credible character dynamics and psychological complexity might have helped make…

Review of The Railway Man (2013)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 Sep 2013

The Railway Man is well-acted and handsomely produced, but its honorable intentions are not matched with sustained emotional impact or psychological…

Review of The Sacrament (2014)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 10 Sep 2013

It makes savvy use of the well-worn found-footage format, modulating its creepy scenario with considerable skill…

Review of Are You Here (2013)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 08 Sep 2013

This tonal mess rarely puts a foot right as comedy and makes only marginal improvements when it turns poignant toward the end…

Review of Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 08 Sep 2013

What distinguishes Borten and Wallack’s screenplay is its refusal to sentimentalize by providing humbling epiphanies to set Ron on the right…

Review of Kill Your Darlings (2013)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 05 Sep 2013

There’s a limber, freewheeling aspect to the storytelling that echoes the rule-breaking literary form of the Beat writers…

Review of The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 22 Aug 2013

The real defeat in this ambling fairy tale of hardship, abandonment and resilience is that two potentially winning central characters -- and…

Review of C.O.G. (2013)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Aug 2013

It’s not bad, but it’s ineffectual -- shuffling from one semi-satirical vignette to the next and then veering into soul-searching territory…

Review of To Die For (1995)

By David Rooney (943) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Aug 2013

Charting the ruthlessness of an ambitious bimbo telecaster in Little Hope, New Hampshire, this staccato black comedy sustains its brilliant…

Review of A Teacher (2013)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Aug 2013

What makes the film work is that this potentially lurid material is treated at all times with sensitivity and probing psychological seriousness…

Review of Jayne Mansfield's Car (2013)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Aug 2013

Thematically diffuse, tonally inconsistent and blighted by an inauthentic feel for its story’s time and place, it sits awkwardly between…

Review of Broken (2013)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 Jul 2013

There are simply too many characters jostling for attention and too many competing plot strands in a not-quite-seamless marriage of hard-edged…

Review of Broken (2013)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Jul 2013

There are simply too many characters jostling for attention and too many competing plot strands in a not-quite-seamless marriage of hard-edged…

Review of Broken (2013)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Jul 2013

There are simply too many characters jostling for attention and too many competing plot strands in a not-quite-seamless marriage of hard-edged…

Review of Beneath (2013)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Jul 2013

Beneath gets capsized as much by its knuckleheaded script as by its somewhat risible giant flesh-eating fish…

Review of Beneath (2013)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 Jul 2013

Beneath gets capsized as much by its knuckleheaded script as by its somewhat risible giant flesh-eating fish…

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