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Review of Palo Alto (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 20 May 2014

Palo Alto is the sort of debut picture that makes me eager to see how Gia Coppola is going to grow and change as an artist, but it's more than…

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Review of Maps to the Stars (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for HitFix (861) on 18 May 2014

Julianne Moore seems to be the one person in the film that truly gets the tone right, playing Havana like a person walking a tightrope over…

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Review of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for HitFix (861) on 15 May 2014

This is a sequel that has its own story to tell and that gets right down to it, and it expands on the ideas from the first film, but in a way…

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Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for HitFix (861) on 12 May 2014

It feels like the single most successful attempt to pull the shape of one of the beloved comic stories into the film world…

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Review of Million Dollar Arm (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 10 May 2014

It's a feel-good story that raises cultural questions that the film doesn't seem terribly interested in answering, and it feels like an easy…

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Review of Godzilla (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 10 May 2014

This could easily be ground zero for a whole new series of films, but if it remains a stand-alone single movie, Edwards told an entire story,…

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Review of The Other Woman (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for HitFix (861) on 04 May 2014

This thing swings from broad gross-out comedy to something that seems to be struggling to be a reflection of real life, and it never establishes…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for HitFix (861) on 27 Apr 2014

By the end of this film, they've done a very good job of setting up the next three or four films in the series, but at the expense of this…

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Review of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 17 Apr 2014

The film plays with some funny ideas about time travel, and like any good time travel movie, it flirts with paradox and what happens when you…

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Review of Son of God (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 17 Apr 2014

There is nothing in this version that make any of this feel urgent or even important…

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Review of Chef (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 17 Apr 2014

The film is loose and genuine and makes great use of place…

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Review of Veronica Mars (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 17 Apr 2014

As someone who enjoyed the show enormously while it was on the air, I am relieved to report that the film felt to me like it successfully recaptured…

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Review of Non-Stop (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 17 Apr 2014

It's a completely average film that makes a few terrible choices…

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Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 17 Apr 2014

300: Rise Of An Empire is a worthy sequel to 300, stylistically consistent and equally loony, featuring what may well be the first truly can't-miss…

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Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 17 Apr 2014

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a tremendous piece of pop entertainment, smart and engaging and featuring a home run movie star lead…

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Review of Need for Speed (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 17 Apr 2014

Need For Speed is several different movies at once, and most of them are very stupid…

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Review of Rio 2 (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 17 Apr 2014

Rio 2 is a perfect example of franchise maintenance in place of storytelling…

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Review of Cesar Chavez (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 17 Apr 2014

The script by Keir Pearson is admirably restrained in many ways, but it is also almost completely devoid of anything that would give the film…

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Review of Noah (2014)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 17 Apr 2014

Darren Aronofsky's Noah is not just one of the most ambitious films I've seen this year, it's one of the most ambitious films I've ever seen…

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Review of Sabotage (1937)

By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 17 Apr 2014

There's a great sense of rot to everything as shot by Bruce McCleery, and David Sardy's score is propulsive and appropriately caustic…

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