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Review of Blue Jasmine (2013)

By Emily W (395) on 30 Mar 2015

This film was boring and the actors performed very poorly…

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Review of The English Patient (1996)

By Emily W (395) on 11 Mar 2015

It's one of those big, sweeping, epic love stories. As such, it has moments of earned grandeur as well as drawn-out boredom…

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Review of The Lazarus Effect (2015)

By Emily W (395) on 01 Mar 2015

Good movie but it gives off a Frankenstein effect. it relies on predictable Jump scares and doesn't work with the atmosphere very well…

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Review of The DUFF (2015)

By Emily W (395) on 22 Feb 2015

Reductive and not nearly as smart as it pretends, The Duff would be a complete failure if it weren't for its two funny leads…

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Review of Amélie (2001)

By Emily W (395) on 21 Feb 2015

A cute film at its core that is quickly hampered by an excessive runtime and shortage of Pushing Daisies-esque imagery…

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Review of Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

By Emily W (395) on 17 Feb 2015

This film is perfect in my mind. I like poetic movies and this little ditty is the most poetic movie of them all…

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Review of The Boy Next Door (2015)

By Emily W (395) on 25 Jan 2015

In the end, it all comes down to a failure of tone for The Boy Next Door…

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Review of Girl, Interrupted (1999)

By Emily W (395) on 21 Jan 2015

The filmmakers successfully extract the battle between succumbing to and fighting a mental illness from the memoir, but fail to drum up the…

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Review of The Skeleton Twins (2014)

By Emily W (395) on 15 Jan 2015

Somehow an odd mix of powerfully moving in a surprisingly shallow way…

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Review of Rage (2014)

By Emily W (395) on 08 Jan 2015

Pathetic film wanted to see for Nicholas Cage. But a big disappointment…

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Review of The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014)

By Emily W (395) on 04 Jan 2015

The elements of old-school horror and the great performance by Fox came dangerously close to overcoming the rest of the film's lazy schlock,…

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Review of The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

By Emily W (395) on 31 Dec 2014

A necessarily languid movie about the trip that shaped Che Guevara's political beliefs that's a bit too long and a bit too preachy…

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Review of Beginners (2011)

By Emily W (395) on 28 Dec 2014

I just watched this movie based on the great reviews, but the one-dimensional, pointless female love interest just made me depressed…

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Review of Zombieland (2009)

By Emily W (395) on 24 Dec 2014

Insanely fun and instantly quotable, Zombieland's charm overcomes its less than stellar fundamentals…

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Review of Lost in Translation (2003)

By Emily W (395) on 17 Dec 2014

I know I shouldn't root for their relationship to work out, but I do…

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Review of Mad Max (1979)

By Emily W (395) on 10 Dec 2014

Mad Max is all car chases and manly posturing, which is well done, but I like coherent plot and characters in my films…

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Review of The Homesman (2014)

By Emily W (395) on 07 Dec 2014

A two-hander with excellent performances by Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones that ultimately has nowhere to go…

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Review of Ordinary People (1980)

By Emily W (395) on 26 Nov 2014

The Jarrett family is well-realized and Redford's direction is solid, but the script is overlong and its side characters are more like caricatures…

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Review of Rachel Getting Married (2008)

By Emily W (395) on 19 Nov 2014

Rachel Getting Married is raw and real, with a screenplay that captures the way weighted conversations between family members really goes down…

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Review of Thelma & Louise (1991)

By Emily W (395) on 19 Nov 2014

Thelma & Louise isn't only a movie, it's also a journey. In some dark night of your distant past, you might once have dreamed about taking it…

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