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Review of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 17 Jan 2014

Pine brings Ryan to life as a real person -- one who gets in over his head and is actually nervous about it, instead of acting like a puffed-up…

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Review of Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 17 Jan 2014

Murnau deftly balances the changes in tone, going from a deep foreboding to complete bliss, and using Expressionistic techniques like forced…

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Review of Her (2013)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 10 Jan 2014

It doesn't just reflect the ways that technology has irrevocably changed our life, Her challenges the nature of our humanity and exposes a raw nerve…

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Review of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

By Eric Melin (822) for Lawrence.com (115) on 10 Jan 2014

It steers away from any kind of sentimentality, so any time serious discussion of success or failure - either commercially or artistically…

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Review of Lone Survivor (2013)

By Eric Melin (822) for Lawrence.com (115) on 10 Jan 2014

There's not much time between fighting for the audience to contemplate the tricky ethical questions that surround the mission, so the film…

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Review of Herø (2001)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 10 Jan 2014

It doesn't just reflect the ways that technology has irrevocably changed our life, Her challenges the nature of our humanity and exposes a raw nerve…

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Review of Thief (1981)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 08 Jan 2014

It's almost as if Mann was shot out of the womb fully formed as a visual artist, because the slick, neon-lit widescreen images of 1981′s…

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Review of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 30 Dec 2013

A cynical, nasty satire about humans regressing to infantile levels…

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Review of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 30 Dec 2013

It fast-forwards past a ton of struggle and conflict to get its character to a heroic place, and after the CGI-heavy daydream scenes, the real-life…

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Review of American Hustle (2013)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 30 Dec 2013

Believe it or not, amidst all of the oversized collars and outlandish suits, [Russell] wrings pathos out of [his characters]…

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Review of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 19 Dec 2013

The artificial nature of the story is part of the point, of course, but there's not a strong enough satirical streak here to keep it afloat…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 16 Dec 2013

Very similar to LOTR with lots of walking montages and an identical central conflict--the corrupting temptation of the ring and a call to courage…

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Review of Out of the Furnace (2013)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 06 Dec 2013

Scott Cooper musters zero surprises in a script that takes too long establishing a tired premise and plays it out in grimy, dull fashion…

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Review of All Is Lost (2013)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 06 Dec 2013

The key ingredient to the film's success is Redford's vulnerability…

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Review of Nebraska (2013)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 06 Dec 2013

Dern's portrayal of Woody takes on new shades, and its impossible not to warm up to him, just as the emotional resonance of his story sneaks…

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Review of 12 Years a Slave (2013)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 22 Nov 2013

Through a rich, grueling portrait of the machinery of institutionalized slavery, it asks us to examine the rotten core of slavery and how it…

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Review of All Is Bright (2013)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 22 Nov 2013

Morrison films this redemptive story - which has some hard-to-swallow moments - with a dusty gray palette that suits its characters and masquerades…

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Review of Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 22 Nov 2013

McConaughey's nonstop energy and his character's will to survive carries the film, even in its most conventional moments…

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Review of White House Down (2013)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 22 Nov 2013

Directed by Roland Emmerich (the guy who blew up the White House once before in Independence Day), it has that old-school buddy action vibe,…

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Review of The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 22 Nov 2013

Woodward is solid and the entire film turns on her performance, which gets deeper and more convincing as the story opens up a bit…

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