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Review of The Artist (2011)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 23 Feb 2012

It may look like an art film, but it's anything but…

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Review of The Mob (1951)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 23 Feb 2012

An expertly-plotted noir, less psychologically disturbing and more straight-up undercover crime drama, but it ratchets up the tension nicely…

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Review of Anonymous (2011)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 23 Feb 2012

Roland Emmerich's lurid, pulpy approach isn't subtle, but it suits the material, since this is presented as a controversial exposé…

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Review of Anonymous (2011)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 23 Feb 2012

Roland Emmerich's lurid, pulpy approach isn't subtle, but it suits the material, since this is presented as a controversial exposé…

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Review of Safe House (2012)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 11 Feb 2012

The characters are woefully underdeveloped, have way less interesting philosophical discussions, and it doesn't work as a thriller either…

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Review of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 11 Feb 2012

Because the story is related through young Scout and Jem, that childhood wonder and fear is never close behind…

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Review of Drive (2011)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 11 Feb 2012

It's a slow-burn romantic fairy tale that suddenly turns dark and very violent, but director Nicholas Winding Refn is a master at developing…

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Review of Safe House (2012)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 11 Feb 2012

The characters are woefully underdeveloped, have way less interesting philosophical discussions, and it doesn't work as a thriller either…

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Review of Chronicle (2012)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 04 Feb 2012

The movie has to cheat every now and then to cover the story more fully (who has edited all this found footage together so perfectly…

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Review of The Whistleblower (2010)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 30 Jan 2012

The Whistleblower goes off the rails a little -- I guess in an attempt to create more drama out of an already dramatic situation…

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Review of Man on a Ledge (2012)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 30 Jan 2012

Man on a Ledge is so tired and hackneyed and straight out of a bad 80s TV show that there's even scene where one of them has to disable a timer…

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Review of In Time (2005)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 30 Jan 2012

The movie doesn't ask much of them, acting-wise, as it devolves into a chase film and doesn't spent any time examining all the thorny moral…

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Review of In Time (2011)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 30 Jan 2012

The movie doesn't ask much of them, acting-wise, as it devolves into a chase film and doesn't spent any time examining all the thorny moral…

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Review of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 20 Jan 2012

Horn's nonstop barrage of words fits the character, but he's supposed to be filled with terror and anxiety and it just comes across as overly…

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Review of Higher Ground (2011)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 15 Jan 2012

Movies don't often show the religious fervor of characters like these with such earnestness, and Farmiga's layered performance helps the movie…

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Review of The Guard (2011)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 15 Jan 2012

John Michael McDonagh is having a lot of fun deconstructing the cop procedural in The Guard, because almost nothing goes as planned and everything…

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Review of The Guard (2011)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 15 Jan 2012

John Michael McDonagh is having a lot of fun deconstructing the cop procedural in The Guard, because almost nothing goes as planned and everything…

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Review of Carnage (2011)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 13 Jan 2012

Roman Polanski keeps things moving at a quick pace, so Carnage rises above its inherent cinematic limitations…

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Review of Branded to Kill (1967)

By Eric Melin (822) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 13 Jan 2012

Because its so free of the conventions of other crime thrillers, that in and of itself is thrilling…

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Review of Carnage (1984)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 13 Jan 2012

Roman Polanski keeps things moving at a quick pace, so Carnage rises above its inherent cinematic limitations…

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