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Review of Spring Breakers (2013)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 22 Apr 2013

Most shocking of all is that while Spring Breakers takes some time to find its bearings, this may be the most confident and artistically-grounded…

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Review of The Punk Singer (2013)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 22 Apr 2013

Over two decades of Hanna's life in just 80 minutes has us wanting more, not to mention the opportunity to share her story as a way to show…

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Review of You're Next (2013)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 22 Apr 2013

Where Agatha Christie's fiction took you towards many of the very same solutions, You're Next ups the stakes to having its protagonists fight…

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Review of Before Midnight (2013)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 22 Apr 2013

When the lists of the greatest trilogies are made, Linklater, Hawke & Delpy's deserves to rank alongside LOTR, Christopher Nolan's Batman and…

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Review of Stories We Tell (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for Film Threat (5,156) on 16 Feb 2013

Polley points the camera at members of her own family and not only informs on where her directorial efforts stem from but confirm her as one…

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Review of Ass Backwards (2013)

By Erik Childress (902) for Film Threat (5,156) on 16 Feb 2013

A below-90-minute running time is not even a silver lining to a film that lives up to its name in more ways than one…

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Review of Touchy Feely (2013)

By Erik Childress (902) for Film Threat (5,156) on 16 Feb 2013

The twosome and threesome of Shelton's past becomes six individuals, each dealing with an aversion to emotional and physical contact to such…

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Review of The Spectacular Now (2013)

By Erik Childress (902) for Film Threat (5,156) on 29 Jan 2013

The Spectacular Now does not come close to earning that certain kind of isolation that teenagers feel, certainly never coming close to equaling…

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Review of The Look of Love (2013)

By Erik Childress (902) for Film Threat (5,156) on 29 Jan 2013

He Look of Love forgets all the other senses when it comes to getting what makes Paul Raymond so fascinating, desensitizing us to caring even…

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Review of In Our Nature (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 29 Nov 2012

Like Carnage it gets off to a rocky start in keeping all its protagonists from leaving the movie…

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Review of Rust and Bone (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 19 Nov 2012

If the name Nicholas Sparks was within fifty feet of it, it would be laughed out of the theater sight nearly unseen…

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Review of Cloud Atlas (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 10 Oct 2012

Hopefully we will be able to outlive the debate of its existence between those who feel it to be a bloated mess and others like me who view…

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Review of The Impossible (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 10 Oct 2012

With a decidedly Spielbergian flair, the theme of altruism takes on great meaning through the other side of this tragedy and the characters…

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 10 Oct 2012

David O. Russell delivers wonderfully left-of-center entertainment time and time again and this is no exception…

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Review of Starlet (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 10 Oct 2012

Both Hemingway and Johnson give solid, believable performances and one could guess that even if Baker & Bergoch's script didn't feel as natural…

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Review of End of Watch (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 21 Sep 2012

A serviceable cop flick with two solid central performances…

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Review of Aftershock (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 18 Sep 2012

Aftershock gets a little Sunshine-like ridiculous in its final act and becomes a bit too routine, but for a good hour this is a genuinely successful…

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Review of Brave (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 20 Jun 2012

It wasn't enough that Disney already made a direct-to-video sequel to Brother Bear, but now the company that changed the future of animation…

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Review of Rock of Ages (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 14 Jun 2012

It is as if the writers tossed off everything they learned from Almost Famous and instead went with the subtle empowerment message of Coyote…

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Review of Prometheus (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 06 Jun 2012

The not-a-prequel tactic is a failed smoke screen since its strength is the connection to the beginning of a universe…

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