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Review of My Brother the Devil (2012)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 02 Apr 2013

Highly recommended. (Writer-director) El Hosaini handles the various volatile relationships within the film with intelligence and sensitivity…

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Review of Satan's Angel: Queen of the Fire Tassels (2012)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 02 Apr 2013

Walker's brassy personality takes a bit of getting used to and I wish the film featured more serious discussion of Walker's relationship with…

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Review of Strange Frame (2012)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 02 Apr 2013

An undeniably stylish and ambitious animated sci-fi film…

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Review of Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 15 Mar 2013

(James) Franco's performance is one of the better, more genuine things about Disney's given-to-excess adaptation/prequel…

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Review of Stoker (2013)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 15 Mar 2013

The violent yet artful stylings of Korean director Park Chan-Wook are applied to a Southern Gothic plot with artistically queasy results…

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Review of Britain's Greatest Codebreaker (2012)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Rage Monthly (2) on 08 Mar 2013

Excellent and engrossing due in large part to the work of director Clare Beavan, editor Leigh Brzeski and actor Ed Stoppard…

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Review of The We and the I (2012)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 08 Mar 2013

A return to successful form for (director Michel) Gondry after 2011's wretched The Green Hornet...captures the modern teen spirit, lingo and…

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Review of Hava Nagila: The Movie (2012)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 05 Mar 2013

Fun and illuminating...The movie as well as the song serve as fitting, entertaining testaments to the resilience of the Jewish people…

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Review of Warm Bodies (2013)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 10 Feb 2013

Adds welcome doses of romance (yes, really) and humor to the zombie genre. Nicholas Hoult gives his most endearing performance to date…

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Review of Spiders (2013)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 10 Feb 2013

Evoked for me pleasant childhood memories of watching such giant monsters on the loose B-movies as Them…

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Review of West of Memphis (2012)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 27 Jan 2013

(Director Amy) Berg's doc is gripping, often infuriating, but in the end hopeful about the ability of truth and innocence to prevail thanks…

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Review of Tabu (2012)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 27 Jan 2013

For a decades-spanning, country-hopping romance on a low budget, Tabu looks great...it intentionally evokes in aesthetics, settings and/or…

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Review of Tabu (2012)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 27 Jan 2013

For a decades-spanning, country-hopping romance on a low budget, Tabu looks great...it intentionally evokes in aesthetics, settings and/or…

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Review of Let My People Go ! (2011)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 19 Jan 2013

May well be the world's first French-Jewish-Finnish-Gay movie. Enjoyably campy…

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Review of The Sessions (2012)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 28 Nov 2012

Deeply moving. The Oscar-worthy (John) Hawkes invests his character with a sense of grace and humor that nullifies any potential pity…

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Review of Life of Pi (2012)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 28 Nov 2012

A thought-provoking religious parable. Profound, haunting and beautifully made…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 28 Nov 2012

If only the other films in the series featured such surprises (as in this film's climactic battle) instead of being so by-the-numbers in adaptation…

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Review of Lincoln (2012)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 28 Nov 2012

A talky, 150-minute affair but not without interesting modern-day ironies and parallels…

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Review of Rust and Bone (2012)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 23 Nov 2012

Unsparing. It isn't a love story for everyone, but many will find it and its two lead performances undeniably powerful…

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Review of Chasing Ice (2012)

By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 23 Nov 2012

So long as filmmaker Jeff Orlowski keeps his focus on the findings from (James) Balog's Extreme Ice Survey (EIS)...Chasing Ice is gripping…

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