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Review of The Comedian (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 02 Feb 2017

A movie that wants to be edgy but winds up as sappy and toothless as one could imagine…

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Review of Neruda (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 29 Jan 2017

An engrossing blend of poet and filmmaker, of history and art, done up in florid period style…

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Review of Paterson (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 27 Jan 2017

Even those who have resisted Jarmusch's idiosyncratic style in the past may find themselves drawn to this charmingly offbeat ode to the lift…

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Review of Gold (2017)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 26 Jan 2017

Buoyed by McConaughey's unabashedly way-out performance, the result is sporadically amusing but inconsistent and, in the end, unsatisfying…

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Review of Gold (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 26 Jan 2017

Buoyed by McConaughey's unabashedly way-out performance, the result is sporadically amusing but inconsistent and, in the end, unsatisfying…

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Review of Trespass Against Us (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 22 Jan 2017

A gritty but rather pretentious tale of father-son conflict in a backwoods British family…

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Review of Split (2017)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 22 Jan 2017

Shyamalan has made a horror movie that's cleverer than most, though not nearly as mind-blowing as his fervent admirers will claim…

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Review of Julieta (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 20 Jan 2017

Perhaps it doesn't equal Almodovar's best films, but compared to trifle like his last, 'I'm So Excited,' it represents a definite return to form…

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Review of xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 20 Jan 2017

Louder, dumber and even more cartoonish than the original-which is saying a lot-and you come out of it feeling as though you'd been trapped…

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Review of The Founder (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 19 Jan 2017

Neither hatchet job nor panegyric, Hancock's clever film allows viewers to make up their own minds about Ray Kroc, whom Keaton brings vividly…

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Review of Live by Night (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 13 Jan 2017

Affleck's attempt at an epic gangster saga is a visually handsome portrait of flawed nobility that proves far more flawed than its protagonist…

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Review of The Bye Bye Man (2017)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 12 Jan 2017

A grab-bag of hand-me-down horror movie clichés confusedly stitched together without much visual flair...its promotional tagline ...'Don't…

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Review of 20th Century Women (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 12 Jan 2017

Essentially an autobiographical coming-of-age movie, one that includes a good many affecting moments but, in the last analysis, doesn't manage…

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Review of Patriots Day (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 12 Jan 2017

Because of the subject matter...it can't help but have strong emotional impact, even if ultimately it doesn't measure up to Paul Greengrass's…

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Review of A Monster Calls (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 05 Jan 2017

Visually imaginative but lacking in narrative magic...a beautifully wrought but curiously sterile affair that probably won't appeal overmuch…

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Review of Hidden Figures (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 26 Dec 2016

Tells a genuinely compelling story, but does so in a fashion that too often feels artificial, even borderline sitcomish [though] it's hard…

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Review of Lion (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 26 Dec 2016

Designed to be a crowd-pleaser, but after a turbulent, heart-wrenching first act, the second-meant to be touchingly uplifting-instead comes…

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Review of Lion (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 26 Dec 2016

Designed to be a crowd-pleaser, but after a turbulent, heart-wrenching first act, the second-meant to be touchingly uplifting-instead comes…

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Review of Fences (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 25 Dec 2016

Fences' is historically significant, but more importantly it remains dramatically powerful, and this fastidious yet vibrant film ensures that…

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Review of Why Him? (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 22 Dec 2016

A feeble string of raucous slapstick sequences, embarrassing scatological gags and cheap sexual jokes [that's] likely to leave you depressed…

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