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Review of The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 17 Nov 2016

Surprisingly sharp and insightful and often very funny, but with a strong strain of serious drama in the mix…

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Review of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 17 Nov 2016

Fails to achieve the balance of sharp satire and dramatic heft that Lee was aiming for…

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Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 17 Nov 2016

A less than magical introduction to the new series...a slightly misshapen piece in which the secondary characters are more immediately appealing…

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Review of Almost Christmas (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 10 Nov 2016

It's too bad that so attractive a cast was burdened with trying to inject some fun into such piffle...a far from festive cinematic experience…

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Review of Arrival (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 10 Nov 2016

More brain-teaser than action film, this is an elegantly-wrought piece of thinking-person's science fiction...that plays with convention in…

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Review of Loving (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 10 Nov 2016

May feel overly subdued in telling such a major civil rights story in such a low-key fashion, but Nichols' gently intense approach is true…

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Review of Moonlight (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 05 Nov 2016

A searing coming-of-age tale, one that goes well beyond any genre boundaries to resonate in a universal way…

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Review of Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 03 Nov 2016

Gibson uses tried-and-true tropes so effectively that you don't mind how hokey they actually are, and he stages the battle sequences...with…

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Review of Trolls (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 03 Nov 2016

You might label 'Trolls' as 'F.T.O.'-meaning 'for tots only,' like the Smurfs, though the studio is obviously hoping it can appeal beyond that demo…

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Review of Doctor Strange (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 03 Nov 2016

Not strange enough; it has plenty of CGI magic effects, but lacks the cinematic magic that would set it apart from the other franchises in…

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Review of The Handmaiden (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 01 Nov 2016

A rich, intoxicating epic of chicanery and deceit-a puzzle that entangles the viewer just as it does its characters…

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Review of Supersonic (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 01 Nov 2016

Provides a fine, if hectic snapshot of the golden years of the band-the triumphs onstage and the brotherly bickering backstage…

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Review of Tower (2016)

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

Maitland's skillful assemblage of material gives his recounting of the terrible event remarkable immediacy while also endowing it with nightmarishly…

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Review of Certain Women (2016)

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

An interesting addition to a distinctive career, but not Reichardt at her best…

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Review of Dionne Copland's Inferno (2016)

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

Another heaping helping of hopeless hokum from the team of Brown, Howard and Hanks-a scavenger hunt of historical nonsense and thriller clichés...But…

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Review of Inferno (2016)

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

Another heaping helping of hopeless hokum from the team of Brown, Howard and Hanks-a scavenger hunt of historical nonsense and thriller clichés...But…

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Review of In a Valley of Violence (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 23 Oct 2016

At once homage and send-up...a genially goofy oater that's not quite clever enough to be more than an amusing trifle…

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Review of Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 23 Oct 2016

The unsavory plot permutations of the final reel undercut the promise of the earlier ones....Though a cut above the usual horror fare, this…

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Review of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 19 Oct 2016

It has such a familiar ring that you might feel you're watching another prosaic episode of the long-running 'NCIS' franchise…

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Review of American Pastoral (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 19 Oct 2016

While fastidiously made, McGregor's film is dramatically inert-a pretty but shallow rendering of Roth's novel…

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