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Review of Robinson Crusoe (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 07 Sep 2016

The Mild Life' would be a better, and certainly more accurate, title for this juvenile retelling of the Robinson Crusoe story, which despite…

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Review of The Hollars (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 07 Sep 2016

Features an array of characters that are immediately recognizable-unfortunately not from real life but from innumerable movies and TV series…

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Review of Sully (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 07 Sep 2016

It could be argued that the very plainness of the picture, anchored by a predictably solid but unflashy performance by Tom Hanks, is the appropriate…

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Review of Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Sep 2016

Works best, if at all, as an exercise in nostalgia for those who look back fondly on the kind of mindless B-movie action schlock that Cannon…

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Review of Zoom (2016)

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

A convoluted comic brain-teaser that aims to delight but doesn't possess the wit needed to pull the trick off…

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Review of Zoom (2016)

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

A convoluted comic brain-teaser that aims to delight but doesn't possess the wit needed to pull the trick off…

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Review of The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016)

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

The tonal shifts between oddball quirkiness and potboiler cliché are never satisfactorily patched over, and when the ending rolls around,…

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Review of Morris from America (2016)

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

Slight but engaging fish-out-of-water coming-of-age tale…

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Review of The Light Between Oceans (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 31 Aug 2016

This adaptation of M.L. Stedman's best-selling tearjerker is tasteful, elegant and decorous-but also stiff, overinflated and ponderous…

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Review of Morgan (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 31 Aug 2016

It sets up an interesting though hardly revolutionary premise but then takes it in an entirely predictable direction, ending with rote action…

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Review of Don't Breathe (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Aug 2016

[Though] Alvarez proves an adept stager and arranger of calculated shock effects...the script isn't concerned with even an iota of logic, but…

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Review of Little Men (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Aug 2016

Gentle, generous and heartwarming but also clear-eyed and sharply observant…

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Review of Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Aug 2016

It might ramble, but you're always willing to follow Herzog's zigzag course, even if it reaches no definitive destination…

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Review of Hands of Stone (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Aug 2016

Has a certain visceral power, but it often seems a bit punch-drunk, stumbling from subject to subject without much overall shape...A pity,…

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Review of Southside with You (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Aug 2016

Tanne's imagining of the first couple's first date should prove both sweet and surprisingly revealing…

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Review of Ben-Hur (2016)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 18 Aug 2016

[A] bargain-basement treatment...the more intimate scenes are marked by risible dialogue, mediocre acting, inept staging and herky-jerky hand-held…

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Review of War Dogs (2016)

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

A bit of a mongrel, inviting us to revel in some outrageous bad-boy shenanigans before sagely concluding how wrong they were, but Hill brings…

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Review of Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016)

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

If the look of the movie should please fans, the plot is an absolute muddle-an unholy brew of flotsam and jetsam that ranges from Wagnerian…

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Review of Sausage Party (2016)

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

A movie that's clearly not for everyone, but those at whom it's targeted-whether allowed to enter according to the R rating or not-will find…

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Review of Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

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

Beautifully crafted and impeccably cast...at once a funny and touching tale of a woman who wouldn't let mere lack of talent destroy her desire…

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