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Review of Labyrinth of Lies (2014)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 22 Oct 2015

The film, which mixes fact with fiction, is an honorable if sometimes melodramatically facile attempt to portray a watershed moment in modern…

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Review of Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 22 Oct 2015

Even the most dedicated fan will find this a soporific conclusion to a series that has been careening downhill since the first installment…

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Review of Bone Tomahawk (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 21 Oct 2015

While overlong and awfully leisurely (as well as remarkably gory)...quite enjoyable, rather like a version of 'The Hills Have Eyes' transplanted…

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Review of Room (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 21 Oct 2015

A strong, remarkably acted tale of the bond between mother and child tested by the most extreme circumstances…

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Review of Goodnight Mommy (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 17 Oct 2015

Although you might figure out the big final twist in 'Goodnight Mommy' early on-which isn't all that difficult to do-it will probably still…

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Review of Steve Jobs (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 14 Oct 2015

Sorkin, Boyle and Fassbender have painted an impressionistic portrait rather than a naturalistic one, using their imagination and gift for…

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Review of Beasts of No Nation (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 13 Oct 2015

Undeniably hard to watch, but also a dramatically wrenching depiction of contemporary realities one might prefer to ignore-but shouldn't…

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Review of Bridge of Spies (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 13 Oct 2015

Though fastidiously made, in terms of both its evocative period setting and its skillful emotional manipulation, in the end the picture comes…

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Review of Crimson Peak (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 13 Oct 2015

A haunted mansion that from moment to moment is pretty to look at but turns out to be utterly empty inside…

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Review of Goosebumps (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 13 Oct 2015

As if their Adam Sandler flop 'Pixels' wasn't juvenile enough, Sony Entertainment offers what's essentially a kiddie version of it in 'Goosebumps,…

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Review of He Named Me Malala (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 09 Oct 2015

A disappointment, clumsily constructed and more hagiographical than truly enlightening…

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Review of X+Y (2014)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 09 Oct 2015

Hardly breaks new ground, but it's a watchable entry in the tortured young genius genre…

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Review of Pan (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 07 Oct 2015

Falls flat on its face...raucous, bloated with special effects and thoroughly lacking in charm, 'Pan' is the rare family movie that should…

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Review of Freeheld (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 07 Oct 2015

A glorified TV movie-of-the-week that doesn't do full justice to either the real-life story on which it's based or to its committed cast...but…

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Review of 99 Homes (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 07 Oct 2015

Dramatically it's a deck as stacked as the one that unscrupulous bankers and realtors dealt to the borrowers who lost everything…

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Review of The Martian (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 30 Sep 2015

Upbeat and dramatically subdued,...it's characteristically handsome but uncharacteristically warm-hearted for a Scott film…

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Review of Martian (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 30 Sep 2015

Upbeat and dramatically subdued,...it's characteristically handsome but uncharacteristically warm-hearted for a Scott film…

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Review of The Walk (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 29 Sep 2015

This is a great story, but Zemeckis' film proves an overly cute retelling of it, and except for the walk itself it's more a cinematic misstep…

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Review of Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 23 Sep 2015

A depressingly flat attempt to wring a few more dollars out of the premise that drove its mediocre 2012 predecessor…

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Review of Stonewall (2015)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 23 Sep 2015

Comes across as a heartfelt piece of work, but also one that's stilted, cliché-ridden and grossly manipulative…

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