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Review of Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 19 Dec 2013

Though it embraces a host of cliches and tugs all too insistently at the heartstrings...viewers should respond with affection to this slickly…

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Review of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 18 Dec 2013

Cartoonish, shambling, disjointed [and] as resolutely dumb as its characters…

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Review of The Great Beauty (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 13 Dec 2013

Even those who find it overstuffed, opaque and derivative will be bowled over by its sheer pictorial extravagance and visual sheen…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 12 Dec 2013

Providing a riot of action but little more than that, [it's] big and visually opulent but oddly lumbering and dull…

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Review of The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 10 Dec 2013

All the cinematic extravagance is merely a cloak for what's essentially an overripe tearjerker…

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Review of Out of the Furnace (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 05 Dec 2013

A film...at war with itself...the trappings of serious commentary on contemporary socio-economic issues simply do not sit happily on a narrative…

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Review of Oldboy (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 28 Nov 2013

A respectable piece of filmmaking from a purely technical perspective [but an] unnecessary, inferior remake...Lee's 'Oldboy' is harder to swallow…

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Review of At Berkeley (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 26 Nov 2013

The patient viewer will come away from it understanding the breadth and importance of what such an academic enterprise does…

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Review of Black Nativity (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 26 Nov 2013

Even though its heart is in the right place and it boasts a strong cast, it's a case of preaching--and singing--to the choir…

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Review of Homefront (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 26 Nov 2013

A distinctly old-fashioned, by-the-numbers actioner that breaks no new ground and treads familiar territory without much dash…

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Review of Frozen (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 26 Nov 2013

Among Disney's recent non-Pixar animated efforts, it falls between 'Tangled' and 'Wreck-It Ralph' on the one hand and 'Planes' on the other...middle-grade…

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Review of The Armstrong Lie (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 21 Nov 2013

A retread...This is the first Gibney film that feels superfluous…

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Review of Delivery Man (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 21 Nov 2013

Improve[s] on the original…

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Review of Nebraska (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 21 Nov 2013

Maintains a wonderful balance between sentiment and satire...almost magical in its mixture of humor and poignancy…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 20 Nov 2013

Readers of the book should be more than satisfied, and non-devotees will find this a smoother, more affecting ride than its predecessor as well…

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Review of The Best Man Holiday (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 14 Nov 2013

A visually spiffy but narratively flabby ensemble piece that veers uneasily from raucous farce to mawkish melodrama…

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Review of Thor: The Dark World (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 07 Nov 2013

A brainless, chaotic piece of comic-book hokum so loud and action-packed that by the end you might feel you've been clobbered over the head…

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Review of Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 07 Nov 2013

Can be criticized for shoehorning its story into a familiar framework to make it more comfortable for mainstream audiences…

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Review of About Time (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 31 Oct 2013

When this schmaltzy, brutally manipulative dramedy finally grinds to a halt, it's you who'll probably be saying 'It's about time…

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Review of Free Birds (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 31 Oct 2013

Utterly mediocre. It probably won't be long before it goes the way of the dodo…

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