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Review of Enough Said (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 25 Sep 2013

Apart from Gandolfini, this is just bland, middlebrow fare that's not intrinsically superior to standard-issue Hollywood romantic comedies…

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Review of Baggage Claim (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 25 Sep 2013

It would have been better for all concerned if [it] had been consigned to that limbo where lost luggage winds up, never to be heard from again…

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Review of Salinger (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 22 Sep 2013

Buries a few nuggets in a mountain of repetition and overstatement…

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Review of A Single Shot (2013)

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

A slow-moving, unsurprising piece of noirish backwoods pulp…

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Review of The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013)

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

A solid PBS-level treatment of the triumphs and setbacks in the career of a man who challenged American prejudices at a time when they were…

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Review of Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)

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

Nothing in the picture delivers the jolts that the first 'Insidious,' or Wan's more recent 'The Conjuring,' did…

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Review of Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 11 Sep 2013

It resembles a decent academic lecture on the subject...interesting, if hardly scintillating…

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Review of The Family (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 11 Sep 2013

Strongly cast, but Besson proves incapable of melding the nastiness and laughs into a cohesive whole--the result is tonally schizophrenic and…

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Review of Museum Hours (2012)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 11 Sep 2013

Whether you find the result tedious or enlightening will be a factor of your openness to the director's languidly atmospheric approach…

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Review of Passion (2013)

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

Though you can't logically buy into the movie in the slightest, at least you can enjoy it for the lurid trash that it is…

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Review of Passion (2013)

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

Though you can't logically buy into the movie in the slightest, at least you can enjoy it for the lurid trash that it is…

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Review of Short Term 12 (2013)

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

In lesser hands...could easily have become a tearjerker, but it neatly sidesteps the trap to remain truthful and affecting…

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Review of Drinking Buddies (2013)

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

The alcohol flows freely...but happily not all the high spirits are of the liquid variety…

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Review of Riddick (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 04 Sep 2013

A mostly competent but utterly mediocre exercise in outer-space mayhem…

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Review of The Hunt (2013)

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

A strong, moving portrait of a man shunned by the only society he knows for reasons he can't understand, marked by a stunning lead performance…

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Review of One Direction: This Is Us (2013)

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

Part concert movie, part bio-sketch and all commercial [but] expertly directed, handsomely shot, spiffily edited and--perhaps most important…

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Review of Getaway (2013)

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

So completely idiotic you might swear it was made by Luc Besson and starred Jason Statham or Liam Neeson…

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Review of The Grandmaster (2013)

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

A serious, gravely artistic, stylistically operatic film that's visually intoxicating but also a crashing bore…

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Review of Austenland (2013)

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

A broad, witless romantic comedy...a would-be homage that lacks both common sense and an appropriate sensibility…

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Review of Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 22 Aug 2013

With ostentatiously artsy visuals...and far more concern for mood than narrative coherence, it's a film that tries to mimic the style of Terrence…

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