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Review of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 05 Jan 2012

Confuses profundity with bathos, narrative elegance with literary archness and emotional power with sentimental handwringing…

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Review of War Horse (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 23 Dec 2011

Aching to be magical, the picture instead comes off as a 'Wonderful World of Disney' retread on steroids...what might have been heart-on-sleeve…

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Review of The Artist (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 23 Dec 2011

Essentially a stunt, but an expertly executed one that's immensely enjoyable, especially for movie buffs...a nimble, exuberant lark…

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Review of We Bought a Zoo (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 22 Dec 2011

Nothing more than an old-fashioned, family-friendly tearjerker that's good-natured but not very successful at strumming the heartstrings, which…

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Review of The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 20 Dec 2011

It's a visual marvel and, like the Energizer Bunny, never stops going, but in the end proves more exhausting than exhilarating…

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Review of Carnage (2014)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 19 Dec 2011

Enjoyable enough on the surface, but it's essentially meretricious--so much, in fact, that you'll be a bit ashamed at having had a fairly good…

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Review of We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 19 Dec 2011

Despite the degree of control Ramsay exercises, what's likely to stick with you...is the portrait Miller draws of unfathomable malice and Swinton…

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Review of Carnage (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 19 Dec 2011

Enjoyable enough on the surface, but it's essentially meretricious--so much, in fact, that you'll be a bit ashamed at having had a fairly good…

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Review of Carnage (1984)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 19 Dec 2011

Enjoyable enough on the surface, but it's essentially meretricious--so much, in fact, that you'll be a bit ashamed at having had a fairly good…

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Review of Carnage (2002)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 19 Dec 2011

Enjoyable enough on the surface, but it's essentially meretricious--so much, in fact, that you'll be a bit ashamed at having had a fairly good…

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Review of Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 15 Dec 2011

The inexplicably popular live action/animated series featuring a bevy of screechy-voiced singing rodents reaches its third--and one fervently…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 15 Dec 2011

A big-boned, bombastic summer-style action movie served up as a Christmas treat for fans suffering winter withdrawal pangs for such fare…

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Review of Young Adult (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 14 Dec 2011

A bracing comedy-drama that's a sharp gender-bending dissection of the Peter Pan syndrome…

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Review of A Dangerous Method (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 14 Dec 2011

Mirrors its title in being--like all of Cronenberg's work--superbly methodical, but also captures the dangerous undercurrents implicit in the…

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Review of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 14 Dec 2011

An improvement on its 2009 predecessor...Hardly your father's Sherlock Holmes, but...an acceptable action movie in the modern mode…

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Review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 14 Dec 2011

A superb adaptation of a brilliant book, made with...fidelity, care and intelligence…

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Review of The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 09 Dec 2011

Shows little sign of the deep emotional undercurrents one might expect in a son's treatment of his father, but it does present a clear, incisive…

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Review of The Interrupters (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 09 Dec 2011

Though formally conventional, it carries a powerful message about the reality of life in the inner city and the struggles of thise who live…

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Review of Shame (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 09 Dec 2011

A viscerally compelling portrait of addiction, but in the end it seems more an intellectual and artistic exercise than a fully-rounded drama…

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Review of New Year's Eve (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 08 Dec 2011

The combination of cheap humor and sappy sentiment is all too pat, and...the characters are so cardboard that to call them stock sitcom types…

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