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Review of Jersey Boys (2014)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 19 Jun 2014

It never reaches the soaring, cloud-busting heights of Frankie Valli’s otherworldly falsetto, and it doesn’t even try…

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Review of The Immigrant (2013)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 05 Jun 2014

Visually evokes Coppola’s Godfather Part II and Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America, but in its utterly irony-free melodramatic sincerity…

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Review of Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 04 Jun 2014

All in all, a perfectly superior example of industrially fortified Hollywood fun, and as good a guarantee as Doug Liman can offer that we haven’t…

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Review of Godzilla (2014)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 15 May 2014

Godzilla – both the movie and the big guy – is otherwise something of a lumpy, lumbering great beast of a thing, lurching from city to…

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Review of Belle (2013)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 08 May 2014

Needless to say, Belle is a handsome piece of selectively reupholstered history, but its lesson on the victories of social progress in England…

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Review of Joe (2014)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 01 May 2014

None of this would work with anywhere near the power it does without Nicolas Cage, whom Green has smartly cast in this sometimes maddeningly…

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Review of Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq (2014)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 17 Apr 2014

Watching De Clercq dance is not only what Nancy Buirski’s uneven documentary does to best effect, it helps you understand the movie’s otherwise…

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Review of Enemy (2014)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 13 Mar 2014

Shot before the Canadian director made the major-studio, suburban-vigilante drama Prisoners, Enemy operates on a level of carefully calibrated…

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Review of Like Father, Like Son (2013)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 07 Mar 2014

While the case could be made that Koreeda is merely replicating the world as the blinkered Ryota sees it, the disparity between the characters’…

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Review of Son of God (2014)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 27 Feb 2014

So yes, if you’ve seen The Bible, you’ve already seen most of Son of God – but if there’s one story where spoilers just don’t apply,…

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Review of About Last Night (2014)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 13 Feb 2014

It’s high quality sweetness, as carefully prepped and prettily presented as any of the meals, cocktails and home decorating binges partaken…

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Review of The Great Beauty (2013)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 31 Jan 2014

An utterly ravishing portrait of listless luxuriance, a fantasy of decadent wealth and beauty…

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Review of Lone Survivor (2013)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 09 Jan 2014

This is a contemporary war-is-hell account in which hell burns so intensely that it scorches the firewalls of the mundane world around it…

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Review of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 24 Dec 2013

In adapting Mitty's tale to the 21st century, actor-director Ben Stiller proves Thurber -- a dyed-in-the-wool cynic -- is still too thorny…

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Review of Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 20 Dec 2013

Unfortunately, the only thing that dies harder in the movies than natural selection is careworn cliché, and Barry Cook and Neil Nightingale’s…

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Review of The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers (2013)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 12 Dec 2013

Not much room for controversy here, and certainly none for counterargument, this is prime-time TV history rendered as a soothing, Papa Bear…

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Review of The Last Days on Mars (2013)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 06 Dec 2013

Although ably directed by feature first-timer Ruairi Robinson, and gamely performed by a cast professional enough to feign alarm and surprise,…

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Review of Oldboy (2013)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 27 Nov 2013

Lee’s is more of a hard-edged, hammer-and-nail noir than Park’s existential horror, and it’s far less concerned with the internal state…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 22 Nov 2013

The result is not only a dramatic improvement over what was already an unusually smart and satisfying pop-cultural parable of insurgent 99-per-cent…

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Review of How I Live Now (2013)

By Geoff Pevere (572) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 15 Nov 2013

As a dystopian teen movie, Macdonald’s adaptation of Meg Rosoff’s young adult novel is refreshingly free of digital apocalyptics and unnervingly…

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