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Review of Trumbo (2007)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 19 Jul 2016

Trumbo just feels a bit too much like all those sainthood biopics that appear around Oscar season, with their sheen of quality and simplistic…

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Review of The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 17 Jul 2016

This was the first time anyone had seen a mosh pit on-screen, and Spheeris somehow gets right in the scrum, capturing a blur of flailing bodies…

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Review of Banksy Does New York (2014)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 17 Jul 2016

Banksy -- like most ruffians who took to scrawling on public property and fleeing the police -- has a strong anti-establishment tone running…

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Review of The Big Short (2015)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 17 Jul 2016

McKay takes us deep into the world of mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations -- I sense your eyes glazing over -- but…

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Review of Room (2015)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 17 Jul 2016

In our webbed-up world of total information, it's something we get to experience less and less of…

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Review of Amy (2015)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 12 Jul 2016

Amy shows us the vibrant and all-too-vulnerable person behind the tabloid caricature, and will make you hate yourself for ever having laughed…

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Review of Amy (2015)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 12 Jul 2016

Amy shows us the vibrant and all-too-vulnerable person behind the tabloid caricature, and will make you hate yourself for ever having laughed…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 05 Jul 2016

The lack of dramatic tension is startling…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 05 Jul 2016

The lack of dramatic tension is startling…

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Review of Straight Outta Compton (2015)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 19 Jun 2016

Straight Outta Compton swears to tell the truth, the half-truth, and nothing but the, uh... you know the rest…

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Review of Heaven Knows What (2015)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 19 Jun 2016

Kudos to the Safdies for not sugar-coating or otherwise romanticizing the experience of being an addict, but it is a bummer to watch…

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Review of Iron Man 3 (2013)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 14 Jun 2016

The latest Iron Man has everything you'd expect from a movie with 3 in its title: more fireballs, badder bad guys and a gazillion battle-armor…

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Review of The World's End (2013)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 13 Jun 2016

The film suffers due to Pegg's wearying, laddish performance, which comes off as simply obnoxious: Imagine Jim Carrey at his most manic, throwing…

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Review of District 9 (2009)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 13 Jun 2016

It has become almost impossible to make a sci-fi film these days that doesn't spend its last 30 minutes in a multiple-orgasm roar of screaming,…

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Review of Drag Me to Hell (2009)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 13 Jun 2016

Drag Me To Hell is great fun in a Haunted Mansion kind of way, a spook-house designed to make you jump with fright and squirm with tension…

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Review of Django Unchained (2012)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 13 Jun 2016

Waltz gives a great performance, mixing an outwardly genial demeanor with sudden bursts of violence, and a surprisingly kind heart for someone…

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Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 12 Jun 2016

[Bryan Singer] returns to give the franchise a needed energy boost, and while the dialogue's heavy on exposition, the action sequences feature…

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Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 12 Jun 2016

Dawn really marks a new pinnacle of expressiveness in digital animation…

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Review of Monsters University (2013)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 12 Jun 2016

Great Randy Newman score, some inspired sight gags, and a sure way to let your 6-year-old learn early on that school is all about cliques,…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 12 Jun 2016

What makes it all work, though, is the film's oddball sense of humour, and while this may all get a bit tired by the time we get to Guardians…

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