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Review of Ted (2012)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

The movie is hilarious in fits and starts, but nothing is sustained and every joke, funny or not, is delivered with the dial up to 11…

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Review of Total Recall (2012)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

Bland all the way through, from dialogue to action and everything in between. It's not a missed opportunity - just a total waste of time…

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Review of Suffragette (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

The movie isn't as dynamic as it could have been, but it gets to the core of what big, important social change means - and how little glory…

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Review of That Awkward Moment (2014)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

That Awkward Moment is perfectly titled - as in that awkward moment when your romantic comedy isn't at all romantic and often blithely unfunny…

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Review of White House Down (2013)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

In this slash and burn effort on logic and reason in which audience misery is the target, White House Down is a bullseye…

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Review of The Words (2012)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

The Words is an elegant piece of entertainment, replete with an understated but sweeping score, unexpected period piece vignettes, and melodramatic…

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Review of Trouble with the Curve (2012)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

Trouble With The Curve is a picture of small pleasures, and a lunkheaded finale isn't enough to ruin all of the good will it earns through…

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Review of Self/less (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

Part debacle, part footnote, sure to remind viewers of the better films they could be watching if they weren't such lousy decision makers…

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Review of Runner Runner (2013)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

The story is so inconsequential that the best performances in the world would hardly make a dent in its snooze-worthy screenplay…

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Review of The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

The talented cast and fascinating real life story are enough of a foundation to make it worth the 2-hour sentence…

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Review of The Ridiculous 6 (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

A bad movie and a frequently unwatchable one, but for the first time in years Sandler and co-writer Tim Herlihy have bothered to write real,…

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Review of Trainwreck (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

In sticking to a boy-meets-girl relationship movie model while tirelessly avoiding cliché, Schumer has uncovered something distinct. Alive…

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Review of Rust and Bone (2012)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

Built like an old, beat-up bomber - not necessarily the sleekest or most reliable, but perfectly engineered to drop emotional projectiles on…

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Review of The Sessions (2012)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

The Sessions is a skillfully layered look at the similarities and differences between people of all walks of life…

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Review of Rock of Ages (2012)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

Rock Of Ages is a soundtrack in search of a story, but it turns its utter disregard for narrative into its strongest ally…

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Review of Vacation (2013)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

Ultimately Vacation 2015 is an unknowing spoof, aping a series of - rightfully or not - beloved films without understanding at all what made…

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Review of Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

Viewers raised on Mary Poppins will be unable to resist the warm embrace of Saving Mr. Banks…

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Review of The World's End (2013)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

While The World's End might be a rousing success in the canon of many other inferior filmmakers, for Edgar Wright it's a step down…

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Review of Truth (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

This is the epitome of preaching to the choir, a movie either terrified of challenging its target audience or, even worse, unwilling to…

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Review of Terminator Genisys (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 16 Apr 2016

The most useless Terminator film to date, one that erases all Terminator films to date except the one it needed most to erase - itself…

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