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Review of Concussion (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 08 Apr 2016

Although Concussion goes light on Roger Goodell and [his stooges], enough jabs land to make it a passable indictment…

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Review of The Drop (2006)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 08 Apr 2016

Free of the extraneous nuts and bolts that so often come with crime dramas, turning simple moments like a well-placed umbrella into something…

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Review of Deliver Us from Evil (2014)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 08 Apr 2016

What begins promisingly enough ends up a gratuitously violent, underwritten, depressing scrap heap of a movie that aims for two audiences and…

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Review of 22 Jump Street (2014)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

The film's end credits feature more unbridled creativity than most films employ in their entireties…

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Review of After Earth (2013)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

If [Jaden Smith] wants a career in film, he'll need to do better than this…

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Review of 21 & Over (2013)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

In all its binge-drinking, profanity-laced, vomit-soaked glory, the film's stupefying lack of self-awareness ends up being its biggest enemy…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

A wonderful mess of a film - as lovably neurotic and unstable as the webslinger himself…

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Review of Annabelle (2014)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

In the hands of a better creative team, an all-Annabelle film might have been a grand slam…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

As a deliberate extension of multiple brands all at once, as the latest lily pad to Marvel's next big thing, it's a solid success, if not much…

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Review of 2 Guns (2013)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

By the climax, in which the duo literally shoots their way through torrents of falling cash, we're left to wonder if the whole film was engineered…

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Review of Aloha (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

A curious twist on the body swap comedy, with its talented creator and stars ostensibly pulling a switcheroo with a group of exponentially…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2007)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

Armed with a terrific cast and suspense and poignancy to spare, [director Gavin Hood's] long-awaited return to independent film is a keeper…

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Review of 99 Homes (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

How entertaining could a heavy-handed drama about the 2010 U.S. foreclosure crisis - one with a comically bad climax - possibly be…

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Review of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

It's absolutely stuffed with jokes, its pointed criticism of the news media is a natural fit, and the cast is uniformly energized…

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Review of Anomalisa (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

Its etherealness is not unfamiliar territory for Kaufman, but his way of making the familiar seem unfamiliar carries the day, as always…

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Review of American Hustle (2013)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

Full of agreeable performances and a few aha moments that most filmmakers would kill for, but it never comes together in any meaningful way…

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Review of Ant-Man (2015)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

Ant-Man is far too restrained to stand out amongst its peers, too careful to leave a lasting mark of its own…

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Review of August: Osage County (2013)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

This cast and crew is so well suited to bring this story to life that it's nearly serendipitous, and the film will play like catnip to fans…

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Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

Just by avoiding the haze of perfunctoriness that envelops so many sequels, 300: Rise Of An Empire is a success…

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Review of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 07 Apr 2016

It seems unlikely to join the director's The Rock and Armageddon as part of the prestigious Criterion Collection, but it's upper echelon [Michael]…

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