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Review of Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

By Jake C (820) on 27 Feb 2018

Immaculately framed, stunningly acted (especially from newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward), and incredible costume and production design…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Jake C (820) on 27 Feb 2018

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014) is a modern day auteur film…

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Review of Miracle Mile (1989)

By Jake C (820) on 27 Feb 2018

Very nice movie, just one thing I don't understand is that it seems to start like a romantic comedy and suddenly two cops are killed and it's…

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Review of Taxi Driver (1954)

By Jake C (820) on 26 Feb 2018

Martin Scorsese's rough, stylish, and dangerous drama boasts an original, yet incredible screenplay, beautiful and lush cinematography, a gripping…

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Review of Taxi Driver (1976)

By Jake C (820) on 26 Feb 2018

Martin Scorsese's rough, stylish, and dangerous drama boasts an original, yet incredible screenplay, beautiful and lush cinematography, a gripping…

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Review of Black Panther (2018)

By Jake C (820) on 26 Feb 2018

I was amazed when I saw that the Gimp from Pulp Fiction got his own movie, but it was a big disappointment when I found out that it's just…

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Review of The Crying Game (1992)

By Jake C (820) on 24 Feb 2018

IRA story turned into transvestite lover. I think I am still scarred from this one. Some good acting though. 1001 movies to see before you die…

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Review of Gladiator (2000)

By Jake C (820) on 24 Feb 2018

For all its excesses, the brutality and emotion of the combat come off as grounded and gut-wrenching more often than not…

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Review of Truck Turner (1974)

By Jake C (820) on 24 Feb 2018

Ludicrous and fun when it's working. A talented cast keeps the plot moving, even when Hayes' weak underperformance sinks the energy…

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Review of Gladiator (1992)

By Jake C (820) on 24 Feb 2018

For all its excesses, the brutality and emotion of the combat come off as grounded and gut-wrenching more often than not…

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Review of Three the Hard Way (1974)

By Jake C (820) on 24 Feb 2018

Squandered potential with a great villain and mediocre justice…

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Review of Justice League (2017)

By Jake C (820) on 24 Feb 2018

Ultimately, the origin stories, narrative threads, stylistic tones, even the graphics-nothing about Justice League quite comes together…

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Review of Nightcrawler (2014)

By Jake C (820) on 22 Feb 2018

A true movie masterpiece and great acting from Gyllenhaal…

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Review of The Guest (2014)

By Jake C (820) on 19 Feb 2018

Nothing new here, so the 89% score is really weird…

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Review of The Guest (2014)

By Jake C (820) on 19 Feb 2018

Nothing new here, so the 89% score is really weird…

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Review of Foxy Brown (1974)

By Jake C (820) on 15 Feb 2018

As blaxploitative as they come, but Grier is such a force that the more problematic elements are easy to overlook when she's commanding the screen…

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Review of Super Fly (1972)

By Jake C (820) on 15 Feb 2018

The movie may glorify the pusherman, but that Curtis Mayfield OST cuts straight to the real social issues underlying the narrative…

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Review of Enemy Mine (1985)

By Jake C (820) on 14 Feb 2018

One of the last few true science fiction stories committed to film before Hollywood decided to get really ridiculous and simply churn out overblown…

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Review of G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

By Jake C (820) on 12 Feb 2018

I love these movies…

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Review of Back to the Future (1985)

By Jake C (820) on 12 Feb 2018

As being my favorite film ever made, Robert Zemeckis's science-fiction spectacle dazzles, makes us laugh and keeps us on our toes when tension…

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