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Review of The In-Laws (1979)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 21 Jul 2016

A feat of casting genius; Hiller knew to let Peter Falk and Alan Arkin do their thing with as little interference as possible…

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Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 19 Jul 2016

The new Ghostbusters are frequently very funny, although the movie as a whole is never quite as funny as you think it will be…

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Review of Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 18 Jul 2016

The film is a puzzle, but one you don't necessarily have to solve in order to enjoy it or take something away from it…

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Review of Captain Fantastic (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 17 Jul 2016

Works more than it doesn't, but it's hard not to wish that Ross had made his targets a little less broad and his own perspective a little more nuanced…

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Review of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 13 Jul 2016

Dr. Strangelove does what so few comedies do today: it challenges us, provokes us, unsettles us while also making us laugh…

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Review of Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 11 Jul 2016

While there is inherent diversity among these players, there is so much about them that is the same in terms of personality, desires, and ideologies…

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Review of The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 11 Jul 2016

David Yates overdirects the film to the point that he gives us vertigo long before Tarzan grabs onto a single vine…

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Review of La Chienne (1931)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 10 Jul 2016

The first film to fully embody the naturalistic style and complex social themes that would come to be associated with Renoir's best work…

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Review of Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 07 Jul 2016

The basic structure works fine and some of the ideas are pretty good, but there is no emotional resonance; the characters are all flat, even…

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Review of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 05 Jul 2016

Juggles the tones and genre shifts with an impressive deftness that makes it feel all of a piece even though, in many ways, it is all over the place…

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Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 04 Jul 2016

Isn't quite as good as the first film, but it works well enough on multiple levels that it's hard to begrudge Wan for taking the characters…

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Review of Zootopia (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 19 Jun 2016

A fast and funny fable about the need for tolerance and understanding in a world in which fear and prejudice are more convenient…

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Review of Alice in the Cities (1974)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 15 Jun 2016

A simple story beautifully and poignantly told…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 07 Jun 2016

Just when you start thinking there's something there, the film shifts into wholesale destruction mode…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 07 Jun 2016

One wouldn't think that the overburdened, heavily CG'ed mis-en-scene of Burton's film couldn't be surpassed in terms of sheer candy-colored…

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Review of In a Lonely Place (1950)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 07 Jun 2016

Achieves an absolutely unrelenting grip because Ray plays so expertly on our associations, turning them inside out and against us…

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Review of The Player (1992)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 07 Jun 2016

Altman knew Hollywood, but The Player casts a much wider net by allowing the movie industry to stand in for the shark-eat-shark nature of modern…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 30 May 2016

A mix of high-concept obviousness and genuine passion for the difficulties endured by those who get chewed up and spit out by the system…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 24 May 2016

Most of the laughs are solid and the underlying tone of the film is pitched in such a way that it doesn't undermine our inherent investment…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 23 May 2016

Saulnier revels in the primal nastiness of what the will to live looks like in the most dire of circumstances while also infusing the film…

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