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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 08 May 2016

Captain America and Iron Man have always had a humorously antagonistic relationship, with the former's red-white-and-blue purity conflicting…

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Review of High-Rise (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 03 May 2016

Part of the problem is that the characters feel like cartoons, but have just enough psychological realism to keep their inexplicable behavior…

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Review of Keanu (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 02 May 2016

Certainly lacks the subversive panache and consistent hilarity of their short-form sketch comedy, but Key and Peele's chemistry is strong enough…

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Review of Criminal (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 01 May 2016

Allows us to experience with giddy vicariousness a brutal psychopath wreaking havoc on bad guys for all the right reasons…

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Review of The Major (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 27 Apr 2016

Suffused with a heavy sense of fatalism, and even though we feel that nothing will turn out well, it remains tremendously engaging until the…

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Review of Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

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

A delight in the way it supplies drama and suspense via the dangers of flying in remote South America with the humor and romance of opposites…

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Review of The Jungle Book (2016)

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

Despite the manufactured world in which it takes place, Favreau is able to sell the drama and the interpersonal (or interanimal) connections…

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Review of The Invitation (2016)

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

A thumb-screw chamber drama with a premise dripping in absolute menace…

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Review of Undertow (2004)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 28 Mar 2016

Its marriage of conventional thriller dynamics and unexpected visual potency marks it as something both utterly unique and reliably familiar…

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Review of Undertow (1949)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 28 Mar 2016

Its marriage of conventional thriller dynamics and unexpected visual potency marks it as something both utterly unique and reliably familiar…

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Review of Undertow (1996)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 28 Mar 2016

Its marriage of conventional thriller dynamics and unexpected visual potency marks it as something both utterly unique and reliably familiar…

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Review of Undertow (1930)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 28 Mar 2016

Its marriage of conventional thriller dynamics and unexpected visual potency marks it as something both utterly unique and reliably familiar…

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Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 27 Mar 2016

Not nearly as bad as some critics have made it out to be, but it nevertheless fails to achieve the kind of pop-mythic grandeur for which it…

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Review of Eddie the Eagle (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 12 Mar 2016

You'd have to be pretty cynical not to feel some tingling of excitement when Eddie soars, even if he lands many, many meters behind the competition…

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Review of Triple 9 (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 09 Mar 2016

If we had a better sense of what was at stake, the characters and their various plights might have taken on more meaning…

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Review of The Witch (2016)

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

A terrifying portrait of how evil operates in the world, both openly and covertly, to undermine our best intentions…

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Review of The Good Dinosaur (2015)

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

It certainly has its charms and is several notches better than a lot of the computer-animated mayhem passed off as children's entertainment…

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Review of The New Land (1972)

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

Troell shows us the human face of the ordeal, balancing tragedy with comedy and intimacy with scope in a way that few filmmakers have accomplished…

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Review of Code 46 (2003)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 16 Feb 2016

A visually striking, but emotionally flat mash-up of romantic drama, film noir, and science fiction that sounds much more interesting than…

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Review of Deadpool (2016)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 16 Feb 2016

However much the raunchy humor and postmodern genre disemboweling works, what I appreciated most about Deadpool is that the stakes were decidedly…

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