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Review of Manglehorn (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 07 Jul 2015

Clearly develops an interesting character in Manglehorn, but never seems entirely sure what to do with him…

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Review of The Face of an Angel (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 24 Jun 2015

Built on the intriguing idea of using a thinly fictionalized version of the notorious Amanda Knox trial to explore how real-life events are…

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Review of The Confession (1970)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 21 Jun 2015

Costa-Gavras dramatizes Gérard's ordeal and makes us feel his pain, his exhaustion, but most of all the terrible loss of his sense of self…

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Review of Jurassic World (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 14 Jun 2015

Not so much another bloated sequel as it is the fruition of dreams deferred in the previous films…

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Review of San Andreas (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 09 Jun 2015

Its disaster spectacle and sense of moral reckoning is hung on exactly the same narrative backbone as Emmerich's world-shattering 2012…

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Review of Tomorrowland (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 09 Jun 2015

Hardly a perfect film, but it is a breath of fresh air amidst all the thoughtless destruction that seems to have become the de facto subject…

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Review of The Rose (1979)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 02 Jun 2015

Were it not a fictional feature film, The Rose might very well be considered one of the best concert documentaries of the 1970s…

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Review of Poltergeist (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 26 May 2015

Puts plenty of new spins on the familiar beats of the story, but their relevance must have wound up somewhere on the cutting room floor…

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Review of Maggie (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 17 May 2015

Hobson's admirable restraint behind the camera and the fine performances by all involved give the material its sense of emotional depth…

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Review of Adult Beginners (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 12 May 2015

Has all the trappings of a generic indie coming-home heart-warmer, but one of the best things I can say about it is that it manages to sidestep…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 11 May 2015

An improvement over the first Avengers; everything feels smoother, the pacing is a bit better, and the overall plot is more intriguing…

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Review of Ex Machina (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 05 May 2015

Ex Machina works because it gradually shifts the terms of the narrartive and thematic structure, forcing us to reevaluate what we thought we…

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Review of Selma (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 05 May 2015

The breadth of the film's scope is impressive, as it manages to sketch in the enormity and diversity of the movement without being spread too thin…

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Review of Beyond the Reach (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 29 Apr 2015

A stylish, narratively stripped-down thriller that works quite well, right up until it stumbles and falls into a terrible ending that feels…

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Review of Ganga (1960)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 21 Apr 2015

A sumptuous visual feast that foregoes narrative drive for the simple beauties of lived existence on the banks of the Ganges River…

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Review of Cinderella (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 14 Apr 2015

Takes the all-too-familiar beats of the story and plumbs them for deeper levels of feeling and physicality, merging the sensual and the chaste…

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Review of Cinderella (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 14 Apr 2015

Takes the all-too-familiar beats of the story and plumbs them for deeper levels of feeling and physicality, merging the sensual and the chaste…

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Review of Into the Woods (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 07 Apr 2015

Some of the violence and, in particular, more explicitly sexualized aspects of the original production have been eliminated or softened, although…

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Review of It Follows (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 31 Mar 2015

Even though the setup creates little more than variations on the same basic threat, the film maintains a rigorous tension that is as unrelenting…

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Review of Run All Night (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 30 Mar 2015

A generally solid piece of entertaining, but hardly earth-shattering, genre work that makes good use of Neeson's brusque screen presence…

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