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Review of The Two Faces of January (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 23 Oct 2014

Amini is perhaps too intent on producing a film whose elegance outweighs its horrors, and as a result The Two Faces of January never fully…

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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 14 Oct 2014

Gets completely under your skin, rattles your sense of what's right and wrong, and generally undercuts any kind of moral pretense we might…

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Review of The Good Lie (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 09 Oct 2014

Quite contrary to traditional Hollywood standards, the film does not approach a story about the Third World through the eyes of a Western protagonist,…

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Review of The Good Lie (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 09 Oct 2014

Quite contrary to traditional Hollywood standards, the film does not approach a story about the Third World through the eyes of a Western protagonist,…

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Review of Believe Me (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 05 Oct 2014

The balancing act they manage in poking fun at evangelical culture…

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Review of Eraserhead (1977)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 24 Sep 2014

A nightmarish spin down an industrial-wasteland rabbit hole that is equal parts surreal head-scratcher and emotionally driven horrorshow…

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Review of The November Man (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 15 Sep 2014

Donaldson punctuates numerous scenes with sub-John Woo physical calisthenics and slow-motion violence that does nothing to enhance the intensity…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 01 Sep 2014

Both rewards and challenges our expectations of a coming-of-age narrative, delivering a portrait of growing up that is both poignant and poetic…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 01 Sep 2014

Both rewards and challenges our expectations of a coming-of-age narrative, delivering a portrait of growing up that is both poignant and poetic…

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Review of The One I Love (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 26 Aug 2014

Turns on a disarming sci-fi twist as a means of digging deeper into the realm of the keenly observed romantic dramedy…

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Review of The Big Chill (1983)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 06 Aug 2014

Even if the film isn't timeless, the soundtrack certainly is…

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Review of Snowpiercer (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 05 Aug 2014

A taut social allegory about class and power cleverly packaged as an exhilarating action thriller…

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Review of Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 29 Jul 2014

It's not that there's less than meets the eye in Planes: Fire & Rescue, but rather that it is exactly what meets the eye: all surface, nothing…

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Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 27 Jul 2014

Treats the material with a respectable sense of philosophical and sociological sensitivity while still maintaining the pulpy pleasures of its…

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Review of Deliver Us from Evil (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 11 Jul 2014

Derrickson successfully breathes life into some of the more exhausted aspects of the horror genre and produces a film that both scares and…

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Review of Maleficent (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 09 Jul 2014

Whenever the film threatens to sink into CGI oblivion or narrative clunkiness, Jolie is there to save the day with her screen-grabbing presence…

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Review of Joe (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 24 Jun 2014

A beautifully, painfully wrought drama about violence and redemption…

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Review of Red River (2011)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 08 Jun 2014

Inaugurated the second, more intriguing half of John Wayne's career, enabling him to be cast in roles that were more than just macho posturing…

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Review of Red River (1948)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 08 Jun 2014

Inaugurated the second, more intriguing half of John Wayne's career, enabling him to be cast in roles that were more than just macho posturing…

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Review of Red River (1988)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 08 Jun 2014

Inaugurated the second, more intriguing half of John Wayne's career, enabling him to be cast in roles that were more than just macho posturing…

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