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Review of Gravity (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 08 Oct 2013

Nothing if not a technical tour de force, possibly one of the greatest examples in recent years of how far cinematic technology can take us…

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Review of Prisoners (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 06 Oct 2013

A tense morality play wrapped in the bristling genre trappings of a police procedural, is exhausting in all the best ways-emotionally, intellectually,…

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Review of To Be or Not to Be (1983)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 19 Sep 2013

One of Lubitsch's greatest works and one of the most inventive anti-Nazi films to emerge from Hollywood…

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Review of To Be or Not to Be (1998)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 19 Sep 2013

One of Lubitsch's greatest works and one of the most inventive anti-Nazi films to emerge from Hollywood…

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Review of To Be or Not to Be (1942)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 19 Sep 2013

One of Lubitsch's greatest works and one of the most inventive anti-Nazi films to emerge from Hollywood…

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Review of Riddick (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 17 Sep 2013

Twohy gets back to basics, returning the character to his B-movie roots in a stripped-down tale of competition and survival…

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Review of The Hot Flashes (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 16 Sep 2013

Unlikely to put Susan Seidelman back in the front ranks of Hollywood, even though it is an enjoyable, albeit highly derivative, comedy that…

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Review of Touchy Feely (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 15 Sep 2013

There are some wonderful moments scattered throughout and a fantastically awkward performance by Josh Pais, but otherwise Touchy Feely is something…

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Review of The World's End (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 10 Sep 2013

The first part of the movie is so good--so knowing and funny and raucous and even bittersweet in its depiction of male arrested development--that…

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Review of Passion (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 02 Sep 2013

Generates suspense and tension the old-fashioned way while simultaneously heightening everything to the point of near absurdity…

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Review of Passion (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 02 Sep 2013

Generates suspense and tension the old-fashioned way while simultaneously heightening everything to the point of near absurdity…

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Review of Amour (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 21 Aug 2013

A profoundly humane and deeply challenging depiction of the emotional and physical ravages of old age…

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Review of Elysium (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 16 Aug 2013

The film's allegorical terms are decidedly unstable and arguably compromised by the presence of Damon, a traditional white leading man, as…

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Review of The Muppet Movie (1979)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 14 Aug 2013

While The Muppet Movie is certainly entertaining, the shift to a coherent, linear, feature-length narrative deprives the film the show's brilliantly…

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Review of Babette's Feast (1987)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 10 Aug 2013

A simple film of great feeling and generosity…

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Review of Lord of the Flies (1963)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 07 Aug 2013

The brute simplicity of Golding's dark adventure story is almost perfectly captured in Peter Brook's film adaption…

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Review of Pacific Rim (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 01 Aug 2013

The attention to social detail, as well as the film's visual punch, makes Pacific Rim more than a monsters-on-the-rampage movie--although it…

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Review of Turbo (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 21 Jul 2013

Dutifully and cheerfully follows a well-worn path and rarely if ever deviates from the rising-underdog formula, and while it doesn't break…

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Review of The Lone Ranger (2003)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 16 Jul 2013

Stuck with a character they can't really transform or darken, they instead turn him into a galloping joke in a white hat and black mask, which…

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Review of The Lone Ranger (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 16 Jul 2013

Stuck with a character they can't really transform or darken, they instead turn him into a galloping joke in a white hat and black mask, which…

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