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Review of The Lone Ranger (1956)

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 Shoah (1985)

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

A magnificently disquieting experience--a harrowing descent into the depths of humanity's potential for unmitigated brutality, cruelty, and evil…

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Review of Despicable Me 2 (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 09 Jul 2013

Everything that is good about it-including those wonderfully nattering minions who have even more screen time and play a bigger role in the…

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Review of Stoker (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 04 Jul 2013

A hothouse psychodrama rendered in a deliberately cool style that gives it the feel of a dollhouse chamber play conceived in a mental institution…

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Review of Monsters University (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 04 Jul 2013

The inventive world-making and comic inversion of expectations regarding the relationship between humans and monsters is dulled because it…

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Review of World War Z (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 30 Jun 2013

The film's best thrills almost always rely on the terror of space rapidly collapsing, leaving you no place else to run-the very essence of…

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Review of Man of Steel (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 18 Jun 2013

While expertly rendered by the film's army of special effects artists, the violence feels simultaneously bloated and empty, yet another exercise…

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Review of Things to Come (1936)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 12 Jun 2013

A disappointing lesson learned about the limitations of amazing imagery bereft of interesting characters and narrative…

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Review of Safety Last! (1923)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 11 Jun 2013

The climb has both comic and dramatic weight because it is both a thrilling exercise in physical humor and a thematically rich evocation of…

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Review of The Purge (2013)

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

Doesn't spend enough time with the characters to give us much insight beyond the bare necessities, so their eventual devolution into primordial…

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Review of Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

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

Stretches into new genre territory while still maintaining the basic expectations of big muscles, fast cars, and loud guns…

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Review of Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 03 Jun 2013

So enjoyable that it becomes easy to forget that virtually everything in the film is a riff or spin on something we (including only casual…

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Review of Shadow Dancer (2012)

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

A potent, ultimately disheartening slow-burn drama…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

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

Too much for its own good, drowning its best intentions in stylistic overkill…

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Review of Jubal (1956)

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

An intense drama whose Shakespearean tensions are embodied in the enormity of the Grand Tetons beneath which it unfolds…

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Review of Iron Man 3 (2013)

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

What it does it does quite well, providing a satisfying sense of escapism while reminding us that such pleasures don't have to be saturated…

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Review of Mud (2013)

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

A film that demands a certain patience, which it rewards with various emotional payoffs that aren't ever quite what you expect…

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Review of Oblivion (2013)

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

Really no more derivative a science fiction thriller than most these days, it just has the unfortunate tendency of seeming to be more obvious about it…

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Review of To the Wonder (2013)

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

An experiment in fragmented, impressionistic storytelling that keeps its characters just a bit too far out of reach, their symbolic qualities…

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Review of Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 09 Apr 2013

A pitch-black, arguably bitter comedy that wasn't so much a departure for Chaplin (he had, after all, lampooned Hitler in his previous film)…

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