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Review of Evil Dead (2013)

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

You're better off giving Raimi's original another spin…

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Review of Room 237 (2012)

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

A journey down a rabbit hole worth taking, as the film immerses us in alternately fascinating, compelling, absurd, and frightening theories…

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Review of Spring Breakers (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 27 Mar 2013

The subject of the film is the perversion of youth, and its greatest achievement (if one can call it that) is how it somehow manages to pander…

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Review of Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 24 Mar 2013

Plays so much like the original Die Hard, with so many plot points lifted and transcribed into the new setting, that one could play a potentially…

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Review of Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

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

The tonal shifts from unironic romance, to self-conscious grotesquerie, to roaring action don't always flow smoothly, which suggests a film…

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Review of On the Waterfront (1954)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 26 Feb 2013

A watershed moment in cinema history; it remains one of the greatest films of the 1950s…

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Review of A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 24 Feb 2013

Willis appears to be doing little more than going through the motions, and the character is so gutted and generic at this point that virtually…

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Review of Side Effects (2015)

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

A slick, entertaining piece of Hollywood genre work that includes just enough twists and tweaks to make it stand out from the parade of similar…

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Review of Side Effects (2013)

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

A slick, entertaining piece of Hollywood genre work that includes just enough twists and tweaks to make it stand out from the parade of similar…

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Review of Pina (2011)

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

A stark, invigorating reminder that great art never dies with the artist…

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Review of Warm Bodies (2013)

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

Thick with postmodern humor and knowing irony, but it never comes at the expense of R and his gradual shift from zombie to the possibility…

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

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

Tows the line of conventional, feel-good Hollywood rom-com, albeit dressed up in just enough art-house quirk to make it feel like something…

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Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

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

The fact that commentators, pundits, and politicians on both sides of the political spectrum are condemning Zero Dark Thirty is a sure sign…

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Review of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

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

Not a particularly great film, although it is filled with isolated moments of greatness and hints of masterpieces to come…

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Review of Django Unchained (2012)

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

The film's triumph is the manner in which Tarantino re-envisions cinema's selective appropriation of history and makes it entirely his own…

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Review of Arabian Nights (1974)

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

While Arabian Nights has its share of impressive vistas and narrative trickery, its fundamental emotional disconnect renders it inert--a beautiful…

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Review of This Is 40 (2012)

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

Apatow can't relinquish his love of random animal comedy enough to let his dramatic sensibilities really take hold, and as a result the film…

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Review of The Canterbury Tales (1972)

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

The brash, arguably campy manner in which Pasolini transcribes Chaucer's medieval bawdiness to the screen, coupled with the film's various…

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Review of Les Misérables (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 26 Dec 2012

Works emotionally even when it stumbles aesthetically…

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Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 22 Dec 2012

For what it's worth, the first installment of The Hobbit hits all the right notes and delivers what will be expected of it…

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