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Review of Following (1999)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 12 Dec 2012

A harbinger of things to come, an exercise in the kind of temporal gymnastics, sleight-of-hand shifts in perspective, and rigorous insights…

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Review of The Sessions (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 11 Dec 2012

The laughs are always gentle, which is descriptive of the film as a whole, as it strives to reconnect cinematic sex with shared humanity…

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Review of Life of Pi (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 07 Dec 2012

The effect is constantly dazzling and even breathtaking, and had Lee managed to truly merge the spiritual and the visceral, it might very well…

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Review of Lincoln (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 20 Nov 2012

The weight of history is certainly present in every scene, but so are the undeniable correlations between past and present that make it feel…

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Review of Arbitrage (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 15 Nov 2012

Whether there is even the possibility of redemption at the end is part of what makes the film so gripping…

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Review of Skyfall (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 15 Nov 2012

A crackerjack Bond film that cannily mixes the harder, more severe edges of the previous Craig films with a sly sense of humor…

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Review of Flight (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 13 Nov 2012

A story about the question of redemption--not just whether the protagonist-in-crisis can be redeemed, but whether we want him to be redeemed,…

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Review of Cloud Atlas (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 12 Nov 2012

The very size of the film and its narrative ambitions have a way of keeping us just at arm's length, as if we are meant to appreciate its vastness…

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Review of Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 24 Oct 2012

At its best plays as a powerful, deeply human reminder of how desperate we can be for connection, however compromised it may be…

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Review of Sinister (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 18 Oct 2012

Derrickson is a sharp stylist who knows how to meld dreadful imagery with actual ideas that make his horror films more than just exercises…

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Review of Argo (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 17 Oct 2012

A crackerjack based-on-a-true story thriller that finally allows actor/director Ben Affleck to demonstrate his behind-the-camera muscles in…

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Review of Frankenweenie (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 16 Oct 2012

An almost perfect balance of macabre humor, charming sincerity, and a love of all things cinematic, Frankenweenie is Tim Burton's best film in years…

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Review of Looper (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 08 Oct 2012

Takes us far beyond the film's high-concept premise into the kind of emotional terrain that too often escapes even the best genre filmmakers…

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Review of Hotel Transylvania (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 07 Oct 2012

So frenzied and hyped in its desire to please and entertain that it starts to feel exhausting, rather than exhilarating-a monster mash that…

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Review of Pet Sematary (1989)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 04 Oct 2012

A flawed, but still bracingly horrific film of ideas, one that maintains with substantial impact the novel's tragic themes about death and…

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Review of Rosetta (1999)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 03 Oct 2012

A small miracle of a film, one that accomplishes so much with seemingly so little and feels all of a piece, not a moment wasted or misused…

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Review of End of Watch (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 20 Sep 2012

A potentially powerful story about the lethal daily grind of patrolling South Central Los Angeles that is wrecked by misguided aesthetics…

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Review of Lawless (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 19 Sep 2012

It offers an anti-romanticized history in which the violence is more brutal, the characters more deplorable, and the vengeance downright Biblical…

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Review of Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 11 Sep 2012

Long on blood and thunder and relatively short on emotional engagement…

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Review of The Words (2009)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 09 Sep 2012

Ambitious, but emotionally distanced cinematic appreciation of the mysterious nature of literary art…

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