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Review of Certified Copy (2010)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 23 May 2012

Binoche and Shimell keep us fully engaged with their characters throughout their conversations, and Kiarostami draws us in with his signature…

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Review of Dark Shadows (2012)

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

Nostalgic music and digs at the bad aesthetic choices of a previous era, no matter how well executed, will only get you so far, and at some…

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Review of Monsieur Lazhar (2011)

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

Tender and sincere, frequently striking a fine balance between the dictates of the inspirational teacher genre and a more mundane kind of realism…

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Review of The Avengers (2012)

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

While the film certainly suffers from gigantism, it is a self-inflicted malady, and for fans of the series it is like manna from heaven…

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Review of The Kid with a Bike (2011)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 30 Apr 2012

A complex interweaving of bitter reality and a deeply humane worldview that sees the possibility of redemption in even the cruelest of circumstances…

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Review of Clueless (1995)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 28 Apr 2012

Offers some of the best humor, entertainment, and social insight the teen comedy genre has to offer…

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Review of Blue Like Jazz (2012)

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

Dares to confront its audience, both secular and religious, by honestly dealing with the complexities of religion, politics, and personal identity…

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Review of The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

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

Like a senior thesis about the modern horror genre masquerading as a movie…

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Review of This Happy Breed (1944)

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

Not a particularly deep film, but it gets the details of human interaction and growth just right, providing a moving portrait of one family's…

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Review of Blithe Spirit (1945)

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

While Coward's witty dialogue and pungent take on the mores of the British upper crust can't help but elicit some smiles, as a whole Blithe…

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Review of In Which We Serve (1942)

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

A particularly memorable World War II British propaganda film, having successfully outlived its initial propagandistic value and solidified…

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Review of Chinatown (1974)

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

One of the great masterworks of '70s American cinema and an apex of the decade's obsession with genre revisionism…

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Review of A Night to Remember (1958)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 02 Apr 2012

A film that broke new ground in depicting one of history's worst maritime disasters, interweaving historical reality with a dexterous sense…

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Review of 21 Jump Street (2012)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 23 Mar 2012

By no means a great comedy, but it does demonstrate that playing against the grain can be a good move, especially when the people in charge…

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Review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

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

Unfolds with maximum perplexity, ensuring that we will never, despite being able to grasp the stakes and gravity of individual scenes, be sure…

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Review of John Carter (2012)

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

An awesome folly, a misguided project of genuinely enormous proportions that feels like exactly what it is: an impersonal product of franchise-hungry…

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Review of Friends with Kids (2012)

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

Westfeldt tries with all her might to ensure that the film is socially and romantically edgy by ridiculing anything that might smack of old-fashioned,…

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Review of Immortals (2011)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 14 Mar 2012

An almost overwhelming aesthetic experience in which conventional storytelling and narrative logic frequently take a backseat to pure sensation…

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Review of In Darkness (2011)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 10 Mar 2012

The lengthy sequences in the dark sewers certainly convey the monotonousness of the survivors' ordeal, but they come at the expense of narrative…

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Review of Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 01 Mar 2012

Simultaneously plays by and punctures the expectations of the courtroom thriller…

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