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Review of The Way Way Back (2013)

By Jan M (110) on 16 Dec 2013

You will laugh, you will cry, you will most definitely fall in love. Amazing movie…

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Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

By Jan M (110) on 13 Nov 2013

Adele Exarchopoulos's performance is pretty flawless and the dialogue, while I think in scenes could have been cut down, remains mostly witty…

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Review of The Bling Ring (2013)

By Jan M (110) on 27 Sep 2013

The only reason worth finishing this film is to see these shallow, empty individuals with no characteristics beyond appearance caught and thrown…

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Review of Keep the Lights On (2012)

By Jan M (110) on 15 Sep 2013

At first, it seems too cool to be moving. Then, it breaks your heart…

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Review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

By Jan M (110) on 09 Aug 2013

Yes, the ending is somewhat soppy, but before that someone gets rescued from a nuclear blast in a refrigerator - and the sequence has the uncanny…

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Review of Side Effects (2015)

By Jan M (110) on 07 Aug 2013

The side effect of being Steven Soderbergh is: people expect from you. If you want to emulate Hitchcock, write a good script…

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Review of Side Effects (2013)

By Jan M (110) on 07 Aug 2013

The side effect of being Steven Soderbergh is: people expect from you. If you want to emulate Hitchcock, write a good script…

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Review of Nixon (1995)

By Jan M (110) on 24 Jul 2013

A movie that was rejected at its time but proves a magnificent, flawed, complex (and also crass) beast years later - just as Nixon the man…

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Review of Frances Ha (2013)

By Jan M (110) on 18 Jul 2013

I wonder how Diablo Cody feels about this…

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Review of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

By Jan M (110) on 10 Jul 2013

As Big Sean raps: go stupid, go stupid, go stupid…

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Review of Behind the Candelabra (2013)

By Jan M (110) on 08 Jul 2013

Did I just watch Matt Damon and Michael Douglas have sex? OMG, I really could have done without that. Skip this film, it's really overrated…

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Review of The Big Picture (2010)

By Jan M (110) on 19 May 2013

Great lead up, breathtaking scenery of Adriatic coast, terribly lazy ending…

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Review of The Big Picture (2013)

By Jan M (110) on 19 May 2013

Great lead up, breathtaking scenery of Adriatic coast, terribly lazy ending…

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Review of The Big Wedding (2013)

By Jan M (110) on 28 Apr 2013

Editor and writers should be tarred and feathered...or just return my $15 plus gas money…

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Review of Damsels in Distress (2012)

By Jan M (110) on 23 Mar 2013

Even though it is slow, this is more less an okay comedy. Damsels in Distress is whimsical, but filled with originality and honesty…

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Review of Frankenweenie (2012)

By Jan M (110) on 13 Feb 2013

Perhaps not Tim Burton's best or most iconic film, but a sweet, entertaining romp in the strange twists and turns of his brain nonetheless…

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Review of Polisse (2011)

By Jan M (110) on 10 Feb 2013

A lot like a too long episode of Law and Order: SVU. Not extremely entertaining, but the characters are strong and worth watching…

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Review of The Sessions (2012)

By Jan M (110) on 03 Feb 2013

Where nudity and sex has become a major comedic piece in hollywood or a graphic depiction of rape or some gruesome level, along comes the Sessions…

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Review of Hanna (2011)

By Jan M (110) on 26 Jan 2013

Totally underrated 2011 actioner from Joe Wright…

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Review of The Princess Bride (1987)

By Jan M (110) on 23 Jan 2013

Long before Shrek, The Princess Bride did pretty much the same to the fairy tale conventions, but with much more subtlety and charm…

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