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Review of The Way Back (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for eye WEEKLY (415) on 21 Jan 2011

Just as admirable are the film's unsparing depiction of the hardships caused by terrain and temperature, its palpable sense of physicality…

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Review of Attenberg (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 20 Jan 2011

The film succeeds not only as an idiosyncratic spin on the coming-of-age story but a wider comment on what it means to be fully human and fully…

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Review of Nostalgia for the Light (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for eye WEEKLY (415) on 14 Jan 2011

Guzmán's wise and lovely film maintains a careful balance between matters both macro and micro…

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Review of The Green Hornet (2011)

By Jason Anderson (395) for eye WEEKLY (415) on 12 Jan 2011

What opens as a 21st-century variation on Hudson Hawk (and I mean that as a compliment) soon trades in its gleeful weirdness for a Pineapple…

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Review of Barney's Version (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for eye WEEKLY (415) on 25 Dec 2010

It is only by witnessing Barney's decline that we get a full measure of the man and the film's final scenes attain the degree of pathos they require…

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Review of TRON: Legacy (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for eye WEEKLY (415) on 17 Dec 2010

The computer world has rarely felt cosier…

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Review of Skyline (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 12 Nov 2010

There's a kind of magic that happens when a movie inspires complete strangers to ridicule it to each other on the way out of the theatre…

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Review of Down Terrace (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 11 Nov 2010

A low-budget effort by British director Ben Wheatley, Down Terrace is an enjoyably nasty piece of business about a down-market sort of underworld…

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Review of Tamara Drewe (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for eye WEEKLY (415) on 28 Oct 2010

Though broader than it ought to be at times and overlong on the whole, Frears' movie boasts the requisite high spirits thanks to an energetic…

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Review of I Spit on Your Grave (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 13 Oct 2010

An attempt to trade on its predecessor's reputation without really grappling with the questions it raises, Monroe's version merely seems shallow,…

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Review of It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for eye WEEKLY (415) on 07 Oct 2010

Writer-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck fail to energize their mild-mannered, overly pat material…

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Review of The Flying Scotsman (2006)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 20 Sep 2010

While the world of competitive cycling can be extremely exciting, not every one of its events is captivating…

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Review of The Last Exorcism (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for eye WEEKLY (415) on 26 Aug 2010

The Last Exorcism refuses to conform to expectations by remaining ambiguous about the exact nature of the horror at hand instead of plunging…

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Review of College Road Trip (2008)

By Jason Anderson (395) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 25 Aug 2010

You know a movie has taken a very strange turn when you find yourself eagerly awaiting the next appearance by Donny Osmond…

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Review of Lottery Ticket (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 18 Aug 2010

A formulaic comedy that's enlivened by the high spirits of its supporting players…

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Review of Survival of the Dead (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 18 Aug 2010

What we've got here is a just a B-movie western with buckets of gore, which might be fine coming from a Romero wannabe but not from the genuine…

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Review of Animal Kingdom (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 11 Aug 2010

The suggestion that the authorities may comprise a clan that's as ruthless and amoral as the Browns also adds a pleasingly cynical edge that's…

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Review of Countdown to Zero (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for eye WEEKLY (415) on 29 Jul 2010

If your '80s revival can include leg warmers and the cassette tape, then mine can include nuclear anxiety…

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Review of Ramona and Beezus (2010)

By Jason Anderson (395) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 22 Jul 2010

This is a lively affair, largely thanks to the sweet and snappy screenplay by Laurie Craig and Nick Pustay and to the appealing performances…

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Review of Sweetgrass (2009)

By Jason Anderson (395) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 21 Jul 2010

If there's anything we can learn from the creatures here, it's that any day in which you don't get stripped of your coat or eaten by a bear…

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