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Review of Dream House (2011)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 19 Apr 2012

Dream House is clearly something of a wreck, yet watching the film provides glimpses of the better film the project might have been…

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Review of Battleship (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 12 Apr 2012

Cringe at unfeasibly wooden acting and hoot at unspeakably bad dialogue, not all of which is unintentionally funny…

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Review of This Must Be the Place (2011)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 04 Apr 2012

Funnier on screen than he's been in any part since permanently stoned surfer dude Jeff Spicoli in 1982's Fast Times at Ridegmont High, Penn…

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Review of Another Earth (2011)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 01 Apr 2012

Another Earth doesn't fully come off - the slow pace stops it achieving escape velocity - but the intriguing ideas and Marling's touching performance…

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Review of Mirror Mirror (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 30 Mar 2012

Who's the fairest of them all,' is a cruel question to pose to a Hollywood beauty in her forties facing competition from ever-younger starlets,…

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Review of Wild Bill (2011)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 29 Mar 2012

Dexter Fletcher doesn't overplay the cowboy angle…

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Review of Act of Valor (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 29 Mar 2012

A movie so hawkish and gung-ho that it makes John Wayne's The Green Berets look unpatriotic and Top Gun seem positively pinko…

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Review of StreetDance 2 (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 29 Mar 2012

The story is even flimsier than before, but the dancing is even more electrifying…

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Review of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 27 Mar 2012

Those old salts at Aardman Studios have come up with a rollicking comedy adventure that more than lives up to the company's tradition of teeming…

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Review of We Bought a Zoo (2011)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 16 Mar 2012

While the creatures may be dangerous, Jerry Maguire director Cameron Crowe definitely plays things safe…

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Review of 21 Jump Street (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 16 Mar 2012

A rude and raucous action comedy spoof, which turns the high-minded, message-laden original series on its head in order to poke fun at everything…

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Review of Contraband (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 15 Mar 2012

With the action of Icelandic heist thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam relocated to New Orleans and Panama for Hollywood remake Contraband, the 'reformed…

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Review of Monte Carlo (2011)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 12 Mar 2012

It's all frothy and silly, but Selena Gomez and her co-stars are sweet and appealing and are sure to win over the film's target audience…

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Review of The Raven (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 08 Mar 2012

It's a fiendishly clever idea: turn Edgar Allan Poe into the hero of a gothic thriller that weaves together aspects of his rackety life and…

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Review of Immortals (2011)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 08 Mar 2012

Costume designer Eiko Ishioka drapes the gods in dinky gold lamé outfits and outlandish headgear - Daniel Sharman's Aires sports a helmet…

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Review of The Decoy Bride (2011)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 08 Mar 2012

Writer Sally Phillips throws in the odd sharp line (love-shy Katie describes herself as 'a man-vegan') but the clumsily contrived plot and…

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Review of This Means War (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 05 Mar 2012

This Means War gleefully stirs together the spy caper and rom-com genres, and with Charlie's Angel director McG at the helm the resulting mash-up…

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Review of Safe House (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 05 Mar 2012

A frenetic action thriller whose chases, gunplay and hand-to-hand combat flash by in such a furious blur that the viewer barely has time to…

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Review of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 05 Mar 2012

What seemed a gimmicky device on the page feels even more awkwardly whimsical and implausible on screen…

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Review of Project X (2012)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 05 Mar 2012

Project X takes a standard parental nightmare and blows it up to such an outrageous, ruinous, cataclysmic degree that any parent who catches…

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