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Review of West of Memphis (2012)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 13 Mar 2013

More a recap and appendix to the Paradise Lost trilogy…

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Review of Stoker (2013)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 13 Mar 2013

Stoker may drip with juicy primal urges, suspense and demented behavior, but it offers very little logic or substance to soak up…

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Review of Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 08 Mar 2013

Oz remains a calculated studio endeavor, filled with awkward shifts between simple-minded humor, gooey sentimentality, lavish effect sequences…

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Review of Lore (2012)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 06 Mar 2013

Can we spare some sympathy or hope for the children of villains, even if they too show signs of their parents' evil? Lore provides no easy answers…

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Review of The Sweeney (2012)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 01 Mar 2013

If you watched any of the dozens of gritty BBC crime dramas that have reached our shores over the last decade, The Sweeney looks and feels…

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Review of Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 01 Mar 2013

A movie made solely to land a healthy weekend box office then move on to the global market for a return on its investment…

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Review of Barbara (2012)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 21 Feb 2013

Hoss' outstanding performance is a deep well of subtle yet unmistakable motives and reactions…

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Review of A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 15 Feb 2013

Loud, insultingly low-concept, and irony-free... today may be the perfect day to take Die Hard out back and put a bullet in its head…

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Review of Beautiful Creatures (2013)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 14 Feb 2013

Viola Davis suffers the greatest indignity, literally playing a magic Negro who holds down two jobs; one as a housekeeper and the other as…

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Review of Side Effects (2013)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 07 Feb 2013

Not content to simply present a twisty thriller, Soderbergh pulls off a series of dramatic sleights of hand, undermining genre expectations…

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Review of Mama (2013)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 28 Jan 2013

As each contrivance piles it becomes clear that the filmmakers are just padding an otherwise sporadic and unmotivated series of jolts…

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Review of Holy Motors (2012)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 28 Jan 2013

Welcome to the latest in WTF cinema, the kind of movie that critics love, general audiences loathe and cinephiles puzzle over…

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Review of The Impossible (2012)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 15 Jan 2013

Bayona has the uncanny ability to put viewers in the moment, allowing them to vividly experience the family's struggles…

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Review of Gangster Squad (2013)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 11 Jan 2013

Gangster Squad, I have seen The Untouchables and you, sir, are no Untouchables. But you may be the most violent episode of Dragnet ever…

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Review of Not Fade Away (2012)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 04 Jan 2013

God save us from boomer nostalgia and its endless idealization of the '60s…

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Review of The Guilt Trip (2012)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 27 Dec 2012

The jokes are few and far between, and the scenes inside the car lack the imagination and spontaneity a more comically attuned director would…

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Review of Jack Reacher (2012)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 21 Dec 2012

Predictable plot twists and chase scenes ensue in a stylish but otherwise old-school thriller…

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Review of Django Unchained (2012)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 19 Dec 2012

Django is infectiously rousing and exuberantly subversive…

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Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 14 Dec 2012

buried beneath the bloated 2-hour and 46-minute run time of The Hobbit is as an entertaining two-hour movie…

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Review of The House I Live In (2012)

By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 03 Dec 2012

Jarecki makes clear that all our efforts and investments in fighting the War on Drugs haven't yielded any real success, only ruined lives,…

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