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Review of Han Gong-ju (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 25 May 2016

This is not popcorn entertainment, but Chun's work is powerful stuff that puts recent tear-jerking young adult novel adaptations to shame for…

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Review of Coherence (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 25 May 2016

Coherence is a smart, tense genre outing that thoroughly shows up big-budget tent-poles with its superior inventiveness…

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Review of Calvary (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 25 May 2016

The symbolism of Calvary is almost crushing at times. Nonetheless, its exploration of religious conviction is exceptionally mature and thoughtful…

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Review of Snowpiercer (2013)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 25 May 2016

Snowpiercer is so didactic it will give intellectually sophisticated viewers a headache…

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Review of Honeymoon (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 25 May 2016

Honeymoon is a mature film, in which karma packs a real punch…

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Review of Land Ho! (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 25 May 2016

Stephens and Katz basically rely on the immense screen charisma of their two principals, which largely bails them out…

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Review of Canopy (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 23 May 2016

Canopy violates nearly every war movie convention, yet it better represents the realities of combat than most of its forerunners…

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Review of Frank (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 23 May 2016

Anyone who knows working musicians will be turned off by the spectacle of such self-defeating behavior. No professional musician would act like this…

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Review of Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 23 May 2016

Unfortunately, Treasure opened too early in the year for short attention span Academy members, because Rinko Kikuchi seriously merits consideration…

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Review of Canopy (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 23 May 2016

Canopy violates nearly every war movie convention, yet it better represents the realities of combat than most of its forerunners…

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Review of Ragnarok (2013)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 23 May 2016

Sandemose certainly proves that fjords are strikingly cinematic, but he never fully capitalizes on the Ragnarok mythos or the Oseberg backstory…

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Review of Archaeology of a Woman (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 22 May 2016

A lot of good intentions and artistic courage went into Archaeology, but they never come together in a coherent whole…

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Review of Rocks in My Pockets (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 22 May 2016

Baumane's animation is quite striking, often taking viewers down surreal, symbolically resonant rabbit holes, and her message is also empowering…

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Review of The Decent One (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 22 May 2016

It is sort of like watching Hell's production of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, because its correspondents have certainly earned damnation…

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Review of The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 22 May 2016

As director and co-writer, Mross provides a lucid explanation of the bitcoin system and an authoritative history of its formative years…

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Review of A Leading Man (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 22 May 2016

Hollywood takes it in the shins throughout Leading, but to Kung's credit, it never lets anyone off the hook…

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Review of The Scribbler (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 22 May 2016

The Scribbler incorporates elements from several genres (science fiction, horror, dark fantasy) and generates some clever disbelief-suspending…

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Review of Wild Card (2015)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 21 May 2016

Wild Card has a handful of spectacular fights (choreographed by Cory Yuen), sprinkled throughout long stretches of compulsive gambling and…

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Review of Leviathan (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 21 May 2016

Leviathan has the form of a parable, the soul of a Russian tragedy, and the moral outrage of a j'accuse…

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Review of The Last: Naruto the Movie (2014)

By Joe Bendel (106) for Epoch Times (337) on 21 May 2016

For longtime readers and viewers, The Last is more closely akin to the emotional sign-off in MASH than the wimpering final episode of Seinfeld…

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