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Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 31 Oct 2013

Blue is also one of the season's most emotionally engaging and complicated movies; it is to the credit of everyone involved that, ultimately,…

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Review of 12 Years a Slave (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 31 Oct 2013

There are moments that are less crushing than others, but there is no free-floating hope here, only that which Northup can make…

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Review of Machete Kills (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 09 Oct 2013

Machete kills, U.S. President Rathcock says during, um, Machete Kills. That's what he does. So, no false advertising here, folks…

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Review of Escape from Tomorrow (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 09 Oct 2013

Escape from Tomorrow is a genuinely surprising, extremely uneven, downright experimental little movie that's bound to be buzzy in film and…

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Review of Parkland (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 02 Oct 2013

JFK conspiracy advocates are invited to hold their letters; Parkland isn't really about all that, which is both a strength and a weakness…

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Review of Rush (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 25 Sep 2013

Howard gives an epic, swinging story an appropriately epic, swinging treatment. You will likely race home afterward…

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Review of Enough Said (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 25 Sep 2013

Both Gandolfini and Louis-Dreyfus do strong work, but it's virtually impossible not to look at anything other than Gandolfini when he's on screen…

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Review of Salinger (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 18 Sep 2013

Holden would avert his eyes in mortification at such corniness. So should we…

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Review of I Declare War (2012)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 28 Aug 2013

I Declare War works best not as a Lord of the Flies riff but as a solid look at how close middle-school emotions are to the surface and how…

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Review of Computer Chess (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 21 Aug 2013

Computer Chess is packed with characters both specific to the tournament and familiar to anyone who has ever attended any sort of convention…

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Review of Fruitvale Station (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 24 Jul 2013

Fruitvale Station shows us the last day of a young man, whose life was like a lot of young men's, who was shot in the back by public servants,…

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Review of Pacific Rim (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 10 Jul 2013

It's actually a weird relief to see a summer actioner with the nerve to just say, This is how this fantasy world works, take it or leave it,…

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Review of The Heat (2006)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 26 Jun 2013

When it clicks, when McCarthy is clearly riffing and Bullock floundering in the Judd-Apatow-school-of-comedy style to which we have become…

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Review of The Heat (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 26 Jun 2013

When it clicks, when McCarthy is clearly riffing and Bullock floundering in the Judd-Apatow-school-of-comedy style to which we have become…

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Review of A Band Called Death (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 26 Jun 2013

More than anything else, the movie is about family -- how we support them and they support us, what we sacrifice for them, how they inspire…

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Review of Man of Steel (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 12 Jun 2013

As enjoyable as the action is, the final battle between Zod and Superman is city-smashing disaster porn that makes the final scene in Avengers…

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Review of Stories We Tell (2012)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 05 Jun 2013

What Stories We Tell does so brilliantly is both tell the story and tell about how we tell our stories. The truth may not be out there…

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Review of After Earth (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 29 May 2013

One tries not to get cranky about bad science in sci-fi blockbusters, but this is a staggeringly dumb idea…

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Review of Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 22 May 2013

These are movies about driving cars really fast and destroying them. And, yes, the thing with the tank is awesome…

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Review of Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 15 May 2013

If anything, Into Darkness shoves a Klingon dagger right between hard-core Trekkers shoulder blades…

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