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Review of The Company You Keep (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 24 Apr 2013

Redford is an adequate director, and he keeps things moving at a moderate pace, passing up exits to more spectacular vistas or hotter issues…

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Review of Pain & Gain (2013)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 24 Apr 2013

In telling a true story about hapless thugs who are the embodiment of Michael Bay fans, the director has made the most fiendishly enjoyable…

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Review of The Big Wedding (2013)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 24 Apr 2013

It’s nearly tragic to see America’s Greatest Living Actor on the guest list for The Big Wedding, the latest limp comedy about seniors behaving…

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Review of Oblivion (2013)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 17 Apr 2013

The questions raised by Oblivion aren’t especially deep, but the movie does answer a puzzler that has troubled humankind for generations…

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Review of Trance (2013)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 11 Apr 2013

The wrinkles between reality and illusion soon become irritating…

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Review of 42 (2013)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 10 Apr 2013

The inspirational movie named for Robinson’s number is too dignified to throw audiences a curveball, let alone a knockdown pitch, but its…

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Review of Beyond the Hills (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 03 Apr 2013

It’s an enigmatic and austere film from a region where political, sexual and religious repression are as stifling as the sooty air…

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Review of G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 29 Mar 2013

As long as Hollywood keeps hitting us over the head with empty spectacles like G.I. Joe: Retaliation, regular Joes will be too numb to fight back…

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Review of Ginger & Rosa (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 28 Mar 2013

Potter has a rich compositional eye, but she wisely trims the fat from the dialogue, which dances around most of the melodrama until an explosive…

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Review of Dinner for Schmucks (2010)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 26 Mar 2013

Its mean-spiritedness, stupidity and squandering of talent is uniquely Hollywood…

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Review of West of Memphis (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 21 Mar 2013

We feel like we're watching an overlong true-crime television episode and not a movie…

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Review of On the Road (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 21 Mar 2013

Notwithstanding the characters’ spiritual camaraderie, Salles’ emphasizes the hard physical labor and loneliness in Sal’s story, including…

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Review of On The Road (2013)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 21 Mar 2013

Notwithstanding the characters’ spiritual camaraderie, Salles’ emphasizes the hard physical labor and loneliness in Sal’s story, including…

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Review of Spring Breakers (2013)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 21 Mar 2013

With a greater emphasis on sex than violence, Spring Breakers is a more enjoyable guilty pleasure than “Natural Born Killers” and just…

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Review of On The Road (2010)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 21 Mar 2013

Notwithstanding the characters’ spiritual camaraderie, Salles’ emphasizes the hard physical labor and loneliness in Sal’s story, including…

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Review of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 14 Mar 2013

It’s too cheesy and predictable to be a real miracle, but by Vegas standards, it’s a winner…

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Review of Lore (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 14 Mar 2013

With a child’s perspective on war, Lore deserves comparisons with “Empire of the Sun” and “Hope and Glory,” and with a feisty female…

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Review of Stoker (2013)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 13 Mar 2013

Like a taxidermied owl, Stoker is lovely to look at, but in the end it’s hard to give a hoot…

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Review of Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 08 Mar 2013

The more suitably antic Robert Downey Jr. and Johnny Depp were considered for the part before Franco wandered into the picture with his stoner grin…

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Review of Emperor (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 07 Mar 2013

This true-ish story adds a romantic subplot to the prosecution of Japanese war criminals by American general Douglas MacArthur, but neither…

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