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Review of New York, I Love You (2008)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 09 Apr 2012

Neither a comprehensive guide nor consistently good, but because the theme is romance, most of these small bites of the Big Apple are easy to digest…

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Review of Chico & Rita (2010)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 05 Apr 2012

When a place and its people are this stylish, we can't help but be drawn to them…

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Review of American Reunion (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 04 Apr 2012

There's some laughing gas left in the cupboard, but this series may require an infusion of new blood to last until American Funeral…

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Review of Coriolanus (2011)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 29 Mar 2012

That action is bloody, but Fiennes' choices as director are unassailably apt and artful. Coriolanus is a triumph…

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Review of I Kissed a Vampire (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 29 Mar 2012

In this flick, the dark side is as bright as a cruise-ship showroom, where the singing and dancing would fit nicely, while the jokes are as…

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Review of Wrath of the Titans (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 28 Mar 2012

Considerably better looking than its predecessor, but it's spewing the same old gibberish…

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Review of Addiction Incorporated (2011)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 23 Mar 2012

While it's satisfying to see fat cats tamed by science and an enraged public, the movie misses the opportunity to sustain the pressure…

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Review of The Hunger Games (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 22 Mar 2012

The Hunger Games is dressed as a dark satire of soulless entertainment, but like Katniss' adversaries in the PG-13 hunting scenes, it doesn't…

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Review of W.E. (2011)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 16 Mar 2012

It's hard to hate a movie that escorts us to such lovely locales, but instead of marking the territory as her own, Madonna has directed a potentially…

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Review of Being Flynn (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 16 Mar 2012

He might be guilty of showboating, but De Niro's knockout performance is a declaration that the star of Raging Bull isn't ready to hang up his gloves…

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Review of Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 16 Mar 2012

A high-wire act that could crash if the actors were out of sync, but under this big top, the never-better Segel keeps everyone aloft…

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Review of Crazy Horse (2011)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 16 Mar 2012

Wiseman is a still-prolific luminary of what has been dubbed direct cinema, a documentary style in which the director intrudes as little as…

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Review of My One and Only (2009)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 15 Mar 2012

Despite the title, My One and Only is irritatingly repetitive…

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Review of 21 Jump Street (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 15 Mar 2012

He's not in Mark Wahlberg's league, and 21 Jump Street isn't quite as funny as The Other Guys, but by lampooning himself here, Tatum has bought…

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Review of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 13 Mar 2012

The kiddie audience will laugh a few times, but it would take an electron microscope to find an original idea or joke in this entire cartoonish movie…

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Review of We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 09 Mar 2012

Refusing to hold our hands, director Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Callar) pushes far beyond the boundaries of topical drama into the realm of the surreal…

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Review of Declaration of War (2011)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 09 Mar 2012

The tonal shifts, the Amelie-style voiceover and the punk-retro soundtrack may jar some viewers who expect uninterrupted violins, but Declaration…

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Review of Friends with Kids (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 08 Mar 2012

Like an acquaintance couple's baby pictures, Friends With Kids induces coos but isn't as cute as they think…

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Review of Thin Ice (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 02 Mar 2012

Thin Ice resides just slightly south of Fargo…

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Review of Act of Valor (2012)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 23 Feb 2012

Act of Valor is a competently directed action movie, but forcing the audience to wear such narrow goggles is a dereliction of duty…

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