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Review of If I Stay (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 20 Aug 2014

The settings and supporting roles suggest that If I Stay started out as someone’s passion project, but the final product only requires its…

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Review of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 20 Aug 2014

Alba is a showstopper in a fringed cowgirl outfit. But nine years wiser, we know that pretty things aren’t always worth killing for…

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Review of Calvary (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 13 Aug 2014

Gleeson is great as the troubled, conscientious priest, but until an abruptly shocking finale, his fatalism turns the ticking clock into a…

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Review of Land Ho! (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 13 Aug 2014

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Review of Rich Hill (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 06 Aug 2014

Co-directors Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos let the painful stories emerge naturally, without prodding questions or talking-head…

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Review of Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 06 Aug 2014

Largely thanks to the intoxicating scenery and the gorgeous natural-light cinematography, Magic in the Moonlight does weave its a spell, resurrecting…

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Review of The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 06 Aug 2014

Although the outcome is as predetermined as a prix-fixe menu, the storytelling is as smooth as goose-liver pate through a pastry nozzle…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 30 Jul 2014

Surrender, earthlings. It’s the Guardians’ world and you’ll be happy to live in it…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 30 Jul 2014

The film would be incalculably different if the lead role had been divided between two or three young actors for a conventional shoot…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 30 Jul 2014

The film would be incalculably different if the lead role had been divided between two or three young actors for a conventional shoot…

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Review of The Killer Inside Me (2010)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 26 Jul 2014

Like black coffee that's flung in our face, The Killer Inside Me silences the question of whether it's good or bad. But for darn sure, it's strong…

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Review of Lucy (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 23 Jul 2014

Although Besson, the director of “La Femme Nikita” and the producer of “Taken,” indulges in some operatic violence, the film is more…

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Review of And So It Goes (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 23 Jul 2014

If cranking out this kind of mediocre, head-scratching blarney is the only option available to Hollywood veterans like Reiner, we have some…

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Review of I Origins (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 23 Jul 2014

A film that aims for the stars and may have found one here on earth…

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Review of Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 16 Jul 2014

Without the kindling of character development, Planes: Fire and Rescue is no smoldering success, but if Disney’s flight plan is to share…

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Review of Wish I Was Here (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 16 Jul 2014

Mainstream audiences will note that Hudson has never been better and that the tearjerking taps into something universal…

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Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 09 Jul 2014

In one of the most wickedly funny scenes in sci-fi history, Koba uses monkeyshines to bamboozle some gun-toting yahoos and scuttle the peace treaty…

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Review of Life Itself (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 09 Jul 2014

Directed by Steve James, whose “Hoop Dreams” Ebert hailed as the best film of the 1990s, it’s the kind of documentary the dying man wanted…

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Review of The Last Song (2010)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 08 Jul 2014

Sadly, The Last Song is badly out of tune with real filmmaking…

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Review of Begin Again (2014)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 01 Jul 2014

Doggedly indie but unpretentious, Begin Again is one of the best movies I’ve seen about the music industry and the ways it changes people…

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