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Movie Reviews by John Beifuss - Page 21 of 98

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Review of Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

A sexy and often comical road trip that demonstrates how personal agendas and insecurities sabotage and corrupt not just personal but political…

Review of The Sacrament (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

The film has a ticking time-bomb quality that pays off in the accelerating violence of the breathless final act, which is more grim than gory,…

Review of Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

The film was somewhat radically reworked for a TCM special edition; the original is like an old-school monster movie that teases the audience…

Review of Life Itself (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

Ebert once said: 'For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.' This documentary might be Exhibit A in an argument in support…

Review of Lucy (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

Besson's most ambitious realization of his peculiarly exuberant notion of girl power…

Review of Boyhood (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

The effect is uncanny and heartbreaking, yet exhilarating, not depressing…

Review of The Dog (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

Any thought that Al Pacino overacts in 'Dog Day Afternoon' is instantly banished by the screen presence of the gleefully crude and unrepentant…

Review of Obvious Child (2009)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

I left 'Obvious Child' thinking not of Donna, the story's heroine, but of Jenny Slate, an intriguing screen presence who deserves better material…

Review of I Origins (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

What develops inside this Petri dish is a pretentious and fatally self-conscious piece of work -- the most wearying example to date of a new…

Review of Boyhood (1951)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

The effect is uncanny and heartbreaking, yet exhilarating, not depressing…

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

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

Every frame is some kind of digital marvel, yet the most impressive sights are old school: the blunt-instrument fearsomeness of Mickey Rourke's…

Review of Hank and Asha (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

The post-millennium indie film equivalent of an epistolary short story, the movie is not just a video-letter conversation but a calling card…

Review of Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

Transformers have souls, this movie repeatedly tells us, but does Michael Bay…

Review of The Legend of Hell House (1973)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

The last-act revelation is a let-down and even somewhat silly, but this remains a top-tier ghost movie, thanks mostly to director John Hough,…

Review of Deliver Us from Evil (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

Sinister' director Scott Derrickson again delivers the (modest) goods in this old-school street-cop mystery-thriller in 'Exorcist' drag…

Review of Jersey Boys (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Sep 2014

Eastwood jettisons the 'jukebox musical' approach of his source material to transform the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons into…

Review of Earth to Echo (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 07 Aug 2014

Earth to Echo won't wallop young viewers, but I wouldn't be surprised if kids who catch this at the right age are utterly captivated…

Review of 22 Jump Street (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Jun 2014

Begins with a clip of a professor discussing the meaning of yin and yang, and that symbol of apparently opposing but in fact complementary…

Review of The Divorcee (1930)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Jun 2014

A movie about, essentially, the perils of revenge sex (for women, at least)…

Review of A Free Soul (1931)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Jun 2014

Contains what may be the first instance of the 'If it doesn't fit you must acquit' defense: Barrymore wins Gable's freedom by having the accused…

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