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Movie Reviews by John Beifuss - Page 25 of 98

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Review of The Great Beauty (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 10 Mar 2014

The Great Beauty' is certainly striking, but too often what it's striking are poses…

Review of The Selfish Giant (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 10 Mar 2014

It is especially notable for its compassion. It doesn't pass judgment on even its most thoughtless and conniving characters…

Review of Pompeii (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Feb 2014

Why aren't more 3D fireballs hurled at the audience? Anderson picked a weird moment in his career to show restraint…

Review of About Last Night (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Feb 2014

Drops enough kernels of hard truth into the romcom popcorn box to break a tooth or two…

Review of A Fierce Green Fire (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Feb 2014

Not another documentary exposé of a particular disaster or eco-crime but a history of the environmental movement itself, motivated by the…

Review of The Lego Movie (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Feb 2014

On the basis of their three feature films, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are masters of transforming unlikely source material…

Review of RoboCop (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Feb 2014

Padilha protracts Murphy's existential ordeal,so that the revenge plot that motivates the action becomes secondary to Murphy's struggle to…

Review of Vampire Academy (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Feb 2014

Previous teen films from brothers Daniel and Mark Waters had a lot of bite, so it's sad their first collaboration is a toothless horror-adventure-comedy-romance…

Review of In Secret (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Feb 2014

Love Means Breaking All the Rules' is the misleading slogan on one promotional graphic…

Review of The Monuments Men (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 10 Feb 2014

Clooney and Heslov allow no discouraging words into their screenplay; they petrify art with cant, until 'The Monuments Men' become its own monument…

Review of I, Frankenstein (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 31 Jan 2014

The final insult is saved for the end credits: 'Special Thanks to Mary Shelley…

Review of The Legend of Hercules (1996)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Jan 2014

A low point is when Hercules kills the Nemean lion, who seemed to be minding his own business in his forest; not cool, Herc, even if he was…

Review of The Invisible Woman (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Jan 2014

When the Dickens-Ternan relationship becomes physical, Fiennes presents the event as more a redundancy than a revelation…

Review of Devil's Due (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Jan 2014

Distressingly locates evil in ethnicity: A scene in which the wife marvels at the lovely 'whiteness' of her nude husband sleeping among snowy…

Review of The Legend of Hercules (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Jan 2014

A low point is when Hercules kills the Nemean lion, who seemed to be minding his own business in his forest; not cool, Herc, even if he was…

Review of Last Vegas (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Jan 2014

The mild misadventures and late-life epiphanies don't so much suggest a Geritol 'Hangover' as an all-male special episode of 'The Golden Girls…

Review of Ride Along (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Jan 2014

Only fitfully inspired; most of the really funny bits -- a visit to a shooting range, for example -- were succinct enough to fit into the trailer…

Review of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Jan 2014

More sidebar than sequel, this interesting fifth film in the found-footage fright franchise attempts to reboot (re-boo…

Review of 47 Ronin (1994)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 13 Jan 2014

Unusually grim (for the multiplex) and ritualistic, with nice supernatural flourishes and an outcome that will surprise those unfamiliar with…

Review of 47 Ronin (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 13 Jan 2014

Unusually grim (for the multiplex) and ritualistic, with nice supernatural flourishes and an outcome that will surprise those unfamiliar with…

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