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Movie Reviews by John Beifuss - Page 26 of 98

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Review of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

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

The movie works the borderland that connects the satirical and the surreal; the humor is scattershot but sometimes laugh-out-loud hilarious…

Review of Herø (2001)

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

Gives moviegoers much to think about and discuss, on levels both sophomoric and profound…

Review of Grudge Match (2013)

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

There's a paucity of punch but plenty of paunch in this Rocky-vs.-Raging Bull comedy-drama…

Review of Her (2013)

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

Gives moviegoers much to think about and discuss, on levels both sophomoric and profound…

Review of Just Before Dawn (1981)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 06 Jan 2014

The film's lush locations -- the mossy forest with its prehistoric ferns, huge trees, rocky cliffs and misty waterfalls -- add not just production…

Review of The Beast with Five Fingers (1947)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 06 Jan 2014

As it torments Lorre, the hand becomes a manifestation of the metaphorical notion of a hand tugging us toward our destiny or reaching from…

Review of Ninja III: The Domination (1984)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 06 Jan 2014

When an aerobics instructor and her new police detective boyfriend make the beast with two backs, you can't help but notice that his is disturbingly…

Review of Night of the Comet (1984)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 06 Jan 2014

When most of the people of the Earth are dehydrated into pink dust, will girls still just want to have fun…

Review of Tank Girl (1995)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 06 Jan 2014

The 'counterculture zeitgeist' vibe seems rather silly, more Sherwood Schwartz than Riot Grrrl, and not in a good way…

Review of Nebraska (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 06 Jan 2014

The staging is mostly spot-on, especially when the father and son visit some cousins who can barely muster a moment's attention for their long-lost…

Review of Tormented (1960)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 06 Jan 2014

She's dead,' muses Richard Carlson. 'She doesn't exist…

Review of Corruption (1968)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Dec 2013

The concept of face -- as a noun, as a verb, as the mask that hides and exposes our emotions, as the anchor to our definition of self -- is…

Review of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 27 Dec 2013

Taxi Driver' diagnosed American sickness as interior and hellish, while 'Wolf' suggests the sickness has spread outward until the culture…

Review of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 27 Dec 2013

Misses the opportunity to use art and imagination to bring insight to a life history that otherwise might be better served with a straight…

Review of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 20 Dec 2013

Hang me, oh hang me,' warbles Llewyn Davis at the start of this movie filled with gallows humor; its mystical looping structure reminded me…

Review of American Hustle (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 19 Dec 2013

Russell's films find their heroes among the men and women who respond with grace and conscience to what the Jennifer Lawrence character calls…

Review of Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 19 Dec 2013

Travers' legitimate concerns are presented as the killjoy grinching of a dried-up prig who just needs a good you-know-what, with Uncle Walt…

Review of The Beast Within (1982)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 16 Dec 2013

A movie that suggests that not just the chickens but the locust-monsters inevitably will come home to roost in a postbellum South -- a 'Heart…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 16 Dec 2013

One begins to feel that the addition of just one more special effect, one more grimacing Orc face or one more digital feat of derring-do might…

Review of Cutie and the Boxer (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 16 Dec 2013

The viewer begins to wonder if this is a love story or a hate story -- or if there's a difference…

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John Beifuss has written reviews for:

Chicago Sun-Times (7,580)
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