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Movie Reviews by John Beifuss - Page 28 of 98

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Review of Generation Iron (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 08 Nov 2013

Well-crafted, sympathetic and apparently fairly honest, but not as novel as it would have been in the pre-reality TV era, when the home lives…

Review of Gorgo (1961)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 26 Oct 2013

Women are absent from 'Gorgo' because the title beast proves to be the biggest mother of them all, literally…

Review of Gravity (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 26 Oct 2013

Keeps the tension at white-knuckle levels, evoking the paradoxically claustrophobic emptiness of space as the astronaut faces dangers intimate…

Review of Carrie (2002)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 26 Oct 2013

A purposeful revamp of Stephen King's prescient novel, updated for an era of cyberbullying, home schooling, high-school mass murder and America's…

Review of Carrie (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 26 Oct 2013

A purposeful revamp of Stephen King's prescient novel, updated for an era of cyberbullying, home schooling, high-school mass murder and America's…

Review of The Devil Bat (1940)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 23 Oct 2013

In many of his movies, Bela Lugosi has bats in his belfry…

Review of Hands of the Ripper (1971)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 23 Oct 2013

Anna's savage acts of violence are provoked by a flash of light and a kiss: Symbols of the most desirable of gifts -- enlightenment and affection…

Review of The Act of Killing (2012)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Oct 2013

Extraordinarily original, psychologically acute and profoundly disturbing…

Review of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Oct 2013

The production design is so imaginative and amusing that it makes not only most live-action fantasy films but most computer-animated features…

Review of Birth of the Living Dead (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Oct 2013

The movie appreciates that 'Night of the Living Dead' is the Bo Diddley beat of horror -- the iteration that launched a million copycats…

Review of Baggage Claim (2006)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Oct 2013

If the dating process depicted here is humiliating for the character of Montana Moore, it's liberating for Paula Patton: The actress reveals…

Review of Inequality for All (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Oct 2013

Lacks the alarmist self-importance of 'An Inconvenient Truth,' even if the subject it investigates seems as dangerous as climate change to…

Review of Enough Said (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Oct 2013

Just the type of movie fans have come to expect from writer-director Nicole Holofcener, who emerges every few years from the economic security…

Review of Baggage Claim (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Oct 2013

If the dating process depicted here is humiliating for the character of Montana Moore, it's liberating for Paula Patton: The actress reveals…

Review of Captain Phillips (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Oct 2013

The situation is emblematic of the inequality that was the impetus for the pirates' crimes…

Review of The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Oct 2013

Even more welcome than its unusual story content is its humanistic impulse: It comes from a place of respect for its characters and belief…

Review of Rush (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Oct 2013

Contains plenty of hairpin curves, but its most welcome twist is the way it reverses expectations in its presentations of the rival drivers,…

Review of Southwest (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Sep 2013

Clarice's life may be no longer than that of a fruit fly, but its brevity, Nunes suggests (not through words but through the emotional and…

Review of Austenland (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Sep 2013

Surely any real aficionado of Jane Austen would reject the film's notion that the author's literary masterworks are essentially wish-fulfillment…

Review of The Hunt (2013)

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

Credibly generates suspense and maintains interest, even if one wonders why the filmmakers felt compelled to pursue this particular subject…

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