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Movie Reviews by John Beifuss - Page 29 of 98

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Review of Valentine Road (2013)

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

One of the most powerful films you'll see this year or maybe any year…

Review of Any Day Now (2012)

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

If the movie preaches to the converted, in the manner of period films about racial civil rights, it never becomes soapy or pious, thanks in…

Review of You're Next (2013)

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

Mumblecore may be dead but mumblegore is alive and, well, pretty grisly, judging from this tongue-in-cheek, blender-in-head home-invasion horror…

Review of G.B.F. (2014)

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

A cheerful, colorful sitcom of a high-school comedy in which a trio of sassy 'mean girls' vie for the attentions of their first 'out' classmate,…

Review of Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)

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

An outlaw saga of undying love distilled to its emotional essence, as if it were something to be inhaled or applied to the skin, to work at…

Review of Hands of a Stranger (1962)

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

Body, mind, soul -- can one exist without the others? Is the 'self' determined by one or a combination of all three…

Review of Continental (2013)

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

Entertaining but overlong and undercooked…

Review of Closed Circuit (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 29 Aug 2013

I wonder if the constant repetition in an entertainment context of the idea that government is corrupt and deceitful inspires weariness, resignation…

Review of The Grandmaster (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 29 Aug 2013

More impressive than its flurry of fists is its sleight of hand, the misdirection that perhaps conceals for some the truth that this is not…

Review of In the House (2012)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 25 Aug 2013

The convoluted yet familiar narrative games become somewhat tiresome…

Review of Epic (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 25 Aug 2013

Boasts sometimes photorealistic animation and some cool concepts (the heroic 'Leafmen' ride hummingbirds like horses), but it's grounded by…

Review of The World's End (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 25 Aug 2013

Says the Rosamund Pike character: 'You come back (home), and everything is the same, but different.' The science-fiction element of the story,…

Review of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 25 Aug 2013

The most memorable scene doesn't showcase Confederate zombies or the reawakened Kronos but 'Firefly' star Nathan Fillion as Hermes, god of…

Review of Blue Jasmine (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 25 Aug 2013

Jasmine may no longer be a trophy wife, but she remains a sort of trophy: Something on display, cold and golden, for us to admire…

Review of Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 25 Aug 2013

Offers a convenient punching bag for critics who want to equate the youth violence in movies with its manifestations offscreen, even if teenagers…

Review of The Spectacular Now (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 25 Aug 2013

Unfortunately, an odd paradox emerges…

Review of The Butler (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 15 Aug 2013

It's another of the film's ironies that while Gaines owes his success to an ability to make a room feel empty, Whitaker, even at his most still…

Review of The Conjuring (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 15 Aug 2013

America's stealth auteur, James Wan, directs unpretentious, inexpensive, stylistically consistent horror movies that spook audiences and scare…

Review of Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 15 Aug 2013

A movie that may whisper dark secrets into your ears at night, when you're trying to forget it…

Review of 2 Guns (2013)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 15 Aug 2013

Director Baltasar Kormakur keeps the pace and patter loose and lively; the result is almost refreshing -- a run through a sprinkler on a summer…

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