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Movie Reviews by John Beifuss - Page 3 of 98

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Review of Personal Shopper (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 02 May 2017

A modern-dress ghost story that somehow lacks the mystery and sense of the uncanny that made the ostensibly less supernatural previous Assayas/Stewart…

Review of The Lost City of Z (2017)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 02 May 2017

It has definite integrity, a painterly beauty and a cumulative emotional power, but it misses the madness of Herzog, the poetry of Malick and…

Review of The Belko Experiment (2017)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Apr 2017

The bloodbath of corporate downsizing within a cutthroat capitalist marketplace is imagined as a literal massacre in the latest thriller from…

Review of Song to Song (2017)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 13 Apr 2017

After three films, the auteur's habit of employing the most attractive of movie stars as leads while 'real' people and members of ethnic groups…

Review of Julieta (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Mar 2017

Designed, acted and composed with characteristically admirable intention and intelligence, but it doesn't aspire to the pitch of delirium that…

Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 21 Mar 2017

Jettisons the timeless beauty-and-the-beast tragedy of the 1933 masterpiece for a borrowed Vietnam allegory…

Review of Get Out (2017)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 15 Mar 2017

Its box office success is a sign that America 2017 -- a place where #TheResistance is a trending Twitter topic -- desperately needed this distillation…

Review of Logan (2017)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 Mar 2017

The movie is exhilaratingly vicious (those claws are made to order for R-rated bloodshed) but also elegiac, thanks to Stewart's gravitas, Jackman's…

Review of John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 07 Mar 2017

The bounty on Wick's head that turns the hit man's life into a nonstop epic battle gives the story an expressionistic, existential underpinning…

Review of A Cure for Wellness (2017)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Feb 2017

Gore Verbinski indulges a hitherto undisclosed passion for vintage Eurohorror with this voluptuously shot mystery-shocker…

Review of I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Feb 2017

Film clips reveal Baldwin to be an elegantly elfin and velvet-voiced public presence, with a professional raconteur's sense of style, a realist's…

Review of Toni Erdmann (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 20 Feb 2017

The movie endorses rapprochement over antagonism and reconciliation over alienation as it builds to a climactic confrontation in which the…

Review of Paterson (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 16 Feb 2017

Lensed with a painter's eye by the great Frederick Elmes, the movie conveys an aura of Blakean mysticism through such homely sources as an…

Review of Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 16 Feb 2017

If the franchise's first female helmer brings any distaff distinction to the assignment, it may be in the presentation of Lara Pulver as a…

Review of xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 16 Feb 2017

This story of risk-taking rebels is so afraid of offending moviegoers its plot has been calibrated to fit the theories of federal-government…

Review of A Monster Calls (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 27 Jan 2017

Benefits greatly from the sensitive lead performance of Lewis MacDougall, whose exposure to a home-movie-projection screening of the black-and-white…

Review of Split (2017)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 25 Jan 2017

The director's use of offscreen space to generate tension is particularly expert, as demonstrated in an opening abduction sequence that is…

Review of Silence (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 19 Jan 2017

The deliberate pace and the repeated actions give the film a ritual, even liturgical texture, as if the repetition is intended to benefit the…

Review of Live by Night (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 19 Jan 2017

The painstaking period art direction, bloody gunplay and colorful supporting hoodlums should amuse mob-movie fans, but the turgid, complacent…

Review of Silence (2017)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 19 Jan 2017

The deliberate pace and the repeated actions give the film a ritual, even liturgical texture, as if the repetition is intended to benefit the…

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