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Movie Reviews by John Beifuss - Page 44 of 98

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Review of Blackthorn (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 02 Dec 2011

Worth seeing for its Western-genre pleasures and for its truly awesome Bolivian locations, which function almost as a rebuke to those special-effects-oriented…

Review of Like Crazy (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Nov 2011

A wonderful advertisement for the Canon EOS 7D camera, but also a reminder that so-called indie authenticity can be as phony as a million-dollar…

Review of Hugo (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Nov 2011

Something very rare: a celebration of past achievement that doesn't succumb to nostalgia…

Review of The Descendants (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Nov 2011

Becomes more enjoyable and somehow even looser as its plot tightens, and as the hand-holding narration disappears…

Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Nov 2011

At least Jacob seems to understand the contradiction inherent in the insistence that coldblooded undeath is just another lifestyle choice…

Review of Arthur Christmas (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Nov 2011

A scene in which zebras, elephants and other African animals float like balloons in the air after an accidental dusting of Santa's flying-reindeer…

Review of The Muppets (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Nov 2011

One of the movie's real pleasures is the 'reality' of its puppety ethos -- our awareness that Segel and Adams really are talking to Kermit…

Review of Immortals (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Nov 2011

The most unpretentious -- or should that be ridiculous…

Review of Hugo (2012)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Nov 2011

Something very rare: a celebration of past achievement that doesn't succumb to nostalgia…

Review of These Amazing Shadows (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Nov 2011

Entertaining, but only revealing when the directors visit the Library of Congress film storage vaults in Culpeper, Va., where close to 130,000…

Review of Anonymous (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Nov 2011

What's distressing isn't the film's plodding incoherence or wild-eyed credulousness but its misplaced priority: It suggests that what's most…

Review of Black Zoo (1963)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Nov 2011

Plays like a reactionary response to PETA and to laws that protect endangered species at the expense of development, and so probably seems…

Review of This Is What Love in Action Looks Like (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Nov 2011

Morgan Jon Fox's six-years-in-the-making documentary was inspired by 'a modern-day message in a bottle': a teen MySpace user's plea to be freed…

Review of Where Soldiers Come From (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Nov 2011

One of the more valuable and compassionate entries to date in the ever-expanding catalog of documentaries inspired by the wars in Afghanistan…

Review of David (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Nov 2011

Schematic but smart, and especially interesting in its telling details, as when Daud's bedside alarm clock goes off: Instead of music or a…

Review of Trog (1970)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Nov 2011

I admit it: I have a soft spot in my heart (and my head) for the stupefying, inexplicable 'Trog…

Review of Take Shelter (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Nov 2011

A movie born from the atmospheric pressure of the national mood, from the sense that danger is lurking around every corner…

Review of Happy Feet Two (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Nov 2011

Pointless and plotless, though not entirely flightless (a puffin named Sven passes himself off as a flying penguin)…

Review of Margin Call (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Nov 2011

Ultimately romanticizes the traders it pretends only to humanize, and validates the enterprise it is attempting to scold…

Review of Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Nov 2011

As the film peels layers of mystery, it suggests -- not entirely persuasively -- that its heroine's alternate lifestyles both represent cults,…

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