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Review of Real Steel (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 13 Oct 2011

Set in the year 2020 but scavenges its buffed and retooled spare parts not just from the Mattel aisle at Toys R Us but from a vast and ancient…

Review of Life, Above All (2010)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 13 Oct 2011

The location settings are more compelling than the filmmaking, but the subject matter and the effective presence of young Khomotso Manyaka…

Review of Horrible Bosses (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 06 Oct 2011

Squanders a promising dark premise and attractive production values for puerile gross-out humor, 'shocking' sex talk, lazy plotting and a desperate…

Review of Tabloid (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 03 Oct 2011

McKinney is mesmerizing: the vain, expressive, motormouthed star of an elaborately structured drama of self that qualifies as one of the more…

Review of 50/50 (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 29 Sep 2011

Fact-inspired yet unpersuasive, transforming neurofibrosarcoma into a lucky break -- a short cut to a more purposeful life, complete with an…

Review of Dolphin Tale (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 29 Sep 2011

Could be accused of mawkishness, but I have no problem recommending a movie that encourages children to love and respect wildlife…

Review of The Whistleblower (2010)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 29 Sep 2011

Structured and shot like a quality premium-cable channel police drama, this fact-based story might have had more impact as a documentary…

Review of Contagion (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 29 Sep 2011

Shot with documentary grimness, the movie's relative realism is less dramatically persuasive than the go-for-broke B-movie hysteria of such…

Review of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 15 Sep 2011

The husband's hostility seems to encourage disaster, and the depiction of the couple's relationship offers something of a preview of what Stanley…

Review of The Trip (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 15 Sep 2011

I expected 'The Trip' to be funny, but I didn't expect it to be one of the year's most beautiful films, thanks to cinematographer Ben Smithard's…

Review of Creature (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 15 Sep 2011

Assembles all the ingredients necessary for a tasty swampsploitation horror gumbo, but sabotages the meal with cheesy digital blur effects…

Review of Attack the Block (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 15 Sep 2011

Like a Brit Joe Dante, debuting writer-director Joe Cornish both respects and rattles the genre, and he transforms his low budget into a virtue…

Review of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 15 Sep 2011

The husband's hostility seems to encourage disaster, and the depiction of the couple's relationship offers something of a preview of what Stanley…

Review of Drive (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 15 Sep 2011

With style and rubber to burn, this is a candidate for best movie of the year, even when it becomes too pleased with its own remorseless coolness…

Review of Bad Ronald (1974)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 15 Sep 2011

Offers a non-supernatural variation on the idea that something sinister haunts the conventional family home, lurking within the walls and behind…

Review of We Were Here (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 11 Sep 2011

Reminds us that sometimes people really do pull together and help each other…

Review of Shark Night 3D (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 11 Sep 2011

Disappointing, but diverting; I was expecting the man-eating hammerhead, but not the lecture on 'moral relativism' from the local sheriff…

Review of Jungle Warriors (1984)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 01 Sep 2011

Plenty of absurd fun, as a planeload of supposed supermodels, their similarly babe-like assistants and a few dingy men (including a coke-snorting…

Review of Chained Heat (1983)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 01 Sep 2011

In 'The Exorcist,' little Linda Blair spun her head around…

Review of The Guard (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 01 Sep 2011

Funny and entertaining from first moment to last…

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