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Review of The International (2009)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 13 Feb 2009

More intriguing than the action is Tykwer's use of architecture; his characters are dwarfed by looming towers of cold steel and glass, which…

Review of Friday the 13th (2009)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 13 Feb 2009

The 'Friday' movies are about the fear of death -- especially violent, untimely death, the type that is most scary to the teenagers who flock…

Review of My Bloody Valentine (2009)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 10 Feb 2009

In a packed auditorium in 3D, the film is a true thrill ride -- a communal experience of shared screams and relieved laughter…

Review of Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 10 Feb 2009

Borrows from 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'The Passion of the Christ' (there are two, count 'em, two gory scourging scenes) and, especially, 'Spartacus…

Review of The Pink Panther 2 (2009)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 09 Feb 2009

No movie is produced to lose money, but the new 'Pink Panther' films have no apparent reason to exist except to wring more dollars from an…

Review of Coraline (2009)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 05 Feb 2009

If 3-D is going to survive in cinemas as more than a carnivalesque gimmick, filmmakers will have to deliver more movies like the macabre and…

Review of New in Town (2009)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 30 Jan 2009

In one scene, the townsfolk, candles in hand, gather around an outdoor Christmas tree to sing about Jesus; at the end of the performance, I…

Review of The Wrestler (1971)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 23 Jan 2009

Represents a perfect match of actor to character and back story to script…

Review of The Wrestler (2008)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 23 Jan 2009

Represents a perfect match of actor to character and back story to script…

Review of Inkheart (2008)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 23 Jan 2009

Better an adventure movie for families that (however paradoxically) extols the value and wonder of books than yet another movie that celebrates…

Review of The Wrestler (1984)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 23 Jan 2009

Represents a perfect match of actor to character and back story to script…

Review of Valkyrie (2008)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 16 Jan 2009

Handsomely mounted but undistinguished…

Review of Revolutionary Road (2008)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 16 Jan 2009

If the film seems obvious compared to the novel, it captures Yates' idea that the young, even naive, Frank and April are play actors in their…

Review of Gran Torino (2008)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 09 Jan 2009

Its bluntness and sincerity -- and the undistracted momentum of its storytelling -- are like splashes of cold water in a face gone slack from…

Review of Frost/Nixon (2008)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 09 Jan 2009

The movie transforms the wily Nixon into a sympathetic figure -- a familiarly 'complicated' movie character, and hardly one of the darkest…

Review of The Reader (2008)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 05 Jan 2009

The Reader' suggests -- what? That Nazis might have been nicer if they'd spent more time reading instead of burning books…

Review of The Spirit (1987)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 29 Dec 2008

The Spirit' conclusively demonstrates that a comic-book auteur may be no more a natural filmmaker than a basketball player is a ballerina…

Review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 29 Dec 2008

Forrest Gump told us life's like a box of chocolates; Benjamin Button reminds us of the melted, shriveled and petrified future of those candies…

Review of The Spirit (2008)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 29 Dec 2008

The Spirit' conclusively demonstrates that a comic-book auteur may be no more a natural filmmaker than a basketball player is a ballerina…

Review of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 19 Dec 2008

Even Gort -- the coolest robot in science-fiction cinema -- has been reimagined as a cartoonish CG colossus who ironically resembles the Oscar…

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