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Movie Reviews by John Beifuss - Page 73 of 98

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Review of Control (2004)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 21 Dec 2007

The monochromatic palette suggests the kitchen-sink heyday of 1960s British cinema; fittingly, 'Control' is at its best when it concentrates…

Review of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 21 Dec 2007

A movie musical for people who don't like musicals, in the way that -- for example -- Kenneth Branagh's 'Frankenstein' was a horror movie for…

Review of Bee Movie (2007)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 Dec 2007

Events veer from the apocalyptic (the near-extinction of America's flowers) to the inexplicable (the finale is a parody of an 'Airport' movie),…

Review of My Kid Could Paint That (2007)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 07 Dec 2007

Raises compelling questions about artistic 'authenticity,' the 'meaning' of modern art, the voracious and double-edged demands of the news…

Review of Beowulf (2007)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 26 Nov 2007

Simultaneously celebrates and critiques the audience's centuries-spanning hunger for heroic epics…

Review of No Country for Old Men (2007)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 26 Nov 2007

May be the most faithful screen adaptation of a novel since John Huston directed 'The Maltese Falcon' in 1941…

Review of I'm Not There (2007)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 26 Nov 2007

This audaciously imagined but ultimately surprisingly conventional not-quite-biopic insists on tethering Dylan to politics, to biography, to…

Review of Beowulf (1999)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 26 Nov 2007

Simultaneously celebrates and critiques the audience's centuries-spanning hunger for heroic epics…

Review of B'ella (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 26 Nov 2007

Its anti-abortion argument is loaded: How many pregnant waitresses discover they've been working alongside a kind, sensitive and handsome former…

Review of Beowulf (1976)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 26 Nov 2007

Simultaneously celebrates and critiques the audience's centuries-spanning hunger for heroic epics…

Review of Enchanted (2007)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 26 Nov 2007

Maintains a delicate balance between wish-fulfillment fantasy and a recognition that the world inhabited by its audience is filled with disappointment…

Review of Bella (2007)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 26 Nov 2007

Its anti-abortion argument is loaded: How many pregnant waitresses discover they've been working alongside a kind, sensitive and handsome former…

Review of Bella (2006)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 26 Nov 2007

Its anti-abortion argument is loaded: How many pregnant waitresses discover they've been working alongside a kind, sensitive and handsome former…

Review of Lions for Lambs (2007)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 09 Nov 2007

Might be a useful tool for stimulating discussion in a high school classroom, as long as the class is studying civics and not cinema…

Review of Fred Claus (2007)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 09 Nov 2007

Paul Giamatti's oddly soulful turn as Santa stands out like a Christmas cookie atop a septic tank in this randomly plotted and intermittently…

Review of 30 Days of Night (2007)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 02 Nov 2007

The portrayal of small-town dynamics amid the loneliness of the frozen North is more artful than the frenzied, sloppy, shaky-camera fangwork…

Review of American Gangster (2007)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 02 Nov 2007

May be the first underworld epic in which a drug kingpin lectures a subordinate about the significance of 'brand names' and 'trademark infringement…

Review of The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 25 Oct 2007

Anderson's signature style is feeling the pressure of the law of diminishing returns -- a law as menacing to the artist as that of gravity…

Review of Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 25 Oct 2007

A lovable heroin addict helps a widow and her children cope with loss... Obvious and unconvincing…

Review of Into the Wild (2007)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Oct 2007

The topography of the canyons, rivers, deserts, wheat fields and forests is no more fascinating than that of the faces McCandless encounters…

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