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Movie Reviews by John Beifuss - Page 9 of 98

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 30 Nov 2015

Ronan emerges here as the quietest spellbinder in movies…

Review of The Peanuts Movie (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 30 Nov 2015

Like Satchmo, Hemingway and Elvis, Charles M. Schulz was an authentic American genius who transformed his medium of expression…

Review of Room (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 30 Nov 2015

If acting awards are given not for mastery of craft or career achievement but for the impact of a performance on an audience, then go ahead…

Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 30 Nov 2015

Ronan emerges here as the quietest spellbinder in movies…

Review of Secret in Their Eyes (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 30 Nov 2015

There was a time when the first screen pairing of Best Actress Oscar-winners Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman would have been promoted as a…

Review of Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Nov 2015

Presented in 3D, the special effects are more elaborate than usual, but the regressive/provocative idea that filmmaking and film-watching open…

Review of Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Nov 2015

Coarsely explicit groin-centric slapstick and trendy 'zompocalypse' theme aside, this is a surprisingly lively and agreeably goofy throwback…

Review of Labyrinth of Lies (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 12 Nov 2015

A movie of sincerity and integrity, but the storytelling is unchallenging…

Review of Tab Hunter Confidential (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 06 Nov 2015

Film buffs especially are likely to enjoy this entertaining documentary, which explains how a literal choirboy became six feet of rugged manhood…

Review of Wonder Women!: The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2012)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 06 Nov 2015

Should prove irresistible to comic-book fans and pop-culture mavens, even if it is misleadingly selective as it argues that young girls mostly…

Review of Sinister 2 (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 06 Nov 2015

The ghost children require the boys to watch home movies of murder; in this way, the film ritualizes the 'aesthetic observance of violence…

Review of The People Under the Stairs (1991)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 06 Nov 2015

A parable of underclass exploitation that ends in revolution and extreme -- even explosive -- wealth redistribution…

Review of Mistress America (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 06 Nov 2015

Throughout 'Mistress America' I found myself thinking I might enjoy the smart script more if I could read it in book form and 'direct' the…

Review of Shocker (1989)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 06 Nov 2015

The notion that television regularly delivers violence into America's living rooms is literalized in this thoroughly wick-wick-wack but distinctive…

Review of Iris (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 05 Nov 2015

It's a tribute from one innovator to another: The movie's director is Albert Maysles, one of cinema's most celebrated nonfiction filmmakers…

Review of The Pyramid (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 05 Nov 2015

Despite its 'found footage' presentation, this is an amusingly unpretentious genre exercise, more akin to the old-school monster movies, mummy's-curse…

Review of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 05 Nov 2015

A time travel sequence is an eye-searing mind-melter, while the scene in which Plankton literally enters SpongeBob's brain mixes the sickly…

Review of HOME (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 05 Nov 2015

Designed with lots of bouncy round shapes and few hard angles, this noisy and colorful 3D film frequently suggests an exploding bubblegum machine;…

Review of The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 05 Nov 2015

Whether adulthood is measured by age or experience or by something less quantifiable is one of the key questions the movie asks…

Review of The Book of Life (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 05 Nov 2015

The Mexi-centricity is novel and welcome, as is the flirtation with morbidness, but the film overall is filled with the usual trademarks of…

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