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Review of Brave (2012)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 31 Dec 2012

Although the previews would have you believe that the film was an epic journey for the flame-haired firebrand, we are really treated (or deprived,…

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Review of The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 31 Dec 2012

The Dark Knight Rises directly counters the arguments made against The Dark Knight. Maybe, sometimes, it is better to leave the demons unvanquished…

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Review of The Impossible (2012)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 31 Dec 2012

The term movie magic should be reserved for scenes such as the one where the unflinching realism of the natural disaster is conveyed without…

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Review of This Is 40 (2012)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 31 Dec 2012

My suspicion is that Apatow made a conscious decision to throw episodes at us scattershot to reflect the battlefield chaos of a relationship…

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Review of Les Misérables (2012)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 31 Dec 2012

The issue with a motion picture reproduction of the musical is not whether the songs will be spectacular or whether nostalgia will play a role;…

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Review of Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 31 Dec 2012

Anderson's manner becomes a second skin and essential to the script, making Moonrise Kingdom a most comfortable way to watch matters uncomfortable…

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Review of Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 31 Dec 2012

For all its curiosities and loose ends, Beasts of the Southern Wild casts a formidable spell…

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Review of Butter (2012)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 14 Oct 2012

As smart, savvy, and witty as the film is at times, it never escapes the inherent identity crisis in its makeup…

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Review of It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl (2012)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 26 Sep 2012

A blow by blow, thoroughly researched rendering of the Hungarian secular journalist's instrumental part in taking Zionism from the theoretical…

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Review of Knuckleball! (2012)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 26 Sep 2012

Watching R.A…

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Review of Prometheus (2012)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 13 Jun 2012

Scott was so intent on returning his spawn to glory that he mistakenly shot for Alien by way of 2001: A Space Odyssey, making it all the more…

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Review of Hanna (2011)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 20 Jan 2012

The ingredients are there for success, but as we build toward resolution (or even increased conflict) Hanna fails to develop at a rate to match…

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Review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 20 Jan 2012

Criticizing or belittling the film is sort of like taking issue with a cup of tea or a navy business suit from Men's Warehouse…

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Review of Contagion (2011)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 20 Jan 2012

Soderbergh, who is as skilled as they come at uplifting routine templates, gives the infection movie über-A-list treatment…

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Review of The Muppets (2011)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 11 Jan 2012

By focusing on the Muppets of The Muppet Show (1976-1981) rather than the independent Muppets of prior films, the writers open up an unexplored…

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Review of The Descendants (2011)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 04 Jan 2012

Hawaii's lush and luminous landscape is well appreciated, but it does nothing to mask the maddeningly irrational plot-points Payne expects…

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Review of The Way (2010)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 04 Jan 2012

Between the sprightly soundtrack, the sensational on-location shoot, the anchoring performance by Sheen, and the methodological freedom permitted…

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Review of The Tree of Life (2011)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 04 Jan 2012

Terrence Malick's astonishing masterpiece of light, movement, and spirit, casts a dizzying spell and somehow manages to pronounce the ineffable…

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Review of Albert Nobbs (2011)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 29 Dec 2011

Although one cannot question the quality of performances here, with Glenn Close Mia Wasikowska, and Janet McTeer leading the way, Albert Nobbs…

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Review of Melancholia (2011)

By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 29 Dec 2011

Melancholia takes great pleasure in distressing its audience with ugly, harrowing imagery and behavior, but, more often that not, Von Trier's…

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