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Review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 04 Sep 2014

A movie like this doesn't have to be serious to be good (or even just fun), but the people who make it have to take it seriously…

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Review of The Expendables 3 (2014)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 04 Sep 2014

As the stars get younger and the action gets tamer, Expendables comes to resemble more and more of its direct-to-video kin, and worth about…

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Review of The Identical (2014)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 04 Sep 2014

Movies like this get made all the time, sometimes they even get released into theaters with a modicum of TV advertising, and they're all about…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 30 Jul 2014

For all that doesn't work, a lot does and hopefully with time and distance, Gunn and his collaborators can chuck all of the non-silly stuff…

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Review of Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 25 Jun 2014

With his fourth bite at the Transformers apple, director Michael Bay escapes from the dungeon of the actively insulting and scales the giddy…

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Review of Transcendence (2014)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 16 Apr 2014

Transcendence wants to leave itself open to interpretation but it does so in the laziest way possible; by leaving every option on the table…

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Review of Draft Day (2014)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 09 Apr 2014

As long as you don't expect too much out of it (or put too much into it), Draft Day will give you exactly what you expect out of it, but not…

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Review of Non-Stop (2014)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 28 Feb 2014

Non-Stop is director Jaume Collet-Serra's latest complete failure at creating believable suspense…

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Review of Non-Stop (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 28 Feb 2014

Non-Stop is director Jaume Collet-Serra's latest complete failure at creating believable suspense…

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Review of The Monuments Men (2014)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 07 Feb 2014

George Clooney seems to want to find a new perspective on something big--World War II--by looking at it from a small, specific point of view…

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Review of Her (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 09 Jan 2014

An exquisitely conceived and executed fable about the need for, and difficulty of, human connection…

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Review of Herø (2001)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 09 Jan 2014

An exquisitely conceived and executed fable about the need for, and difficulty of, human connection…

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Review of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 18 Dec 2013

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty wants to be a modern fable, trying to manage the difficult feat of tugging on heartstrings without yanking…

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Review of August: Osage County (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 13 Dec 2013

Despite a first-rate cast and the original playwright adapting his own Pulitzer winning drama August: Osage County's overwrought melodrama…

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Review of American Hustle (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 12 Dec 2013

A dark comedy with a dash of crime drama and a crime drama with a healthy sense of humor, American Hustle defies easy categorization as it…

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Review of Frozen (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 26 Nov 2013

Frozen is Disney's latest entrant into its classic fairy-tale animation history and mostly lives up to its formidable ancestry even as it tweaks…

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Review of Thor: The Dark World (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 07 Nov 2013

Thor: The Dark World is a bombastic sequel which celebrates everything the first film did well while still not knowing what to do with its…

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Review of The Counselor (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 24 Oct 2013

In all this philosophizing and frequently excellent dialogue, no one has been able to come up with a good idea on where it should go…

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Review of Carrie (2002)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 17 Oct 2013

It's all very true to the book, but we've had the straightforward adaptation of Carrie already; if you really are going to go back over old…

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Review of Carrie (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 17 Oct 2013

It's all very true to the book, but we've had the straightforward adaptation of Carrie already; if you really are going to go back over old…

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