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Review of Gravity (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 02 Oct 2013

On the outside Gravity is much like the rest of its ilk - a diagram of the intensity of the human survival instinct; on the inside it is a…

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Review of The Wizard of Oz (1939)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 19 Sep 2013

MGM's fantastic IMAX 3D conversion for the The Wizard of Oz's 75th anniversary underlines rather than obscures most of the film's visual pleasures,…

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Review of The Family (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 19 Sep 2013

The Family is filled with Besson's signature visual wit, boasting occasionally sharp satire aimed equally at both sides of the Atlantic, but…

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Review of Riddick (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 05 Sep 2013

Vin Diesel and David Twohy's Riddick sees the filmmakers and their creation on a search to return the anti-hero to his roots after the operatic…

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Review of The Grandmaster (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 02 Sep 2013

The Grandmaster lacks focus or drive as director Wong Kar-wai flails among the elements of Ip Man's life for something to hold onto and comes…

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Review of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 21 Aug 2013

There's enough of a glimmer that future stories can do away with the gristle and get into the meat of the thing, but you've got to get through…

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Review of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 15 Aug 2013

With a complete change in creative personnel and adjusted expectations Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters is a noticeable improvement over the…

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Review of Elysium (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 15 Aug 2013

If you can't ignore the ham-handedness of the message, which moves quickly from not far off-base to way, way over the top, it might be just…

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Review of The Wolverine (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 15 Aug 2013

For all the up and down The Wolverine is definitely more up than down more of the time…

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Review of R.I.P.D. (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 23 Jul 2013

If it sounds like Men in Black with ghosts instead of aliens that's because that's exactly what it is, just with a bit less wit and slickness…

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Review of The Lone Ranger (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 01 Jul 2013

It wouldn't work as well as it does if Hammer and Depp didn't play off one another as well as they do…

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Review of The Lone Ranger (1956)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 01 Jul 2013

It wouldn't work as well as it does if Hammer and Depp didn't play off one another as well as they do…

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Review of The Lone Ranger (2003)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 01 Jul 2013

It wouldn't work as well as it does if Hammer and Depp didn't play off one another as well as they do…

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Review of Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

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

Far from going where no one has gone before, this Star Trek is only interested in retreating along its old tracks…

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Review of The Hangover Part III (2013)

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

These movies are done. They are past done…

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Review of World War Z (2013)

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

Even with the botched ending there's a lot to like about the film, but World War Z stinks with the rot of missed opportunity…

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Review of White House Down (2013)

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

Yes, there is some enjoyment to be had from White House Down if only from how inept it is…

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Review of Man of Steel (2013)

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

There is a lot to like about Man of Steel ... but it could be better. There is a lot of room to grow and hopefully the next try will be better yet…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 08 May 2013

Gatsby waivers and wanders, overblown and overdone and about twenty minutes too long…

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Review of The Big Wedding (2013)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 30 Apr 2013

The Big Wedding is not a classic, or even really memorable, by any means, but considering the pit it starts at, it gets off light…

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