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Review of Dealin' with Idiots (2013)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 14 Aug 2013

Idiots” definitely isn’t for everyone, but its wry sensibility is several degrees more original than your average Hollywood knee-slapper…

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Review of Jobs (2013)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 14 Aug 2013

If it weren’t for his voice, Kutcher would have been the ideal choice to star in Jobs, a well-meant but ultimately unsurprising biopic…

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Review of Only God Forgives (2013)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 17 Jul 2013

It’s not that overwrought violence and human depravity are unfit grist for art, but without a compelling plot and a modicum of character…

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Review of Just Like a Woman (2013)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 03 Jul 2013

This well-intentioned buddy-road-trip flick lacks the danger, the drama and the sex appeal that most moviegoers will be looking for…

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Review of Copperhead (2013)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Jun 2013

It’s a maudlin, meandering bit of moviemaking that sheds little light on the loyal opposition in the North…

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Review of The Purge (2013)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 05 Jun 2013

The Purge is one of those unimaginative horror flicks that depend on skreeky music and sudden appearances to startle, but never actually frighten,…

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Review of Harvest of Empire (2012)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 01 Mar 2013

As an analysis of the causes of migration, it is one-dimensional and unconvincing…

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Review of Beautiful Creatures (2013)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 13 Feb 2013

Beautiful Creatures rises above the rabble thanks to an eminently watchable cast and a sharp screenplay by writer-director Richard LaGravenese…

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Review of Jack Reacher (2012)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 19 Dec 2012

In the movie version at least, efforts to render the hero larger than life result in a story that is less than convincing…

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Review of Broadway's Finest (2012)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 10 Oct 2012

Fake it till you make it would make a good tagline for Broadway's Finest…

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Review of Hellbound? (2012)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 03 Oct 2012

It's an engaging, accessible documentary that explores the (truly) eternal questions, Does hell exist? If so, who ends up there, and why…

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Review of Frankenweenie (2012)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 02 Oct 2012

There's no question it looks fantastic...As for the story, well, much like the original Frankenstein's monster, it is a haphazard assemblage…

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Review of Little White Lies (2010)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 05 Sep 2012

It's a style of storytelling that leaves the audience guessing, but it also gives the actors room to breathe, to inhabit their characters without…

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Review of Sleepwalk with Me (2012)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 29 Aug 2012

The perfect movie for fans of The Daily Show who actually stick around for the second-half interview…

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Review of Brother (2010)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 22 Aug 2012

The over-the-top opening, which evokes baby Moses in the bulrushes, indicates grand ambitions, but unfortunately the gritty realism of Rasquin's…

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Review of Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 08 Aug 2012

The metaphor is plain yet elegant: Ai is the clever cat busily devising ways to push through the barriers physical, cultural, mental -- that…

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Review of The Last Ride (2012)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 25 Jul 2012

Unlike, say, Val Kilmer's Jim Morrison in The Doors, Thomas makes no attempt to create a convincing facsimile of Hank Williams, which is just…

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Review of The Runway (2010)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 18 Jul 2012

The eccentric characters and wacky story line are merely camouflage for a movie with a heart that's pure Hollywood…

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Review of The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 11 Jul 2012

Freeman is back in Reiner's latest, The Magic of Belle Isle, which has all the pathos and saccharine of The Bucket List but little of the humor…

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Review of To Rome with Love (2012)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 04 Jul 2012

As cultural criticism, this commentary on life in the age of TMZ and the Real Housewives is hardly insightful, but it is executed to dizzying,…

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