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Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 11 Jan 2013

Zero Dark Thirty is not a sequel to Boal's and Bigelow's earlier effort, yet it is very much an extension of The Hurt Locker's taut pacing…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 08 Jan 2013

For a superhero origin film, it's pretty good, but it's hardly amazing…

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Review of Spider-Man (1977)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 08 Jan 2013

For a superhero origin film, it's pretty good, but it's hardly amazing…

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Review of 21 Jump Street (2012)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 08 Jan 2013

Given the broad drama of the series, their movie should be full of big ideas, and instead settles for redundant gags involving drugs, guns,…

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Review of The Hunger Games (2012)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 07 Jan 2013

Given the recent failure of so many big-budget films, the odds weren't in The Hunger Games favor, either. Thankfully, Hollywood got this one right…

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Review of Frankenweenie (2012)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 07 Jan 2013

Compared to the shorter and more to the point original, the expanded Frankenweenie is padded and less focused, meandering from a simple path…

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 04 Jan 2013

Silver Linings Playbook doesn't settle for the routine or the cliché. It's a funny drama about imperfect people looking for love…

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Review of The Avengers (2012)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 04 Jan 2013

Whedon has delivered that rare action-packed, special-effects spectacle that is relentless in its eagerness to please and successful beyond its goal…

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Review of Promised Land (2012)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 04 Jan 2013

The drama can be funny and romantic and occasionally moving…

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Review of Jack Reacher (2012)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 21 Dec 2012

Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie paces his film at a steady clip, and the requisite car chases and action sequences are well executed…

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Review of This Is 40 (2012)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 21 Dec 2012

This is Fox's best role yet. Just as this painfully long comedy is Apatow's funniest film in years…

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Review of Life of Pi (2012)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 21 Nov 2012

Life of Pi proves to have the heart of a small art film with the big aspirations of a major blockbuster…

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Review of Skyfall (2012)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 09 Nov 2012

Quibble here and there over a sequence or a subplot that occasionally drifts off course from Skyfall's narrowly focused story, but this is…

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Review of Cloud Atlas (2012)

By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 25 Oct 2012

Cloud Atlas…

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