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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 27 Mar 2015

Might have been a simple takedown of the Millennial generation - you know: These damn kids today. But the movie is more complex than that…

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Review of Get Hard (2015)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 27 Mar 2015

A blast of scattershot raunch, you say? The star bares his pasty butt? Is it a Will Ferrell movie…

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Review of Insurgent (2015)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 20 Mar 2015

Suffers the usual stuck-in-the-middle problems, and lacks the plot clarity and kinetic thrust that kept the first picture from being a pure…

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Review of Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 13 Mar 2015

Will likely pop some eyes among those only casually acquainted with the church's bizarre workings…

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Review of Focus (2015)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 27 Feb 2015

A double-cross comedy that doesn't quite work…

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Review of Focus (1994)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 27 Feb 2015

A double-cross comedy that doesn't quite work…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 13 Feb 2015

Hopeless twaddle, but sleekly made and sometimes funny. An honorable effort, and better than it needed to be…

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Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 13 Feb 2015

Hopeless twaddle, but sleekly made and sometimes funny. An honorable effort, and better than it needed to be…

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Review of Wild Card (2015)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 30 Jan 2015

Statham is one of the most appealing of action stars, but the film is a little light on action, and his narrow range is unfairly tested by…

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Review of Still Alice (2014)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 30 Jan 2015

Moore is sensational -- all the reason anyone might need to see this film, which unfortunately offers little else to command our attention…

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Review of Mortdecai (2015)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 23 Jan 2015

Not the flaming catastrophe that its dreadful trailer seems to promise, but still a mess -- frantic and leaden and largely laughless…

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Review of American Sniper (2014)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 16 Jan 2015

Eastwood never exults in the brutal action, and throughout the film we can feel his disgust…

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Review of Blackhat (2015)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 16 Jan 2015

Mann must have felt he could overcome the script's abundant shortcomings by simple exertion of style. He was wrong about this…

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Review of Inherent Vice (2014)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 09 Jan 2015

There's nothing at stake in the plot, and the characters are self-contained oddball units that don't really interrelate-they're just amusing kooks…

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Review of Big Eyes (2014)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 26 Dec 2014

Burton also addresses a question previously raised in his 1994 Ed Wood: What is art? And who gets to decide…

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Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 12 Dec 2014

The story is so familiar that cynics might wonder why a pressing need was felt to retell it…

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Review of Wild (2014)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 05 Dec 2014

Witherspoon plays Cheryl - grimy and bruised and sometimes bloodied on her long trek -- without a shred of protective movie-star vanity…

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Review of Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 28 Nov 2014

The premise is already played out, and the scattershot fun is strained…

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Review of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 21 Nov 2014

A fresh vision. And as filmed by Lyle Vincent (in beautiful high-contrast black-and-white), the movie has a dreamlike pull…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 21 Nov 2014

Katniss' concern for the anti-sexy Peeta results in her spending quite a bit of the movie in po-faced mopery…

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