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Review of Electrick Children (2012)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 28 Mar 2014

The film doesn't treat the ultra-religious like aliens or scolds, nor does it demonize those who prefer sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll…

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Review of Divergent (2014)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 28 Mar 2014

At its heart, Divergent is wish fulfillment for teens raised by control freaks…

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Review of RoboCop (2014)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 06 Mar 2014

Having set up RoboCop as a drone whose humanity has been ruthlessly programmed out, the filmmakers can't figure out how to give him back meaningful…

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Review of Non-Stop (2013)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 06 Mar 2014

Non-Stop draws genuine tension from the scenario of strangers forced into proximity, each endowed with the power of instant, silent communication…

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Review of Non-Stop (2014)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 06 Mar 2014

Non-Stop draws genuine tension from the scenario of strangers forced into proximity, each endowed with the power of instant, silent communication…

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Review of The Lego Movie (2014)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 16 Feb 2014

Lord and Miller have found the mythological resonances that, along with handy licensing agreements, link those plastic bricks to the past three…

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Review of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 05 Feb 2014

It's one of these vending-machine movies: a good-enough, easily forgettable flick that benefits from selection bias and low expectations…

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Review of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 05 Feb 2014

Musically and visually, Inside Llewyn Davis offers plenty of frictionless pleasures to compensate for the prickly scrappiness of its hero…

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Review of I, Frankenstein (2014)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 05 Feb 2014

No creator's spark of inspired lunacy arrives to bring this dead hunk of commercial clichés alive…

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Review of That Awkward Moment (2014)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 05 Feb 2014

Efron says all his cocky-asshole lines diligently, but, try as he may, he doesn't have a Tucker Max bone in his body…

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Review of The Book Thief (2013)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 21 Dec 2013

While it's lavishly appointed and well acted, The Book Thief overemphasizes the redemptive value of the protagonist's art and underemphasizes,…

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Review of Frozen (2013)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 21 Dec 2013

Moms who don't want their daughters piningly opining that Someday My Prince Will Come may be pleased with Disney's twist on the notion that…

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Review of Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 21 Dec 2013

The deck is stacked, and the disingenuousness is profound, but director John Lee Hancock is good at saving his big schmaltz cards to play at the end…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 03 Dec 2013

Catching Fire focuses on the unfair dispensation of bread for the greater chunk of its hefty 146-minute running time, saving the circuses for dessert…

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Review of Ender's Game (2013)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 15 Nov 2013

It's heavy on the claustrophobic sensations that CGI-rich films tend to induce - reinforced in this case by the story's airless moral dualisms…

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Review of Laurence Anyways (2012)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 30 Oct 2013

It's far longer than it needs to be. But it's still an absorbing chronicle of a romance in which one partner happens to be transsexual…

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Review of Carrie (2002)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 30 Oct 2013

There are many ways to be the weird girl, and Moretz's preternatural self-possession is the diametrical opposite of Carrie's flailing awkwardness…

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Review of Carrie (2013)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 30 Oct 2013

There are many ways to be the weird girl, and Moretz's preternatural self-possession is the diametrical opposite of Carrie's flailing awkwardness…

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Review of Prisoners (2013)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Oct 2013

Roger Deakins uses erratic flashes and glimmers of light to suggest that deliverance is always close at hand, but not close enough…

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Review of Don Jon (2013)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Oct 2013

It's difficult to rate a movie that doesn't really start until its last half hour…

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