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Review of Emperor (2012)

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

Emperor seems to have been tailor-made for high school history classes whose teachers like to give themselves a break by popping in a DVD…

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Review of The Host (2015)

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

What sort of worked on the page crashes and burns on the screen, as even an actress of Ronan's caliber can't make these self-debates anything…

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Review of Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

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

Action set pieces interrupt with sonic booms, like clockwork, whenever the character development lasts more than a few minutes…

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Review of Phantom (2013)

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

It's fun just to hear the lingo and watch the sailors go about their tasks, but not so fun when the captain's Dark Secret starts giving him…

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Review of Side Effects (2015)

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

It suggests Jagged Edge retold in the measured voice of the New Yorker…

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Review of Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

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

It pushes its gospel of modern magic - one third science, one third show biz, one third motivational speech - with Disney Channel earnestness…

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Review of Iron Man 3 (2013)

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

The elements that were once daring are starting to feel statistically approved - and tired…

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Review of Mud (2013)

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

It gets under our skin because Nichols gives us time to come to know Mud's island like the places we knew as children…

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Review of Side Effects (2013)

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

It suggests Jagged Edge retold in the measured voice of the New Yorker…

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Review of Life of Pi (2012)

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

The power of Life of Pi sneaks up on you, rather like the raw sadness of Lee's best-known previous prestige pic, Brokeback Mountain…

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Review of Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)

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

The dread that should be smothering is merely an intermittent itch…

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Review of Evil Dead (2013)

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

Alvarez doesn't succeed in making Evil Dead terrifying, but he does make it as prodigiously intense and gory for our time as the original was…

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Review of Warm Bodies (2013)

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

It starts bold and finishes timid and tepid, unable to do justice to its conceit…

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Review of Phantom (2013)

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

It's fun just to hear the lingo and watch the sailors go about their tasks, but not so fun when the captain's Dark Secret starts giving him…

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Review of The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

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

Would Pines have worked better as a 13-episode cable drama? Probably. Yet its atmosphere comes through beautifully on the big screen…

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Review of Compliance (2012)

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

The only film of 2012 that had me actively booing its villain - a mundane monster who doesn't need to touch his victims to scar them for life…

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Review of Skyfall (2012)

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

Mendes has embraced the general super-ness of Bond and taken his inspiration from the best superhero flick of recent years: The Dark Knight…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

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

Nick's voice in the novel is a dry, cutting counterpoint; the movie subordinates his irony to his angst and his boyish admiration for Gatsby…

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Review of Chasing Ice (2012)

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

As a documentary, it offers most of its likely viewers grim confirmation of what they already know, rather than the thrill of discovery…

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

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

A romantic comedy for people who don't like what Hollywood has been calling 'romantic comedies' these days…

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