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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 05 Dec 2015

It's a movie you can take Grandma to - and one that might induce Grandma to reminisce about the dark passages and tough choices of her youth…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 05 Dec 2015

It's a movie you can take Grandma to - and one that might induce Grandma to reminisce about the dark passages and tough choices of her youth…

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Review of Focus (2014)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Dec 2015

If the movie nonetheless leaves us feeling unsatisfied, that's because the characters, reduced to flies in the writers' tangled web, never…

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Review of Cinderella (2015)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Dec 2015

While it's as unchallenging as comfort food, this Cinderella is almost as hard to hate…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Dec 2015

Two Days is far from a conventional hero's journey, but it's a compelling parable of the choices we make to survive and thrive at work…

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Review of Focus (2015)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Dec 2015

If the movie nonetheless leaves us feeling unsatisfied, that's because the characters, reduced to flies in the writers' tangled web, never…

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Review of Jurassic World (2015)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Dec 2015

In short, this film could have used a Rise of the Planet of the Apes treatment…

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Review of Furious 7 (2015)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Dec 2015

Another factor that makes Furious 7 highly watchable is director James Wan's commitment to following the action from several characters' points…

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Review of Cinderella (2013)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Dec 2015

While it's as unchallenging as comfort food, this Cinderella is almost as hard to hate…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Dec 2015

No one should come to a Mission: Impossible movie for anything but those set pieces, and director Christopher McQuarrie delivers some rich…

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Review of Focus (1994)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Dec 2015

If the movie nonetheless leaves us feeling unsatisfied, that's because the characters, reduced to flies in the writers' tangled web, never…

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Review of Blackhat (2015)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Dec 2015

An intricate mystery and a handful of explosive action scenes don't make up for problems with casting, characterization and pacing, and the…

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Review of Magic Mike XXL (2015)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Dec 2015

There's a fun, inclusive quality to its shaggy-dog narrative, for those willing to suspend their disbelief and check their inhibitions at the door…

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Review of Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Dec 2015

Since it's a comedy about college a cappella, there's no lack of beats, literal or figurative. But they feel less fresh this time around…

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Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Dec 2015

Exodus is all over the place. Except on one point: Scott delivers the all-important spectacle…

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Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Dec 2015

[Vinterberg] has created a painterly, Hardy-esque world that transcends stereotypes of bucolic beauty - and whose bewitching half-light clings…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 25 Nov 2015

Mockingjay is a lengthy demonstration packed with more grief and soul searching than fun, to some readers' dismay…

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Review of Grandma (2015)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 25 Nov 2015

Tomlin gets full mileage out of her curmudgeonly lines, and she and Garner have such great comic chemistry that it's easy to overlook the thinness…

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Review of The Look of Silence (2014)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 25 Nov 2015

Unlike many documentaries on unpleasant subjects, Silence isn't an ordeal you undergo for the information value…

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Review of Ricki and the Flash (2015)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 25 Nov 2015

Ricki and the Flash is a quieter, better film than it initially appears, but it's uneven, never quite committed to its smarter inclinations…

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