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Review of Super 8 (2011)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 09 Jun 2011

Super 8 is a tremendously entertaining summer movie that could pass as a lost Steven Spielberg work from, say, 1979, which, not coincidentally,…

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Review of Super 8 (1988)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 09 Jun 2011

Super 8 is a tremendously entertaining summer movie that could pass as a lost Steven Spielberg work from, say, 1979, which, not coincidentally,…

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Review of The Hangover Part II (2011)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 24 May 2011

Sure, it has some scattered big are-you-kidding? laughs, but could they have at least pretended that they weren't making the exact same movie…

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Review of Bridesmaids (2011)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 12 May 2011

Director Paul Feig takes the film in a laid-back, absurd and often improvised direction…

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Review of Thor (2011)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 05 May 2011

Hemsworth is a carved-from-stone god who makes Brad Pitt look as bulked-up as Angelina Jolie, and he gives just the right amount of wry recognition…

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Review of The Rite (1969)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 15 Apr 2011

Hopkins' light touch brightens up this exorcism film, one more concerned with creepy atmosphere than straight-out nastiness…

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Review of The Rite (2011)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 15 Apr 2011

Hopkins' light touch brightens up this exorcism film, one more concerned with creepy atmosphere than straight-out nastiness…

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Review of Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 15 Apr 2011

It's a decent night out, provided you know what you're in for…

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Review of 127 Hours (2010)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 15 Apr 2011

This is an honest-to-goodness, feel-good triumphant scene -- albeit one that's disorienting and exhausting, somewhat as it must have been in…

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Review of The Conspirator (2011)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 13 Apr 2011

There's plenty of drama to draw upon, and the steady Redford is wise to let the action unfold smoothly, teased out in testimony and flashbacks…

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Review of Arthur (2011)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 06 Apr 2011

A flat but innocuous redo of an aggressively heartwarming film that hasn't aged well since its 1981 release…

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Review of Soul Surfer (2011)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 06 Apr 2011

A solid inspirational story that takes seriously a couple of things often made trivial in popular entertainment: surfing and religion…

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Review of Insidious (2011)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 31 Mar 2011

James Wan knows his horror tricks -- even though Insidious has just a PG-13 rating, there were people jumping out of seats all through the auditorium…

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Review of Rango (2011)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 04 Mar 2011

He is sinking deeper into the guacamole of his own deception, says the owl who leads a Mexican mariachi band that serves as the story's Greek…

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Review of The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 04 Mar 2011

They have the power to walk through doors in one part of New York and come out in another. That power involves hats. Magic hats…

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Review of The Dilemma (1919)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 17 Jan 2011

It waits around for the chatty Vaughn to decide what he's going to do, ping-ponging between mean humor and bland sentimentality…

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Review of The Dilemma (2011)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 17 Jan 2011

It waits around for the chatty Vaughn to decide what he's going to do, ping-ponging between mean humor and bland sentimentality…

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Review of The King's Speech (2010)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 29 Dec 2010

Two great performances, neither marked by that 'look at me…

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Review of True Grit (2010)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 22 Dec 2010

A rousing adventure that's also sneakily comic, with humor that rises from the sharply drawn characters and the dialogue they spout…

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Review of Black Swan (2010)

By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 16 Dec 2010

Works best as a bit of tongue-in-cheek high camp…

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