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Review of '71 (2014)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 16 Mar 2018

The film touches on the politics that inform the action but not enough to provide much context…

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Review of Little Boy (2015)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 16 Mar 2018

While the story has some logical (not to mention theological) inconsistencies, it is well-paced, well-produced, and very well acted…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 16 Mar 2018

Among the many mind-bogglingly implausible fantasies Fifty Shades of Grey sells, the one I think that most accounts for its popularity is the…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 16 Mar 2018

Nolan's refreshing love affair with self-determination goes too far…

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Review of The Good Lie (2014)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 16 Mar 2018

Within it you can see the misty outline of the great movie it could have been if only the producers had possessed the courage (or possibly…

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Review of The Water Diviner (2014)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 16 Mar 2018

Once again the character representative of Christianity shows only selfish, shallow callousness while the character representative of Islam…

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Review of The Good Lie (2013)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 16 Mar 2018

Within it you can see the misty outline of the great movie it could have been if only the producers had possessed the courage (or possibly…

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Review of Laggies (2014)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 16 Mar 2018

It winds up indulging the very delusions that a good (not to mention realistic) script would puncture…

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Review of American Sniper (2014)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 16 Mar 2018

Along with everything else it does, the movie portrays the enemy we are up against in the most unflinching terms, and it allows us to feel…

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

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 16 Mar 2018

Among the many mind-bogglingly implausible fantasies Fifty Shades of Grey sells, the one I think that most accounts for its popularity is the…

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Review of Poverty, Inc. (2015)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 16 Mar 2018

What makes the film particularly interesting is that the global economic issues it explores are the same as those debated in our national op-eds…

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Review of A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 15 Mar 2018

How ironic that Disney tamed L'Engle's wild novel about the dangers of conformity by making it look and sound like everything else…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 15 Mar 2018

It's an interesting comparison [to Bond], particularly as Rogue Nation, perhaps more than any other M:I film, points up differences between…

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Review of Jurassic World (2015)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 15 Mar 2018

Summer moviegoers cannot live by superheroes alone, and darn if the entire time my grown-up, film critic head was saying, This is so stupid,…

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Review of I Can Only Imagine (2018)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 15 Mar 2018

But overall, I Can Only Imagine is an indie that does the song and its sentiments proud…

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Review of Woodlawn (2015)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 15 Mar 2018

Unfortunately, for all its skillfully executed parts, Woodlawn's whole lacks focus…

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Review of Mr. Holmes (2015)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 15 Mar 2018

McKellen succeeds in spades, charming us in one moment with his crotchetiness and breaking our hearts with his fear and weakness in another…

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Review of Spectre (2015)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 15 Mar 2018

At times, Spectre becomes so comically convoluted, you half expect sharks with lasers on their heads to come swimming out of the underground river…

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Review of The Meddler (2016)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 05 Mar 2018

Somehow a story that otherwise honors the value of a man to his family fails to notice the irony of applauding arrangements that rob little…

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Review of Me Before You (2016)

By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 05 Mar 2018

How awful…

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