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Review of Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 30 Mar 2014

A rollicking roundup of trademark put-on-a-show shtick, gonzo sketch comedy, toe-tapping musical numbers and a zany bombardment of guests…

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Review of Need for Speed (2014)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 18 Mar 2014

The plot is about as thin as the wisp of air between vehicles swishing past each other on a narrow highway, and the actors say empty-headed…

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Review of The Lego Movie (2014)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 10 Mar 2014

A story about creativity, independence and cooperation running on a crazy rail of pop-cultural riffs and satirical references, understated…

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Review of RoboCop (2014)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 21 Feb 2014

Too much of this rebooted robot tale just feels recycled instead of refreshed, especially compared to the visceral, original kick of its groundbreaking…

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Review of Nebraska (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 17 Feb 2014

A simple road trip that becomes something much bigger, much broader, and much deeper-a tale of fathers and sons and families and the many shades…

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Review of The Monuments Men (2014)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 13 Feb 2014

Oceans 11' plus 'Saving Private Ryan' divided by 'Raiders of the Lost Ark…

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Review of Herø (2001)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 23 Jan 2014

An old-fashioned romantic convention run through an innovative wavelength of sci-fi wi-fi that doesn't seem all that out of sync with today…

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Review of Her (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 23 Jan 2014

An old-fashioned romantic convention run through an innovative wavelength of sci-fi wi-fi that doesn't seem all that out of sync with today…

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Review of The Legend of Hercules (1996)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 13 Jan 2014

Through the centuries, the legend of Hercules has survived. It will survive the splat of this big B.C. cheese ball, too…

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Review of The Legend of Hercules (2014)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 13 Jan 2014

Through the centuries, the legend of Hercules has survived. It will survive the splat of this big B.C. cheese ball, too…

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Review of Grudge Match (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 09 Jan 2014

If I had a towel, I'd have thrown it in long before the legacies of two great movies were slammed to the mat and ground into a crappy comedy…

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Review of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 30 Dec 2013

For anyone who can feel its genuine grasp of its subjects, its music and its times in its deep, dig-it grooves, this cinematic sonnet to a…

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Review of American Hustle (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 20 Dec 2013

It's all hip, humorous, sad, edgy and immensely entertaining, this sprawling period parable about a group of greedy people who aren't who they…

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Review of Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 17 Dec 2013

A story behind a story behind a story that will strike a sentimental chord with anyone who remembers Disney's 1964 hit about a certain singing,…

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Review of Lone Survivor (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 16 Dec 2013

Cinematographer Tobias Schliessler shoots the violence as if it's both horrific and saintly, a Passion play of blood, saliva and bodies battered…

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Review of Frozen (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 09 Dec 2013

Not exactly a new royal standard for Disney females, but these two princesses do pack a two-fisted punch about the power of love and waiting…

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Review of Black Nativity (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 02 Dec 2013

This modest little feel-good movie won't contend for any major awards (unlike Whitaker's other movie this year, 'The Butler'), but its heart…

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Review of Delivery Man (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 25 Nov 2013

Has a message about family, connectivity and belonging but makes you slog down a long road of soppy, artificially sweet goop to get to it…

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Review of All Is Lost (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 18 Nov 2013

A spectacular, galvanizing display of how this one-time Hollywood golden boy, now 77, can still commandeer the screen…

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Review of Last Vegas (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 05 Nov 2013

As the cast runs a gauntlet of geriatric jokes, most of the chuckles feel churned from cheap sitcom stock…

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