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Review of Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

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

You don't have to be totally immersed in Trekkie lore to follow Into Darkness, but a bit of basic Trek 101 would at least shed a little guiding light…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 14 May 2013

It may not be pure F. Scott, but this lavish, flamboyant version is quite the show...old sport…

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Review of Iron Man 3 (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 07 May 2013

Here, it's not the suit that makes the man; it's the man that makes the suit…

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Review of Mud (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 01 May 2013

A modern-day Huck Finn adventure pulled along in the mesmerizing current of a crime yarn and anchored to a teenager's heartbreaking quest for…

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Review of Oblivion (2013)

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

The jam-packed storyline piles on themes and sci-fi clichés, pompously wraps them around an obscure Victorian era poem, then throws in an…

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Review of Evil Dead (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 10 Apr 2013

A big, spewing slab of gory, red meat entertainment, carved out with all the delicacy of a sputtering chainsaw, for fans a horror movie classic…

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Review of Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Mar 2013

A big, boomy, flag-waving bash of lug-headed escapism…

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Review of Side Effects (2015)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 11 Mar 2013

A real pill of a movie that packs a serious one-two punch as a detective drama coupled with a cautionary tale about the dangers of trying to…

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Review of Side Effects (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 11 Mar 2013

A real pill of a movie that packs a serious one-two punch as a detective drama coupled with a cautionary tale about the dangers of trying to…

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Review of Snitch (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 27 Feb 2013

Has a sobering message underneath its action-movie surface-and behind the marquee power of its muscle-bound leading man…

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Review of Safe Haven (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 21 Feb 2013

Moves along at the pace of a leisurely paddled canoe, until the big, explosive, action-y roll-call finale of everything and everyone, in one…

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Review of Identity Thief (2013)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 14 Feb 2013

It's not perfect, but it is a wild 'n' crazy road trip on the lighter side of a topic that, as a lot of folks have discovered, is no laughing matter…

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Review of Alex Cross (2012)

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

Never quite rises above a run-of-the-mill, cop-chases-killer-thriller flick, or much expands beyond would happen if an hour-long TV drama was…

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Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 04 Feb 2013

A top-notch, viscerally powerfully mobster movie with a view of free-market enterprise as practiced at its most harrowingly basic, last-man-standing…

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Review of Broken City (2013)

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

Feels, looks and sounds like it's pouting that it can't be a smoldering 1940s pulp detective drama instead of a modern-day crime thriller that…

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Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

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

It asks its audience: When does the risk of doing something outweigh the risk not doing anything? What are the costs of revenge…

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Review of Jack Reacher (2012)

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

An often outlandish, overly talky crime-procedural drama that seems like a vanity project its marquee star must have wanted to do with his…

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Review of Parental Guidance (2012)

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

A yappy pile-up of grandparents-know-best shtick, gross-out bathroom humor and sentimental claptrap…

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Review of Les Misérables (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 27 Dec 2012

The misery is there, all right. But so is the uplift…

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Review of Playing for Keeps (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 14 Dec 2012

A father-son heart-tugger wrapped around a mushy reconciliation rom-com sprinkled with tinsel of shiny Hollywood supporting stars acting like…

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