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Review of Prometheus (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 04 Jul 2012

Prometheus asks a big, loaded question, but teasingly leaves the answer for another mission...and another movie…

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Review of Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 22 Jun 2012

Restores some of the fable's pre-Disney grit and gristle and strips decades of candy coating off its grown-up edge…

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Review of Rock of Ages (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 22 Jun 2012

Big, showy and over the top with highs, lows, laughs and some truly fist-pumping performances from a diverse cast of familiar actors, most…

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Review of What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 07 Jun 2012

A dirty diaper bag of sex jokes, sentimental mush, cartoonish claptrap and weary parent-to-be cliches…

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Review of Men in Black 3 (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 31 May 2012

Dials down the creepy-crawly alien effects and ups the human element for this trip down the time tunnel, with a running theme of mortality,…

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Review of The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 13 May 2012

A mind-blowing horror-show cocktail of gods, movie monsters and mythology…

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Review of The Avengers (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 03 May 2012

If you're looking to stretch your movie-superhero dollar, here's some serious blockbuster bang for your cinema buck…

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Review of The Three Stooges (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 25 Apr 2012

A jubilantly juvenile celebration of the act's slapstick legacy that grafts vintage Stooge-isms onto modern jokes about iPhones, Twitter and…

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Review of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 18 Apr 2012

Fishing becomes a metaphor for patience, tolerance and faith, suggesting that life's flow of natural instinct can sometimes be wondrously interrupted…

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Review of Mirror Mirror (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 15 Apr 2012

Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's not so funny, and sometimes it's excruciatingly un-funny…

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Review of The Hunger Games (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 01 Apr 2012

Lawrence is a strong role model for young girls with her character's sacrifice, courage, moral grounding in a world that's lost its own, and…

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Review of 21 Jump Street (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 23 Mar 2012

The humor squeezes just about all the giggle juice it can get out of the R rating…

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Review of John Carter (2012)

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

Romance, action, humor, and even some philosophical gristle: Is war a cosmic constant? Is anything worth fighting for…

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Review of Safe House (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 01 Mar 2012

If you like an explosive, action-packed game of high-stakes cat-and-mouse that keeps you guessing until the very end, you'll love skipping…

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Review of The Artist (2011)

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

Dujardin and Bejo light up the screen. It's easy to believe them as movie idols from a bygone era…

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Review of Red Tails (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 03 Feb 2012

Director Anthony Hemingway seems stuck in television mode, unable to unfurl his dramatic banner into longer, bigger movie proportions…

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Review of Young Adult (2011)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 19 Jan 2012

Like the rollers inside the old cassette tape that Mavis plays over and over in her dilapidated car, her own wheels are likewise spinning round…

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Review of We Bought a Zoo (2011)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 17 Jan 2012

The soundtrack's FM '70s rock classics seem like leftovers from one of Crowe's other movies...or maybe one of his Rolling Stone cover stories…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 05 Jan 2012

Director Brad Bird juices and gooses the whole affair with edge and excitement, new energy, humor and heartbeat, and a terrific feel for big,…

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Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 29 Dec 2011

A tense, unsettling plunge into a dark, toxic world where the bleak Scandinavian setting isn't the only thing cold, cruel and unforgiving…

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