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Review of The Imitation Game (1980)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 16 Dec 2014

Serviceably dramatizes an important historical story while giving rising star Cumberbatch suitably juicy material…

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Review of Top Five (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 12 Dec 2014

When it comes to comedy, funny always wins, and Chris Rock's third directorial effort does run on engagingly amusing riffs…

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Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 Dec 2014

A biblical epic in 2014 is a strange beast indeed, walking a fine line in the hopes of pleasing both the faithful...and those audiences more…

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Review of Foxcatcher (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Dec 2014

Quietly but firmly interprets the disturbing story of millionaire John du Pont through bifocal lenses of American dreaming and the sexual fantasies…

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Review of Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Dec 2014

Will probably divert kids with ease, given its manic exertion and pace...[but] we find out the hard way that these waddlers are better in small doses…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Nov 2014

We're meant to feel the weight of Katniss' situation, and we do, but the picture can also fairly be called leaden…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 05 Nov 2014

Love is what's really between the stars, y'all…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Oct 2014

The crackpot Birdman on some level tells a relatable story of one person's attempt to get, for once, something right, while functioning as…

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Review of The Boxtrolls (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Oct 2014

The stealth allegory of the insidious nature of gossip as a tool of domination, and the scathing class satire of misbegotten and socially unjust…

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Review of Fury (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Oct 2014

A throwback combat movie that offers tanks for the memories, along with vivid performances…

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Review of Citizenfour (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Oct 2014

A film every single American and, indeed, every world citizen should see and contemplate…

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Review of Dear White People (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Oct 2014

This intelligent, funny, articulately hyper-verbal campus comedy-drama...serves up tart satire…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Oct 2014

An indie Amadeus...it's the career-best performances by Simmons and Teller...that make Whiplash unforgettable…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Oct 2014

The crackpot Birdman on some level tells a relatable story of one person's attempt to get, for once, something right, while functioning as…

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Review of The Judge (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 Oct 2014

Runs on clichés and ultimately earns more credit for what it doesn't do...than for what it does…

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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 02 Oct 2014

Once the chaotic adult-fairy-tale elements override Fincher's otherwise meticulous style, one suspects this tawdry tale of marital fury signifies…

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Review of A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 25 Sep 2014

What’s best about A Walk Among the Tombstones is atmospheric...What’s worst about the film is its sense of generic luridness…

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Review of The Equalizer (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 25 Sep 2014

The star makes the film something like a guilty pleasure, but he and touches like the film-opening Mark Twain quotation form little more than…

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Review of My Old Lady (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 25 Sep 2014

How relevant or relatable viewers will find all this is questionable, but fans of the actors will take true pleasure in their tart verbal sparring…

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Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Sep 2014

The film may seem to be doing very little, but it evinces great sensitivity...as it explores a universal theme of dealing with life's unexpected…

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