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Review of Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 24 Mar 2013

Monsieur Verdoux can boast a screenplay with a highly unusual moral complexity and a deeply philosophical bent...Yes, Verdoux is a film that…

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Review of On the Road (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Mar 2013

This pretty period-pictorial companion piece to the novel fatally misses out on the brain-firing raw buzz that Kerouac felt and passed on to…

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Review of On the Road (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Mar 2013

This pretty period-pictorial companion piece to the novel fatally misses out on the brain-firing raw buzz that Kerouac felt and passed on to…

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Review of On The Road (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Mar 2013

This pretty period-pictorial companion piece to the novel fatally misses out on the brain-firing raw buzz that Kerouac felt and passed on to…

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Review of The Croods (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Mar 2013

Appears to have been market-tested to within an inch of its life, so despite a theme of finding the capacity to evolve, the picture remains…

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Review of On The Road (2010)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Mar 2013

This pretty period-pictorial companion piece to the novel fatally misses out on the brain-firing raw buzz that Kerouac felt and passed on to…

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Review of Stoker (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 16 Mar 2013

Park’s skills for surreal subjectivity and the mischievously weird certainly don’t hurt, but they can’t quite banish Stoker’s narrative…

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Review of Emperor (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Mar 2013

The mealy half-truth director Peter Webber...screenwriters Vera Blasi and David Klass settle for just winds up a waste of everyone's time…

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Review of No (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Mar 2013

Swims upstream against high-definition with a defiantly lo-fi approach that's also ingeniously evocative of the historical period…

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Review of Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Mar 2013

Oz the Great and Powerful gets saved from the junk heap by Franco and especially by director Sam Raimi, who happily treats the enterprise as…

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Review of A Star Is Born (1976)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 25 Feb 2013

While in its romantic and romanticized particulars, this A Star Is Born can often seem silly, hoary, disjointed or meandering, the essence…

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Review of The Gatekeepers (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 21 Feb 2013

The 'other' Oscar-nominated feature about a war on terror, Dror Moreh's documentary The Gatekeepers proves more intellectually engaging than…

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Review of Our Man Flint (1966)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 20 Feb 2013

To the extent that Our Man Flint works, it does so due to its tossed-off wit...and the sheer oddity of Coburn, the toothy, gangly character…

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Review of In Like Flint (1967)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 20 Feb 2013

It's a shame that In Like Flint plays as such a defensive reaction to on-the-rise American feminism...in most other respects, it's a worthy-enough…

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Review of Deathtrap (1982)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Feb 2013

It would be criminal to reveal how the plot unfolds, other than to say it's impressive dramatic origami, manipulated deftly by an ideal cast…

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Review of Safe Haven (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 15 Feb 2013

Does Sparks have to treat people like total idiots...?...[A] soulless-cash-grab…

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Review of Identity Thief (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Feb 2013

McCarthy is a worthy successor to John Candy, who also had a gift for warming up caricatures with loveable humanity…

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Review of Quartet (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 23 Jan 2013

Doesn't avoid all of the traps of the genre, but Hoffman does show good taste, particularly in casting…

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Review of Rust and Bone (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 17 Jan 2013

Has significant blemishes that don't quite come out in the wash...but the picture persists on the strength of its committed performances…

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Review of Gangster Squad (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 10 Jan 2013

The sheer bulk of talent involved (top-tier technicians and designers included) turns out to be a case of water, water everywhere, and not…

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