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Review of Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 16 Aug 2012

A kinder, gentler divorce comedy...Jones' commitment to portraying Celeste at least as much for her flaws as her strengths winds up making…

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Review of High Time (1960)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 15 Aug 2012

Plays dated these days, though what now seems like a pitch straight down the middle probably seemed more like a screwball fifty-two years ago…

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Review of Killer Joe (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Aug 2012

Friedkin's pretty shrewd himself, in how he teases out the humor without indulging Letts' immature glibness, and how he sidesteps Bible Belt…

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Review of The Watch (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Aug 2012

According to an old showbiz saw, the key to comedy is timing. Well, the new big-budget sci-fi comedy The Watch has a problem there…

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Review of The Bourne Legacy (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Aug 2012

Just remember, kids, you're not paranoid if they're really out to get you...or your movie dollars…

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Review of Full Metal Jacket (1987)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 05 Aug 2012

Kubrick again turns his unsparing eye to the dread of existence...of a godless universe...of moral frailty and civilization gone wrong...[Blu-ray]…

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Review of Ruby Sparks (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 02 Aug 2012

In a time of mind-numbing rom coms, Ruby Sparks uses fantasy to get real about modern romance…

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Review of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 02 Aug 2012

Even for an episodic kiddie farce, Dog Days seems overly familiar in its comic premises (oh no! peeing in the municipal pool…

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Review of In Darkness (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 25 Jul 2012

With straits at least as dire as those in The Diary of Anne Frank (and moral dimensions far more murky), In Darkness deals with survival at…

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Review of The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 16 Jul 2012

The Nolans consider the issues of the day...explore the role of legendary heroes (from Robin Hood to Batman and Robin) in galvanizing the public,…

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Review of The Intouchables (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 12 Jul 2012

With its brash humor and emotional generosity, The Intouchables has crowd-pleaser written all over it, but there's no mistaking the queasy…

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Review of Take This Waltz (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 04 Jul 2012

Polley’s fearlessness is one of many reasons I take no pleasure in saying that Take This Waltz stumbles…

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Review of Home on the Range (2004)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 04 Jul 2012

This bouncy Western musical-comedy adventure is long enough on charm, but wisely short and sweet at 76 minutes…

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Review of Treasure Planet (2002)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 04 Jul 2012

The awkward trappings of this Disney adventure mechanize and blunt the tale's humanity…

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Review of Savages (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 04 Jul 2012

Oliver Stone, bless 'im, still believes in red-meat cinema…

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Review of Sadgati (1981)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 02 Jul 2012

Boorman's interpretation of the material resulted in an American cinematic classic built not only on shock and awe, but emotional subtlety. [Blu-ray]…

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Review of Deliverance (1972)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 02 Jul 2012

Boorman's interpretation of the material resulted in an American cinematic classic built not only on shock and awe, but emotional subtlety. [Blu-ray]…

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Review of Evita (1996)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 01 Jul 2012

A pretty much ideal big-screen adaptation of the material, which becomes convincingly cinematic. [Blu-ray]…

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Review of Evita (2009)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 01 Jul 2012

A pretty much ideal big-screen adaptation of the material, which becomes convincingly cinematic. [Blu-ray]…

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Review of Barbarella (1968)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 28 Jun 2012

Clearly inspired by 1960s Batmania, the hunka hunka burning camp that is Barbarella adapted French science-fiction comic books into gleefully…

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