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Review of Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 10 Aug 2016

Bergman's effortlessly poetic diary and letters provide more evidence, though patently unnecessary, of her artistic temperament, her lyrical…

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Review of Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 07 Aug 2016

A legitimately fascinating central character...Not surprisingly, Streep expertly shades every eccentricity, embodying Jenkins in her musical…

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Review of Don't Think Twice (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 01 Aug 2016

Pinpoints a creative community that's never been explored in a narrative film...its wistful, naturalistic presentation of a thirtysomething…

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Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 01 Aug 2016

A novel but muddled supervillain action movie...Some comic-book fans will lap it up, but Suicide Squad is all sauce and no meat…

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Review of Jason Bourne (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 26 Jul 2016

Terrified to do anything different (which, believe it or not, would be entirely possible)...it only takes a moment of awareness to step outside…

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Review of Nerve (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 26 Jul 2016

When this thriller has to turn the screws of its climax, its fundamental stupidity surfaces…

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Review of Star Trek Beyond (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Jul 2016

What works (marginally) in this instantly forgettable entry: a few diverting character moments...fan-serving fairy dust...action, action, action…

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Review of Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Jul 2016

The mammoths and their mammalian buddies...take direction from [a] lunatic weasel...to SAVE THE WORLD by DIVERTING THE PATH OF AN ASTEROID…

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Review of Captain Fantastic (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 18 Jul 2016

The film's saving graces are the uniformly strong performances...and its intriguing subject matter...[but it] develops third-act problems as…

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Review of Our Little Sister (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 17 Jul 2016

Moves at a rhythm akin to the gently lapping waves...yet somehow swiftly establishes the personalities of the three sisters, a contradiction…

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Review of The Infiltrator (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 Jul 2016

A sturdy but uninspired crime docudrama that's neither convincingly colloquial nor thrillingly stylish…

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Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 Jul 2016

Should you see Sony's new Ghostbusters remake? Yes. Yes, you should. Will you be entertained? Yes. Yes, you will…

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Review of Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Jul 2016

The fact that Mike and Dave will inevitably turn into a rom com blunts its potential as a black comedy of comeuppance for the titular jerks…

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Review of The Boss (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Jul 2016

Needlessly starting out on such a false, bombastic note emblematizes the film's mistake of blowing up the character past what made her recognizable,…

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Review of Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Jul 2016

Has more genuinely funny moments than most so-called comedies at the multiplex, abetted by Waititi's now-practiced comic sensibility, his stylized…

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Review of The Boss (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Jul 2016

Needlessly starting out on such a false, bombastic note emblematizes the film's mistake of blowing up the character past what made her recognizable,…

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Review of Central Intelligence (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 15 Jun 2016

Even if the material's not always up to the title's ironic reference to wit, the cast and their director carry the day with a good stock of laughs…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 14 Jun 2016

Largely lifeless, which is unusual for fantasy material birthed by Roald Dahl or directed by Steven Spielberg, much less a combination of the two…

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Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 13 Jun 2016

If the plotting at first feels overly familiar (and, in many ways, is), its elegance becomes apparent in the reinvigorating final movements,…

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Review of Now You See Me 2 (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 Jun 2016

Not only can the center not hold, but there is no center to begin with...The story mostly speeds along at an obnoxious rate and pitch, the…

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