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Review of The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 14 Nov 2016

As the film gambols toward its inevitable fiery climax, it gets sloppier and sloppier with its storytelling and political restraint…

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Review of The Jungle Book (2016)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 14 Nov 2016

Favreau's film, virtually entirely CGI save for a human child lead, is a serviceable mix of action, computer-provided visual splendor, Disney-approved…

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Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 14 Nov 2016

The Force Awakens takes its legions of rabid fanboys very seriously, throwing them meaty bone after bone…

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Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 14 Nov 2016

This Squad is just another example of DC/Warner Bros. arriving late to their own party, and forgetting to bring the wine…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 14 Nov 2016

For a while there, something magical was brewing…

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Review of Dionne Copland's Inferno (2016)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 14 Nov 2016

It's like watching someone else playing a video game -- it looks like it might be fun from a distance, but that's as close as you're allowed to get…

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Review of Pete's Dragon (2016)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 14 Nov 2016

Based loosely on the original film, the plot harks back to a kind of simpler time, with far fewer entanglements and extraneous story details…

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Review of Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 14 Nov 2016

Emotional depth aside, the film is also gorgeous, with glowing evening light filtering off of the characters' faces, and beautiful renderings…

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Review of The Light Between Oceans (2016)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 14 Nov 2016

[Cianfrance] relentlessly tries to push the film's tropes and metaphors into something bigger and more powerful than they need to be, which…

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Review of Arrival (2016)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 14 Nov 2016

Whether [Villeneuve's] forbidding worldview will strike you as an achingly realistic drama or an overly angsty downer largely depends upon…

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Review of Deepwater Horizon (2016)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 14 Nov 2016

The film benefits from this attention to detail and refusal to follow prescribed dramatic flourishes…

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Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 14 Nov 2016

For all the film's noise, and thrumming violence, it's pretty hard to care very much about either principal hero…

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Review of Inferno (2016)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 14 Nov 2016

It's like watching someone else playing a video game -- it looks like it might be fun from a distance, but that's as close as you're allowed to get…

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Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 08 Jun 2016

It doesn't help that the form of fright the demon employs is more or less that of a standard Scooby-Doo villain…

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Review of Dheepan (2015)

By Piers Marchant (131) for PopMatters (2,617) on 13 Apr 2016

Certainly, many movies feature climactic scenes of barbarity, but the best ones prepare viewers for what's to come, whether obviously or subtly…

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Review of Backcountry (2015)

By Piers Marchant (131) for PopMatters (2,617) on 03 Jan 2016

The film's main source of anxiety remains the lone, terrified figure, thoroughly unprepared for the savage beast who attacks, and faced at…

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Review of Inside Out (2015)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 08 Dec 2015

I can't guarantee you will enjoy the same sweetly bonding experience with your own kids, and/or loved ones, but I can tell you with some certainty…

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Review of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

By Piers Marchant (131) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 01 Oct 2015

As hard as it tries to engage with us, the film never quite works…

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Review of Z for Zachariah (2015)

By Piers Marchant (131) for PopMatters (2,617) on 19 Aug 2015

The tension escalates until it bleeds inevitably into violence, but it is indeed a supremely depressing notion that even if there are only…

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Review of Z for Zachariah (1984)

By Piers Marchant (131) for PopMatters (2,617) on 19 Aug 2015

The tension escalates until it bleeds inevitably into violence, but it is indeed a supremely depressing notion that even if there are only…

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