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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 29 Jul 2014

A summer comic-book movie that effortlessly makes you feel like a wide-eyed, happy kid again…

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Review of Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 22 Jul 2014

In the overall Allen pantheon, Magic in the Moonlight falls somewhere in the middle. There is enough to recommend it…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Jul 2014

Boyhood is a cinematic gift, a compassionate and sometimes amusing drama about growing up that extracts truths out of what appear to be life's…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Jul 2014

Boyhood is a cinematic gift, a compassionate and sometimes amusing drama about growing up that extracts truths out of what appear to be life's…

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Review of Tammy (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Jun 2014

Tammy is all over the map. But mostly in a good way…

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Review of Violette (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 24 Jun 2014

Few films have conveyed with such understanding about how a creative soul taps into all that interior turmoil and then somehow shape these…

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Review of The Rover (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Jun 2014

The scarcity of expository background took me a few minutes to adjust to…

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Review of 22 Jump Street (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 10 Jun 2014

22 Jump Street realizes its main goal is to be ridiculously fun and that to do so it must be utterly ridiculous, as well as in on the joke…

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Review of The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 03 Jun 2014

Wise and sometimes funny, delicately reminding us to live and love honestly and fully, while we all still have that gift…

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Review of Cold in July (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 27 May 2014

These unique characters and performances breathe life into the moody world Mickle creates in this vivid, shocking thriller that sticks with…

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Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 20 May 2014

Days of Future Past toys with history, but stays true to its outsider roots, expressing them with conviction and a sense of narrative sure-footedness…

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Review of Palo Alto (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 May 2014

While Palo Alto might not point the teen genre into revolutionary new directions, it does achieve a major goal: Putting its talented filmmaker…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 29 Apr 2014

You sense a struggle playing out on the screen, as the movie tries too hard to please comic book fans, to one-up the action of the first film…

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Review of Transcendence (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 15 Apr 2014

While its discussions about supercomputers, transcendence and god complexes send red flags flying about the near future, the story's mainframe…

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Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Mar 2014

It advances the story and respects mythos of its comic book creations, yet isn't averse to taking risks and moving it into bolder directions…

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Review of Divergent (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 20 Mar 2014

For a film about a defiant young heroine discovering she's a renegade nonconformist at heart, Divergent sure colors within the lines of the…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 11 Mar 2014

A sobering message movie that still know hows to tickle us with a goofy ski chase that is joyously and purely Wes Anderson through and through…

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Review of Son of God (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 26 Feb 2014

What this well-intentioned film lacks in poise and polish, it makes up for in what faith-based audiences so hungrily seek: a passionate and…

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Review of About Last Night (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 12 Feb 2014

In a genre that avoids risk-taking, About Last Night is a breath of fresh air, a fun date movie that is as satisfying -- at least temporarily…

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Review of The Monuments Men (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 Feb 2014

The Monuments Men has many good intentions. It's just unfortunate that it didn't have more spirit and a steady sense of what it should be…

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