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Review of Despicable Me 2 (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Jun 2013

While it isn't as touching or as exuberantly funny as the original, it's a cute summer diversion for kids with just enough wink-wink slyness…

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Review of White House Down (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 25 Jun 2013

Fails to deliver on the campaign promise that it will be as fun as the original Die Hard…

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Review of This Is the End (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 09 Jun 2013

You never know exactly what lunacy lurks around the corner, or just how far Rogen and Goldberg will push the R rating to its limit…

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Review of What Maisie Knew (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 03 Jun 2013

On the surface, this indie does sound like standard-issue material, but its dynamics are far more complex than its simple exterior…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 07 May 2013

It is DiCaprio who really burrows into the soul and the marrow of a classic. Luhrmann just grazes it…

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Review of Oblivion (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Apr 2013

The mix of gee-whiz gadgetry and the day-to-day routineness of Jack and Victoria's lives is interesting enough, but the film is too glacially…

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Review of Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 20 Mar 2013

There's no reason to overthink this. Just leave your brain at the lobby and enjoy 2013's most entertaining thriller yet…

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Review of Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 08 Mar 2013

Oz the Great and Powerful is entirely serviceable family entertainment…

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Review of Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 28 Feb 2013

This grotesque world is imaginatively, magically rendered with heavy stone architecture and a dreary lack of adornment…

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Review of Side Effects (2015)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 07 Feb 2013

A doozy of a Hitchcockian thriller with Jude Law, Rooney Mara and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Effects is a go-for-broke valentine to '80s cinematic…

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Review of Side Effects (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 07 Feb 2013

A doozy of a Hitchcockian thriller with Jude Law, Rooney Mara and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Effects is a go-for-broke valentine to '80s cinematic…

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Review of Gangster Squad (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 09 Jan 2013

As they'd say back in the day: Sweetheart, give me rewrite…

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Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 28 Nov 2012

The scenes between Pitt and Gandolfini are the highlights of Killing, with the two actors pivoting off each other with the ease and precision…

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Review of Life of Pi (2012)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 19 Nov 2012

With Life of Pi, Lee outdoes himself visually, without a doubt setting a new standard for 3-D, a technology Hollywood has mostly abused with…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 15 Nov 2012

Rather than repeat past mistakes by handling author Stephenie Meyer's supernatural love story with kid gloves, this Twilight cuts loose and…

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 14 Nov 2012

Playbook walks a tightrope in how it portrays mental illness -- deriving humor out of its characters' actions while demonstrating just how…

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Review of The Waiting Room (2012)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 17 Oct 2012

The Waiting Room doesn't have [the] answers, but it does tap into the heart and soul of what's so critically at stake…

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Review of Argo (2012)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 08 Oct 2012

Affleck captures not just the way we looked and acted during this era, but vividly brings history to life…

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Review of Frankenweenie (2012)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 01 Oct 2012

If dark and twisted is how you like your Burton movies, you're in luck…

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Review of Looper (2012)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 26 Sep 2012

Looper is a superior genre film, an engrossing thriller that engages not only the senses, but our minds as well, just as good sci-fi should do…

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