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Review of Best Man Down (2012)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 14 Oct 2013

When your film's most compelling character dies in the first five minutes, your film has a problem…

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Review of Captain Phillips (2013)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 10 Oct 2013

It's not just the camera that shakes you up…

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Review of Escape from Tomorrow (2013)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 10 Oct 2013

You feel like you want to support the sheer guts it took to make this film, even if you wish it could have been better…

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Review of Gravity (2013)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 03 Oct 2013

As an experience of pure cinema, an appreciation of its ability to show terrible and wonderful things, I can't think of its equal in 2013…

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Review of Short Term 12 (2013)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 02 Oct 2013

It's one of those performances, like Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene, where a young actress comes seemingly out of nowhere and…

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Review of Thanks for Sharing (2013)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 19 Sep 2013

Blomberg balances the light and dark well, and if the film goes into the familiar places we expect from addiction dramas, it does so with realism…

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Review of Hannah Arendt (2012)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 18 Sep 2013

It's both an amazing piece of impersonation and a subtle, canny performance that suggests the sharpness of Arendt's thinking…

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Review of Austenland (2013)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 12 Sep 2013

Diehard Jane Austen fans might see Austenland as something of an abomination. Lighten up, Darcy…

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Review of Adoration (2013)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 05 Sep 2013

This Australian film is a total MILF (Melodrama I'd Like to Forget)…

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Review of Prince Avalanche (2013)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 29 Aug 2013

If Waiting for Godot was about the eternal, existential paralysis of life, Avalanche is more hopeful, suggesting that we can move forward -…

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Review of Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 29 Aug 2013

While he wears his '70s filmmaking influences on his sleeves, Saints is no pastiche, but an eloquent mood piece that leaves room for improvisation…

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Review of In a World... (2013)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 28 Aug 2013

Lean in, Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg famously advised women this year. To which Lake Bell would add, Speak up…

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Review of The World's End (2013)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 22 Aug 2013

Between these films and Scott Pilgrim Versus the World, Wright has become very deft at using genre conventions to illustrate the human comedy…

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Review of Blue Jasmine (2013)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 22 Aug 2013

If Allen is outside his element in San Francisco, so is his heroine Jasmine (Cate Blanchett), and the result is one of the nerviest, freshest…

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Review of The Spectacular Now (2013)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 22 Aug 2013

I think the fact that these lovers are teenagers is a bit of a distraction…

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Review of The Act of Killing (2012)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 21 Aug 2013

By turning murder into performance, The Act of Killing dramatizes the perverted hearts of these men, the twisted mental leaps they needed to…

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Review of Love Is All You Need? (2011)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 15 Aug 2013

I think Bier might be a little too acute an observer of human behavior to agree with the simple premise of her film's title, but she makes…

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Review of Paranoia (2013)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 15 Aug 2013

It's like one of those cheap knockoff phones you might buy on a streetcorner in Manhattan -- the IPhoen 5″ of thrillers…

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Review of Paranoia (2013)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 15 Aug 2013

It's like one of those cheap knockoff phones you might buy on a streetcorner in Manhattan -- the IPhoen 5″ of thrillers…

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Review of Love Is All You Need (2012)

By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 15 Aug 2013

I think Bier might be a little too acute an observer of human behavior to agree with the simple premise of her film's title, but she makes…

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