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Review of Sleepwalk with Me (2012)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 01 Jan 2013

Even though the story does have its serious elements, it is very funny…

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Review of On The Road (2010)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 01 Jan 2013

It is a bunch of big, long, emotional, messy road trips…

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Review of How to Survive a Plague (2012)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 01 Jan 2013

The film is a tribute to political activism and the power of people to change the world…

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Review of Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 01 Jan 2013

To say Ai Weiwei is an interesting character is an understatement…

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Review of Django Unchained (2012)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 29 Dec 2012

A delightful mashup of blaxploitation films like 'Shaft' and spaghetti westerns like 'For a Few Dollars More…

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Review of Les Misérables (2012)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 29 Dec 2012

This is a mixed bag of a musical. The story, and characters, are great, but the music is lacking…

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Review of Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story (2012)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 23 Dec 2012

The film tells a story of another America which seems most primitive, foreign and far away now, but it was really not all that long ago in…

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Review of Hitchcock (2012)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 23 Dec 2012

It is probably worth some time in a movie like this to show that Hitchcock had a life other than just making movies…

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Review of Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 23 Dec 2012

This is a very slow-moving movie, but it also has its attractions, such as its beautiful cinematography by Gökhan Tiryaki, particularly the…

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Review of The Imposter (2012)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 23 Dec 2012

This documentary film, like 'Catfish' a couple of years ago, is about a clever impersonator, but 'The Impostor' is an even stranger and more…

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Review of This Is 40 (2012)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 21 Dec 2012

With this film, Apatow has gone beyond vulgar humor to explore the nature of love, marriage, parenthood and family relationships in some depth,…

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Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 17 Dec 2012

Despite its bloated length and meandering plot, this is still an enjoyable production, at least for fans of Peter Jackson, Middle Earth and…

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Review of The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 10 Dec 2012

This profound story of love and friendship is apparently fiction, but it sure comes across with the power of a true story…

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Review of Jack & Diane (2012)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 10 Dec 2012

Let's see, monsters, internal organs with hair snaking through them, blood, teeth falling out after a kiss, vomiting, suicide over a broken…

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Review of The Good Doctor (2011)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 10 Dec 2012

After watching this film you should be doubly determined to stay away from hospitals…

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Review of The House I Live In (2012)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 10 Dec 2012

What this film argues, pretty convincingly, is that the war on drugs is much worse than a failure. It argues that it is tearing our society apart…

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Review of I Wish (2011)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 10 Dec 2012

It is rare to find a coming of age film that reflects childhood in an accurate way, let alone one that combines this with such enjoyable whimsy,…

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Review of A Royal Affair (2012)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 10 Dec 2012

The characters in the story are interesting, even if they are not quite as interesting as the historical people on which the characters in…

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Review of Marley (2012)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 10 Dec 2012

Concert footage includes some of Bob Marley's best-known songs, Get Up, Stand Up, I Shot the Sheriff, No Woman, No Cry, One Love and many others…

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Review of The House I Live In (1957)

By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 10 Dec 2012

What this film argues, pretty convincingly, is that the war on drugs is much worse than a failure. It argues that it is tearing our society apart…

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