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Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Dec 2012

Zero Dark Thirty stands to become the dominant narrative about this important historical event, no matter its distortions, composites, or other…

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Review of The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for NPR (1,713) on 13 Dec 2012

The lesson at the core of Goethe's poem -- that powerful spirits are not to be taken lightly, and should only be conjured by those who can…

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Review of Glory Road (2006)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Dec 2012

Glory Road treats history as if it were a 7th-grade social-studies text laid out in a 16-point font, getting the basics right without trying…

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Review of Save the Date (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Dec 2012

Save The Date's achievements are modest - it could be funnier and more affecting, and it ends with a shrug - but the film is wise about sibling…

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Review of Lay the Favorite (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for NPR (1,713) on 07 Dec 2012

Adapted from a comic thriller by Carl Hiaasen, South Florida's day-glo answer to Elmore Leonard, the film missed the fizzy, beach-friendly…

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Review of Playing for Keeps (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Dec 2012

The film is a bedroom farce without the farce, a fish-out-of-water comedy on sun-cracked lake-bed, a story of fatherly redemption that barely…

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Review of Tchoupitoulas (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 05 Dec 2012

A hypnotic 80-minute drift through nocturnal New Orleans that seeks more to pick up on bits of culture and atmosphere than to tell any stories…

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Review of Intimate Strangers (2004)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Dec 2012

The film insightfully probes into the things that are said and the intense feelings that are merely implied, buzzing at a low level just beneath…

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Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 29 Nov 2012

For a genre film, Killing Them Softly goes to an awfully strange, none-too-subtle place, but the choice to move the '08 election from background…

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Review of I Spit on Your Grave (2010)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Nov 2012

Not surprisingly, the remake gussies up the grindhouse roughness of the first film, which makes it relatively more palatable-yet still vapid…

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Review of Hitchcock (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 22 Nov 2012

Making his feature debut, director Sacha Gervasi follows up his fine documentary Anvil: The Story Of Anvil with another story about the perils…

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Review of Rust and Bone (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 22 Nov 2012

It says something that Audiard's killer whale movie stages its most emotional moment to a Katy Perry song and still deserves to be taken seriously…

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Review of Red Dawn (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 21 Nov 2012

Red Dawn without the jingoism is like a pie without the filling - it collapses into splintered mush…

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Review of The Losers (2010)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Nov 2012

There isn’t a whiff of humility or self-deprecation to Clay, Roque, Jensen, Cougar, and Pooch, a collection of black-ops douchebags and our…

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 15 Nov 2012

It's the perfect material for Russell, who not only deals perceptively with the dizzying swings of manic depression, but makes it the fabric…

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Review of Price Check (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for NPR (1,713) on 15 Nov 2012

Posey dominates Price Check, mostly for the better: Whatever observations Walker's film makes about the perils of ambition or women in the…

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Review of The Conversation (1974)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 12 Nov 2012

Like Antonioni, Coppola was wrestling with the properties of his chosen medium and showing how art can conceal and deceive as much as it can…

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Review of The Comedy (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 08 Nov 2012

There's genuine pain at the core of Heidecker's character - or at least a numbness where the pain used to reside - but the film is keen on…

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Review of Starlet (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for NPR (1,713) on 08 Nov 2012

Starlet shows enough of her unbalanced, unsustainable situation to make sense of her connection to Sadie, however frail a ballast her new friend…

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Review of Dangerous Liaisons (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 08 Nov 2012

It's all just window-dressing: pretty, but substance-free…

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