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Movie Reviews by Simon Abrams - Page 31 of 37

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Review of Allegiance (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Dec 2012

Without its topical pretext and overzealous patriotism, Allegiance would be just another generic action film…

Review of Sahkanaga (2011)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Dec 2012

What Summerour doesn't capture as well are the panic and emotional upheaval that Paul's poems and tentative interactions with Lyla only hint…

Review of Deadfall (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Dec 2012

There are hints of a fun, trashy film beneath the surface, but that film is always subservient to the dull one Dean and Ruzowitzky were more…

Review of Ex-Girlfriends (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Nov 2012

The callow behavior that characterizes Ex-Girlfriends' lead would be less maddening had writer/director/star Alexander Poe firmly decided how…

Review of The Normals (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Nov 2012

When everybody finally accepts that they've been experiencing a prolonged, semi-self-inflicted meltdown, Ciancimino and director Kevin Patrick…

Review of Shady Lady (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Nov 2012

Too many Wiki-worthy info dumps and not enough character-enriching detail stops Shady Lady, a docudrama about a team of World War II Australian…

Review of The Other Son (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Oct 2012

Ham-fisted dialogue and clichéd characterizations trump genuine chemistry in The Other Son, a contrived Franco-Israeli drama about two 18-year-olds,…

Review of Excuse Me for Living (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Oct 2012

No strand of Excuse Me for Living's frantic, unfunny, and pseudo-thoughtful narrative is well conceived…

Review of An Affair of the Heart (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Oct 2012

An Affair of the Heart's focus is so vaguely sketched out that it ultimately could be about any grateful artist who enjoys a modicum of celebrity…

Review of Least Among Saints (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Oct 2012

There's nothing but skin-deep warmth to Least Among Saints, a film in which any authority figure who can't magically sober up and play surrogate…

Review of Dredd (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Sep 2012

Dredd is proudly degenerate - and it never feels compelled to slow down and explain itself…

Review of Somewhere Between (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Aug 2012

Knowlton never delves far enough into her subjects' stories for Somewhere Between to feel more nuanced than, say, a good commercial for international…

Review of Cosmopolis (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Aug 2012

Everything matters in Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, but not everything is necessarily the same as DeLillo's book…

Review of Why Stop Now? (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Aug 2012

An unbearable 90-minute trip with a trio of loud, needy egotists…

Review of Hope Springs (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2012

Jones and Streep give likable enough performances as a humane monster and a human victim. But their characters never become more than that…

Review of Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (2011)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Jul 2012

The film's protests of censorship ring hollow given its selective version of the truth…

Review of Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Jul 2012

James Murphy never says that his music will sound different after LCD Soundsystem disbands, so why fearfully anticipate a change that we don't…

Review of Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 May 2012

Something like a trippy grindhouse homage whose familiar images are refracted through a prism of blacklight posters, Jodorowsky films, and…

Review of Smashed (2012)

By Simon Abrams (730) for House Next Door (153) on 23 Jan 2012

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul only serve to highlight everything that the rest of James Ponsoldt's film sorely lacks…

Review of Ra.One (2011)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Oct 2011

But all the charm in the world wouldn't make Ra.One's sanctimoniousness seem any more genuine…

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Simon Abrams has written reviews for:

Village Voice (8,525)
Slant Magazine (8,298)
Chicago Sun-Times (7,580)
Time Out (7,510)
RogerEbert.com (5,563)
Guardian (4,584)
The Playlist (3,871)
TheWrap (3,203)
The Guardian (2,969)
NPR (1,713)

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