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Review of The Grandmaster (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Wong Kar Wai's latest film is by turns elegant and frustrating, beautiful and hard to track, sumptuous and spartan…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

There's something dispiriting about a filmmaker who does his best to be utterly faithful to the words on the page, but doesn't seem to recognize…

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Review of The Expendables 3 (2014)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Is The Expendables 3 any good? In its own way, I suppose…

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Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Exodus is rarely boring, but it lacks gravitas compared to its predecessors…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

It's about the social utility of sociopathy, about the refusal to fret over self-esteem or hurt feelings or mental or physical pain in the…

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Review of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

A moving tale of heroism and sacrifice wrapped in an explosive package that will quicken your pulse…

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Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Eva Green delights as the cunning Artemesia, so dominating every scene she's in that Empire almost feels as if it is her story rather than…

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Review of The Family (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Those excited for the return of Besson to the action-comedy game likely will come away disappointed from this jumbled, visually bland effort…

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Review of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

If one watches this film and thinks Scorsese has crafted it to exculpate rather than expose the behavior of Jordan Belfort…

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Review of Bridge of Spies (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Bridge of Spies is a bit overstuffed and full of itself, but it is competently made, a little exciting and a little funny and a little, well, little…

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Review of The Martian (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Director Ridley Scott and screenwriter Drew Goddard have managed to turn a series of math equations into exciting filmed entertainment…

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Review of Pacific Rim (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Pacific Rim may work best in its smaller moments, a testament to director Guillermo del Toro's ability to build worlds…

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Review of Gravity (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Gravity is less a feature film than cinema as experience: a new frontier in filmmaking that will appeal to studios trying to attract people…

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Review of G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Retaliation takes itself about as seriously as it should. Which is to say, not very…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Christopher McQuarrie's latest proves he's one of the best filmmakers working today…

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Review of High-Rise (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

High-Rise is a bit of a mess, bloated and meandering. As far as meandering, bloated messes go, however, High-Rise has its moments…

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Review of The Lone Ranger (1956)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

The Lone Ranger is a weird mixture of daffy slapstick and deadly seriousness…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

There's a slightly darker edge to The Grand Budapest Hotel than Anderson's previous efforts…

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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

The latest effort by director David Fincher to suss out the meaning of modern American life…

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Review of Everest (2015)

By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

This is a tale of hubris and tragedy, a reminder that pushing oneself solely for the point of pushing oneself is not a particularly good use…

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