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Review of Greetings from Tim Buckley (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 27 Nov 2013

Full of songs from both Buckleys, the film, directed by Daniel Algrant, underplays the daddy-issue cliches while also staying away from a typical…

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Review of Nebraska (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 21 Nov 2013

Great work by Dern, but I don't understand the director's need to denigrate Midwestern and/or lower-class people, and depict them as a tribe…

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Review of Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 15 Nov 2013

A very strong rendering of a fascinating, historically under-told true story. But it's driven into the stratosphere by the two main performances…

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Review of The Best Man Holiday (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 14 Nov 2013

Is it broad and cliched? Yes, and it's not nearly as fresh as the original. But I still very much enjoyed it…

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Review of Let the Fire Burn (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 31 Oct 2013

Comes at the material in a fascinating, counterintuitive way. Powerful and heartbreaking…

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Review of Paraíso (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 20 Oct 2013

An intriguing premise, but the execution is a bit faulty, and it doesn't ultimately add up to much…

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Review of Paradise (2011)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 20 Oct 2013

An intriguing premise, but the execution is a bit faulty, and it doesn't ultimately add up to much…

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Review of 12 Years a Slave (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 20 Oct 2013

Stands a good chance of ending up the definitive American film about slavery…

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Review of Paraíso (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 20 Oct 2013

An intriguing premise, but the execution is a bit faulty, and it doesn't ultimately add up to much…

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Review of All Is Lost (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 20 Oct 2013

I ultimately admired it more as a high degree-of-difficulty achievement than as a film…

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Review of Paradise (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 20 Oct 2013

An intriguing premise, but the execution is a bit faulty, and it doesn't ultimately add up to much…

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Review of The Fifth Estate (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 16 Oct 2013

Emphasizes parts of the story that aren't all that interesting, while soft-pedaling or leaving out all together a lot of the best parts…

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Review of Machete Kills (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 09 Oct 2013

Machete Kills runs its one joke into the ground, murders it, and murders it again and again…

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Review of Captain Phillips (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 09 Oct 2013

This is a tense, exciting, standout film, which I enjoyed a great deal more than I expected…

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Review of Gravity (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 02 Oct 2013

Both a claustrophobic suspense thriller and a searing, emotional drama at the same time. And all along, it's absolutely gorgeous…

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Review of Parkland (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 02 Oct 2013

Takes one of the most fascinating days in American history, and makes it deathly boring…

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Review of Don Jon (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 26 Sep 2013

Funny at times and touches on some interesting issues. But the Jersey caricature is so embarrassing that it ultimately sinks the film…

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Review of Prisoners (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 18 Sep 2013

Great acting, in the service of a plot that keeps getting more ridiculous. I was with it until the snakes…

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Review of Short Term 12 (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 28 Aug 2013

It could have been smug, exploitative or politically self-righteous but it's none- it's one of the year's most powerful films…

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Review of Drinking Buddies (2013)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 28 Aug 2013

A deliberative, slow-moving, but still very winning comedy/drama, driven by a couple of very strong performances…

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