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Review of Kelly & Cal (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for TheWrap (3,203) on 21 Aug 2014

It's a film that takes its characters and their crises seriously, allowing them to fully explore their situation before providing them (and…

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Review of The Signal (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for TheWrap (3,203) on 27 May 2014

Although the film's ultimate payoff feels a little too big, and too insufficiently explained, to justify all of the obfuscation that led up…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for The Verge (432) on 29 Apr 2014

While an improvement over its 2012 predecessor, director Marc Webb's follow-up is…

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Review of The Art of the Steal (2013)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for The Playlist (3,871) on 20 Apr 2014

The Art of the Steal won’t trick audiences into thinking they’ve seen anything new, but it’s just clever enough to keep them distracted…

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Review of Transcendence (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for CBR (174) on 17 Apr 2014

Transcendence is alternately thoughtful and theatrical in too many of the wrong places, as its tale of artificial intelligence gone wrong offers…

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Review of Cuban Fury (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for CBR (174) on 09 Apr 2014

Cuban Fury is a fun routine where it's the audience, not the performer, who's counting the steps, knowing exactly where they're going long…

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Review of Rio 2 (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for CBR (174) on 09 Apr 2014

A shamelessly uninspired follow-up, Rio 2 is just plain tedious - a boring, overly familiar pastiche of sitcom problems, acted out by annoying…

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Review of Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for ToddGilchrist.com (9) on 09 Apr 2014

Only Lovers Left Alive is at its most powerful, and beautiful, when it's concentrating on how the search for immortality, or life's meaning,…

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Review of Oculus (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for TheWrap (3,203) on 01 Apr 2014

Flanagan finds both humanity and horror in the story of two siblings who reunite to exorcise a possessed mirror, but the film's uneven metaphorical…

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Review of Oculus (2013)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for TheWrap (3,203) on 01 Apr 2014

Flanagan finds both humanity and horror in the story of two siblings who reunite to exorcise a possessed mirror, but the film's uneven metaphorical…

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Review of The Raid 2 (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for CBR (174) on 28 Mar 2014

A sweeping, Shakespearean opus that expands and deepens what the writer-director accomplished in The Raid…

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Review of Noah (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for CBR (174) on 28 Mar 2014

Given its visual splendor and epic sweep, Noah might have been a terrific 3D movie, but that would have given the film's landscape two more…

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Review of Noah (2015)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for CBR (174) on 28 Mar 2014

Given its visual splendor and epic sweep, Noah might have been a terrific 3D movie, but that would have given the film's landscape two more…

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Review of Cesar Chavez (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for TheWrap (3,203) on 26 Mar 2014

Cesar Chavez embodies the quiet efficacy of its namesake without resorting to the bombastic theatricality he himself avoided…

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Review of Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Mar 2014

For a movie that insists that sequels are never better than their predecessors, Muppets Most Wanted at least suggests it’s possible for them…

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Review of Divergent (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Mar 2014

Because there’s some genuinely great ideas in the film, and some terrific character work, but it’s given such uneven attention, alternately…

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Review of The Single Moms Club (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for ScreenCrush (954) on 14 Mar 2014

A stacked deck of one-dimensional demonstrations of female oppression, explored - and overcome - with Perry's typically well-intentioned but…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for GeekNation (86) on 07 Mar 2014

A vivid, multilayered story of history and fantasy, fiction and emotional truth, which only falters when it ventures too close to events whose…

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Review of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for CBR (174) on 06 Mar 2014

Mr…

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Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for TheWrap (3,203) on 03 Mar 2014

Rise of an Empire lacks director Snyder's shrewd deconstruction of cartoonish hagiography, undermining the glorious, robust escapism of testosterone-fueled…

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