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Review of In the Family (2011)

By Brian Juergens (209) for AfterElton.com (45) on 21 Jun 2012

More than just a carefully-crafted exercise in naturalism and restraint - Family is a beautiful, bold, and staggeringly moving film…

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Review of Battleship (2012)

By Brian Juergens (209) for AfterElton.com (45) on 17 May 2012

A deafening, seizure-inducing, patently ridiculous full-length military ad co-directed by Michael Bay and a trash compactor…

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Review of Dark Shadows (2012)

By Brian Juergens (209) for AfterElton.com (45) on 17 May 2012

By refusing to go either full-on melodrama or pure sendup, they've sentenced the original show's characters to an eternity of being upstaged…

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Review of Struck by Lightning (2013)

By Brian Juergens (209) for AfterElton.com (45) on 17 May 2012

An unexpectedly serious-minded comedy that sets itself apart from other teen fare by tackling adolescent ambition without the safety net of…

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Review of Going Down in La-La Land (2011)

By Brian Juergens (209) for AfterElton.com (45) on 19 Apr 2012

Going Down doesn't stray far from the Hollywood Cautionary Tale formula - but credit for making a downward spiral feel as gritty as a mid-afternoon…

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Review of The Iron Lady (2011)

By Brian Juergens (209) for AfterElton.com (45) on 13 Jan 2012

As a biography, it's a ridiculous mess - but as entertainment, this bizarre jukebox biopic built around the expectedly brilliant Streep is…

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Review of Shame (2011)

By Brian Juergens (209) for AfterElton.com (45) on 02 Dec 2011

A handsome movie about a handsome guy with serious issues and a Platinum card. It's kind of like American Psycho without the body count…

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Review of Making the Boys (2011)

By Brian Juergens (209) for AfterElton.com (45) on 22 Nov 2011

An entertaining and compelling reason to either reconsider the polarizing work or to experience it for the first time with due regard for its…

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Review of J. Edgar (2011)

By Brian Juergens (209) for AfterElton.com (45) on 11 Nov 2011

Two hours spent with the man are such a chore that it's hard to imagine why lifelong confidants Tolson and Gandy suffered his toxic, rapid-fire…

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Review of A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)

By Brian Juergens (209) for AfterElton.com (45) on 04 Nov 2011

Would it be too much to ask for an all-NPH spinoff? I think he's more than earned it…

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Review of The Hangover Part II (2011)

By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for AfterElton.com (45) on 25 May 2011

The Hangover Part II is, for the most part, an exceedingly hacky comedy…

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Review of I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)

By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for AfterElton.com (45) on 12 Feb 2010

While it's very easy to eviscerate Chuck and Larry from an activist point of view, all one really has to do to slam the flick is look at the…

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Review of Death at a Funeral (2007)

By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for AfterElton.com (45) on 12 Feb 2010

Despite a final half hour that's full of laughs, Death takes so long getting its farce gears moving that the audience becomes comatose with…

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Review of Small Town Gay Bar (2007)

By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for AfterElton.com (45) on 12 Feb 2010

While we're used to seeing movies about young men and women leaving their hometowns behind to live their lives openly in a big city, Gay Bar…

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Review of A Single Man (2009)

By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for AfterElton.com (45) on 12 Feb 2010

Whether viewers embrace its aesthetic as part of Ford's worldview or get annoyed by the fashion-spread-ishness of A Single Man's look, there's…

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Review of Valentine's Day (2010)

By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for AfterElton.com (45) on 12 Feb 2010

I had always thought of Love Actually, this movie's obvious antecedent, as a pleasant diversion, but next to Valentine's Day, it's a cerebral…

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Review of I Love You, Man (2009)

By Brian Juergens (209) for AfterElton.com (45) on 19 Mar 2009

Butch and Sundance ended their hetero romance in a shower of bullets, but here it's something to celebrate - a straight love story that doesn't…

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Review of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)

By Brian Juergens (209) for AfterElton.com (45) on 02 Oct 2008

A charming tour through a wonderfully authentic New York City landscape that takes full advantage of the magic that the city offers to everyone,…

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Review of Tropic Thunder (2008)

By Brian Juergens (209) for AfterElton.com (45) on 11 Aug 2008

A very funny Hollywood story with a gay character who doesn't mince or terrify the straight characters and comes out without being punished…

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Review of Brideshead Revisited (2008)

By Brian Juergens (209) for AfterElton.com (45) on 30 Jul 2008

Themes of religious oppression, particularly of gay people, are especially pointed and unfortunately still relevant enough today to sting…

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