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Review of Oculus (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 14 Apr 2014

The screenplay comes up short when it comes to probing the larger concerns exacerbated by the demonic presence…

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Review of It Felt Like Love (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 21 Mar 2014

A coming-of-age movie down to its marrow…

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Review of Le Week-End (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 14 Mar 2014

The journey across the beautiful Parisian streets carries with it the pangs of entrenched insecurities and regrets…

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Review of Bad Words (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 14 Mar 2014

It's a stream of insults without much of a story around them and Jason Bateman's direction fails to compensate for the script's deficiencies…

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Review of Teenage (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 13 Mar 2014

It's a fascinating endeavor, set between 1904 and 1945, with amazing images of young people from a multitude of backgrounds culled from across…

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Review of Grand Piano (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 08 Mar 2014

An extended set piece in the classical sense, with tension that starts high and remains elevated throughout…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 08 Mar 2014

It's a time capsule, showing us the twilight of a man and his era, subverting rosy nostalgic currents to memorialize life's fleeting shadow…

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Review of Love & Air Sex (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 23 Feb 2014

It's better than it sounds, with a tangible sense of loss and regret unfurling hand in hand with the ribald humor…

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Review of Pompeii (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 20 Feb 2014

This isn't the authoritative movie on this particular subject. We're still waiting for that. But it's a respectable effort…

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Review of 3 Days to Kill (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 20 Feb 2014

All over the map from a dramatic and tonal standpoint, but it nearly gets by on on the presence of Kevin Costner in one of his most lighthearted…

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Review of In Secret (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 20 Feb 2014

It's a tragedy captured in hushed tones and muted colors, a story in which everyone and no one is to blame…

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Review of Winter's Tale (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 17 Feb 2014

Almost every scene in Winter's Tale has some form of a 'what-were-they-thinking' moment…

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Review of RoboCop (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 11 Feb 2014

Joel Kinnaman's performance is a major letdown, a one-dimensional effort in which his robotic side triumphs over the human one…

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Review of The Monuments Men (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 07 Feb 2014

It's hard to imagine that a film with such a prolific cast could arrive so stillborn, but Clooney's direction and screenplay are significant letdowns…

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Review of Run & Jump (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 31 Jan 2014

The movie is too pleasant, too sweet and too tidily assembled given the central trauma…

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Review of 12 O'Clock Boys (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 31 Jan 2014

This slice-of-life effort presents a complicated picture when it comes to the world of urban dirt biking, acknowledging the dangers involved…

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Review of Big Bad Wolves (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 31 Jan 2014

Dreary, anti-septic and overwhelmingly glum, marching down a predictable narrative path without much in the way of enlightening ethical inquiry…

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Review of That Awkward Moment (2014)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 31 Jan 2014

It's a total cinematic dead zone, deeply troubled from the get-go…

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Review of Stranger by the Lake (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 31 Jan 2014

So studiously controlled that it's not an easy picture to watch, but you won't forget it…

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Review of Labor Day (2013)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 31 Jan 2014

It's hard to take any of this nonsense seriously. And if you did, you'd start wondering about the message…

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