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Review of Focus (2014)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Feb 2015

Although it brings nothing new to the con-artist fold, or even anything thrilling, Focus is a seductive enough rehash that benefits from the…

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Review of The Lazarus Effect (2015)

By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Feb 2015

Aside from the waste of talent, the frustrating thing about The Lazarus Effect is how it cheats. Good horror movies work on internal logic…

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Review of Deli Man (2015)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Feb 2015

There's nothing particularly earth-shattering here, but maybe that's appropriate for a film honoring food that aims to be mouthwatering but…

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Review of What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Feb 2015

There is so much love and understanding of all the genres the film is skewering that What We Do in the Shadows transcends its lowbrow inspirations…

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Review of Mommy (2015)

By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Feb 2015

Mommy is a film as harrowing as it is exhilarating, a story sometimes hard to watch but impossible to turn away from…

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Review of 72 Hours (2015)

By Randy Cordova (352) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Feb 2015

Written, produced and directed by Christopher Nolen, who gives himself a small role, the movie fails as both a comedy and morality tale…

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Review of Mommy (2015)

By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Feb 2015

Mommy is a film as harrowing as it is exhilarating, a story sometimes hard to watch but impossible to turn away from…

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Review of McFarland, USA (2015)

By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 19 Feb 2015

Caro's direction, Costner's performance and the winning cast, along with the shining of a sliver of light on the plight of field workers, however…

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Review of Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)

By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 19 Feb 2015

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is a movie that didn't need to be made, and certainly doesn't need to be seen — not when you can rent the original…

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Review of She's Out of My League (2010)

By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 14 Feb 2015

There's plenty of gross-out humor and lots of sex jokes, some of them absurd, some really funny…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 12 Feb 2015

Yes, there are sex scenes in the film, quite a few…

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Review of Timbuktu (2014)

By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 12 Feb 2015

Timbuktu is a terrific film, a quiet work of savage truth…

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Review of Seventh Son (2014)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 06 Feb 2015

Seventh Son is recommended only for the most far-gone of fantasy addicts, for whom it will serve as a sort of methadone…

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Review of Seventh Son (2014)

By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 06 Feb 2015

Seventh Son delivers exactly what it promises: Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore slumming in a laughably generic sword-and-sorcery almost-epic…

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Review of Jupiter Ascending (2015)

By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 05 Feb 2015

The Wachowskis never lack for ambition. It's in the execution where they run into trouble…

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Review of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)

By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 05 Feb 2015

As tiresome as those live-action sequences are, they are more than outweighed by laughs — some riotous, some groaning and some very, very…

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Review of Leviathan (2014)

By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 05 Feb 2015

A sense of dread hovers over all these characters, and, by extension, the audience. It's in the air of the place, like oxygen. And vodka…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 29 Jan 2015

There is strength in simplicity, something the Dardenne brothers' Two Days, One Night and its brilliant star, Marion Cotillard, prove emphatically…

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Review of Match (2015)

By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 29 Jan 2015

Match is no masterpiece, but it is an intriguing and entertaining example of actors lifting the material they're given to greater heights,…

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Review of Song of the Sea (2014)

By Suzanne Condie Lambert (10) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 29 Jan 2015

Song of the Sea is a lyrical treat for those willing to sit still and let it wash over them…

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