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Review of The Drop (2006)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 10 Sep 2014

Where did this frustrating movie go wrong? There are multiple possible choke points…

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Review of The Drop (2014)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 10 Sep 2014

Where did this frustrating movie go wrong? There are multiple possible choke points…

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Review of No No: A Dockumentary (2014)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 03 Sep 2014

They absolutely, positively don't make 'em like that anymore…

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Review of The Trip to Italy (2014)

By Charles Ealy (164) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 27 Aug 2014

The Caine impressions are still good, as they were in the first film, but some of the others are hard to figure out…

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Review of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 20 Aug 2014

The images on-screen hewing ever more closely to Miller's original comics. Streets have rarely looked so mean, yet so removed from reality…

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Review of When the Game Stands Tall (2014)

By Charles Ealy (164) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 20 Aug 2014

The football action scenes are expertly choreographed, with inventive camera angles, an on-the-field feel and a lot of visceral action…

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Review of The Expendables 3 (2014)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 13 Aug 2014

The Expendables 3 doesn't pretend it's anything other than a vector for action sequences and banter between beefy guys…

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Review of The Giver (2014)

By Addie Broyles (1) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 13 Aug 2014

It is director of photography Ross Emery's magnificent use of color and montage that elicits the most emotional response in the viewer…

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Review of Septic Man (2013)

By Charles Ealy (164) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 13 Aug 2014

Some horror freaks are bound to enjoy the show, geeking out over [the film's] grotesqueness…

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Review of Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

By Charles Ealy (164) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 06 Aug 2014

Love makes the magic in Woody Allen's latest movie, and it helps to have such likable stars as Colin Firth and Emma Stone in the leading roles…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 30 Jul 2014

For the most part, director and co-writer James Gunn delivers a solid action/comedy/ CGI spaceship combo, but far too much time is spent describing…

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Review of Lucy (2014)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 23 Jul 2014

Jammed with far-out-dude gobbledygook about brain capacity and violent Asian mobsters, Lucy is easily the summer's most gaga super-powered caper…

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Review of The Last Airbender (2010)

By John Defore (1,351) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 17 Jul 2014

There isn't a single convincing performance in the picture, and the badness of the acting is, bizarrely, pretty much in direct proportion to…

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Review of The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2013)

By Rebecca Onion (6) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 10 Jul 2014

This approach to a true-crime documentary departs significantly from the sensational, and is all the more moving because of it…

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Review of Tammy (2014)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 05 Jul 2014

It's closer to full-goofball than heart-of-gold character sketch, so when it tries for poignant, the shift is awkward and uncomfortable…

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Review of Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013)

By Charles Ealy (164) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 25 Jun 2014

If you choose to go see it, you can make up your own mind. By the third act, however, you might wish that you had stayed home…

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Review of Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 25 Jun 2014

Go for the robot punching if you like, but don't expect anything more than meets the eye…

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Review of Hellion (2014)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 25 Jun 2014

The relationship between Hollis, Jacob and Wes, their fragile interdependence, is the movie's tough heart…

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Review of Korengal (2014)

By Charles Ealy (164) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 25 Jun 2014

Korengal lets us see how young men in the U.S…

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Review of Snowpiercer (2013)

By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 25 Jun 2014

Snowpiercer balances class metaphor, a nice hunk of comic book strangeness and often-ingeniously choreographed action in equal measure…

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