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Review of Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 12 Jul 2012

To appreciate Beasts one must relax their expectations, allowing the feature's sputtery sense of momentum to generate a feeling of detachment…

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Review of Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 12 Jul 2012

Feels like more of a pause than a true sequel, leaving hope that the producers will be able to steer the franchise back to more fertile creative…

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Review of Why Stop Now? (2012)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 12 Jul 2012

Isn't very funny or poignant, drifting somewhere in between while the actors make the best out of a lackluster storytelling situation…

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Review of The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 11 Jul 2012

Sometimes it's difficult to remember that Reiner once directed This is Spinal Tap…

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Review of Universal Soldier (1992)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 08 Jul 2012

There's a decent bit of escapism in here somewhere, but Emmerich doesn't possess the finesse to make the material rampage as it should…

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Review of Cool World (1992)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 08 Jul 2012

Cool World isn't difficult to watch (there's too much insanity floating around to be bored), it's just impossible to digest, absent any grounded…

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Review of The Pact (2010)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 05 Jul 2012

A satisfying ghost story without leaning too hard into trends…

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Review of The Pact (2012)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 05 Jul 2012

A satisfying ghost story without leaning too hard into trends…

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Review of To Rome with Love (2012)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 04 Jul 2012

That's the miracle of this filmmaker. Woody Allen will make the occasional stinker, but he's always a year away from his next masterpiece…

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Review of Savages (2012)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 04 Jul 2012

Coarse and half-asleep, Savages is a waste of Stone's time and energy, falling back on tired habits of provocation best left buried with his…

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Review of Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 03 Jul 2012

An exceptional feature on every level of execution, also displaying a rare sensitivity to Stone that he would spend the rest of his career…

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Review of Boomerang (1992)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 02 Jul 2012

The cop-out conclusion doesn't dilute the playfulness the Hudlins are always interested in providing…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 02 Jul 2012

Much of The Amazing Spider-Man has been seen before, in a better film with a more delirious director, making this unofficial remake puzzling…

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Review of Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 02 Jul 2012

A flashy, enlightening time capsule of Perry's career…

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Review of Spider-Man (1977)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 02 Jul 2012

Much of The Amazing Spider-Man has been seen before, in a better film with a more delirious director, making this unofficial remake puzzling…

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Review of Madea's Witness Protection (2012)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 28 Jun 2012

A picture that finds Perry channeling the comedies of Jerry Lewis. At least Lewis in his later years of performing. Like The Day the Clown Cried…

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Review of People Like Us (2012)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 28 Jun 2012

The trick of Us is making the audience not mind the unnatural delay, supplying characters dimensional enough to ignore their odd lack of common…

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Review of Magic Mike (2012)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 28 Jun 2012

Soderbergh pulls out every trick in the book to make Magic mean something beyond its parade of shaved backs and tanned buttocks, but it's a…

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Review of Your Sister's Sister (2011)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 27 Jun 2012

Perfectly fine somewhere between the humor of discomfort and that brutality of the truth, sustaining its feel for family and the bond between…

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Review of Ted (2012)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 27 Jun 2012

Avoids pitch-black comedy, selecting a more rascally tone that toys with Boston brute behaviors (served with wicked good accents) and the undeniable…

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