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Review of Aloha (2015)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 28 May 2015

Crowe is deft at keeping the various plots spinning, but there are too many of them, and they don’t intersect pleasingly…

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Review of Step Into Liquid (2003)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 27 May 2015

There are some novelties, like views of people surfing down sand dunes, but there's also far too much self-congratulation by surfers…

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Review of Chicago (2002)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 25 May 2015

The trouble with Chicago is the sense it conveys that nothing is really at stake -- there's no moral or ethical question that can't be turned…

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Review of Boys on the Side (1995)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 24 May 2015

The movie tries to outdo Thelma and Louise by upping the number of heroines, but it lacks the moral seriousness to tackle its sensitive material…

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Review of Doubt (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 24 May 2015

Along with its disappointments and its narrowness of intellectual focus, Doubt offers up the crackling pleasures of performance and a narrative…

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Review of The Connection (1962)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 May 2015

From scene to scene The Connection is never less than watchable, although it is also never less than predictable…

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Review of Tomorrowland (2015)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 May 2015

Tomorrowland is a rather sweet excursion into speculative sci-fi, and, wonder of wonders, it doesn’t even seemed primed for a sequel…

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Review of The Connection (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 May 2015

From scene to scene The Connection is never less than watchable, although it is also never less than predictable…

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Review of The Weather Man (2005)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 15 May 2015

The film is certainly worth seeing, but it should be better than it is…

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Review of I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2015)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 14 May 2015

Although I Am Big Bird is no great shakes as a piece of filmmaking, and skews into treacly inspirational terrain, it’s still worth seeing…

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Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 14 May 2015

The action sequences, at least as feats of engineering, are mightily impressive…

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Review of Slow West (2015)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 14 May 2015

The film is too artsy for its own good, but it has some marvelous Coen Brothers-style black humor…

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Review of Starting Out in the Evening (2007)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 14 May 2015

Director Andrew Wagner, adapting a novel by Brian Morton, is sometimes understated to a fault, but his work with the actors, who also include…

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Review of Dogville (2003)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 10 May 2015

Von Trier sets the action on a theatrical stage, spotlighting the existential isolation that weighs on people who don't seek larger visions…

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Review of Brothers in Arms (2003)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 04 May 2015

The movie's main contribution is its fresh look at the Vietnam War, being refought in the Kerry-Bush presidential campaign at the time of the…

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Review of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 02 May 2015

Opium- addicted Allan Quatermain becomes none other than Sean Connery…

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Review of Because I Was a Painter: Art That Survived the Nazi Camps (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 30 Apr 2015

The drawings, mostly portraits of great grief, are extraordinary both as documents and as works of art…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 29 Apr 2015

The action sequences aren’t especially well designed, and the plot, such as it is, is essentially one catastrophe after another…

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Review of Bee Movie (2007)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 29 Apr 2015

Best viewed as an oddball career move rather than as a successful movie…

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Review of Felix and Meira (2015)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 23 Apr 2015

It’s always gratifying to see a movie in which an ostensibly closed-off community is depicted humanely rather than voyeuristically…

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