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Review of Robots (2005)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 05 Jan 2013

The visuals are spectacular at times, but the screenplay is trite, intermittently vulgar, and just not funny…

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Review of Promised Land (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 04 Jan 2013

Promised Land is more effective as an anti-fracking screed than as a drama…

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Review of I ♥ Huckabees (2004)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 01 Jan 2013

David O. Russell hasn't yet developed enough filmmaking savvy to juggle so many intellectual, emotional, and narrative elements…

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Review of The Road (2009)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 28 Dec 2012

The novelist Cormac McCarthy was served well by the Coen Brothers' adaptation of his novel No Country for Old Men but comes a cropper in The…

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Review of Django Unchained (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 26 Dec 2012

Will Tarantino, who is more talented than he allows, ever break out of his perpetual adolescence and make a movie that does more than glorify…

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Review of Les Misérables (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 25 Dec 2012

Tom Hooper, who directed The King's Speech, is not great with action and big set pieces, but he gets the job done…

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Review of Jack Reacher (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Dec 2012

Werner Herzog, better known as one of the finest living directors, plays a bad guy with Teutonic relish…

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Review of On the Road (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Dec 2012

It's all rather exhausting, as opposed to exhilarating…

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Review of On the Road (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Dec 2012

It's all rather exhausting, as opposed to exhilarating…

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Review of On The Road (2013)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Dec 2012

It's all rather exhausting, as opposed to exhilarating…

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Review of The Guilt Trip (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Dec 2012

The jokes mostly fall flat and the dramatic scenes fall even flatter…

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Review of Not Fade Away (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Dec 2012

Gandolfini, though, is a standout as the old-school father who can't abide his new-style son (but loves him anyway)…

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Review of This Is 40 (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Dec 2012

The performers are so likable that you stay with them even when, as is often the case, the material is hit-or-miss…

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Review of Amour (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Dec 2012

Because of its subject matter, and because of the actors, it's impossible to watch this film without being moved. But a martinet is running the show…

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Review of On The Road (2010)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Dec 2012

It's all rather exhausting, as opposed to exhilarating…

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Review of The Last Station (2009)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 16 Dec 2012

The Last Station isn’t all that it should be, but whenever these two actors are onscreen, it’s like a great night at the theater…

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Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 14 Dec 2012

My first thought in watching The Hobbit was: Do we really need this movie? It was my last thought, too…

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Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 14 Dec 2012

By showing scenes of torture without taking any kind of moral (as opposed to tactical) stand on what we are seeing, Bigelow has made an amoral…

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Review of Peter Pan (2003)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 13 Dec 2012

Hogan's version brings out the story's somber side, showing how the mischief of unworldly characters like Peter and Tinkerbell can do real…

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Review of DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 10 Dec 2012

Stiller strives to be a wild and wacky villain, Vaughn endeavors to be a likable and average hero, and both fall flat on their faces, like…

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