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Review of Southpaw (2015)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 17 Jul 2015

The melodrama is absorbing and well directed, but I have to take points away for indulging so much in jacked up brutality of sustained fight…

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Review of Jurassic World (2015)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 20 Jun 2015

A pitch against genetic modification of animals, ancient or otherwise? An indictment of corporate greed at any cost to others…

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Review of The Age of Adaline (2015)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 01 May 2015

This pseudo-scientific contemplation of beating the process of aging is questionable from the start, but it's a bold and risky sci-fi in which…

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Review of Big Hero 6 (2014)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 19 Mar 2015

A new concept in fictional robots and a cartoon that goes beyond clever is a masterpiece of originality, big hug sweetness and one of the year's…

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Review of The Theory of Everything (2014)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 22 Feb 2015

In a biopic-heavy Oscar season, Redmayne's crack performance pays homage to a man who has advanced the studies of quantum mechanics, general…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 20 Jan 2015

A more distasteful rendering of character and story I can't begin to imagine. I must be missing something…

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Review of Predestination (2013)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 12 Jan 2015

Warning: what you get is not necessarily what you see, and the revelations come, at times, at explosive speed…

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Review of Predestination (2014)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 12 Jan 2015

Warning: what you get is not necessarily what you see, and the revelations come, at times, at explosive speed…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 06 Jan 2015

For all the themes intended to rocket our minds into a futuristic escape plan, it's too overloaded with hopelessness and bent logic to get…

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Review of A Most Violent Year (2014)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 28 Dec 2014

Chandor continuously raises the stakes on defying the violent, capturing our sympathies and commanding our engagement…

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Review of Inherent Vice (2014)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 21 Dec 2014

Though it's radically befuddling, the movie is full of surprises, some of them hilarious, inventive, evocative and sexy (frontal nudity and…

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Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 30 Nov 2014

With casting like this, I'd rather see the movie than read the book. At least in the case of one spy novelist…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 27 Nov 2014

This sequel-split rests on the time-tested theory that there's money to be raked in by extending the life of characters who had us from the…

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Review of Fury (2014)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 29 Oct 2014

Besides big gun Brad Pitt, the distinguishing feature here is the metal -- the clang and thunder of tank warfare: the power of it as a weapon,…

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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 04 Oct 2014

With the exceptional commercial pedigree of its source material, this is overwritten in all aspects--presumably for being crafted for the screen…

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Review of The Equalizer (2014)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 03 Oct 2014

Washington demonstrates the role-proof gift he has to connect sympathetically to the audience…

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Review of The Drop (2006)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 17 Sep 2014

The drama of this mean-streets tale is told on the deceptively gentle face of Tom Hardy. Don't let him out of your sight…

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Review of The Drop (2014)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 17 Sep 2014

The drama of this mean-streets tale is told on the deceptively gentle face of Tom Hardy. Don't let him out of your sight…

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Review of The Drop (1965)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 17 Sep 2014

The drama of this mean-streets tale is told on the deceptively gentle face of Tom Hardy. Don't let him out of your sight…

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Review of Frank (2014)

By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 26 Aug 2014

Call it an offbeat psychological comedy, an off-balance dramedy with instrumental backing, a study in psychopathy, an amusement from a dark…

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