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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Cinephiled (42) on 08 May 2014

It's as if the lessons that were learned by the widely loathed, 2007 'three-quel' Spider-Man 3 were lost on the filmmakers and studio, who…

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Review of Cuban Fury (2014)

By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Cinephiled (42) on 08 May 2014

Luckily, (Nick Frost has) still got enough charm to make most of us overlook the more far-fetched and dumber story elements…

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Review of Blue Ruin (2014)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 21 Apr 2014

With its strong and singular sense of itself adding realness -- and real art -- to what could have been another revenge thriller, Blue Ruin…

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Review of Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 18 Mar 2014

Most Wanted continues the new-school adventures of the Muppets with good humor, good intentions and strong filmmaking, and hopefully won't…

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Review of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 06 Mar 2014

Mr…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 07 Feb 2014

A little real human feeling and a lot of real-world filming would do more for both Anderson's career and audience than yet another of his seemingly…

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Review of The Lego Movie (2014)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 04 Feb 2014

Subversive and thrilling, winking occasionally from a clear-eyed intelligent point-of-view, The Lego Movie turns what could have been an effort…

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Review of That Awkward Moment (2014)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 31 Jan 2014

That Awkward Moment is mostly a scary study in misplaced gender equity - namely, that you can now try to sell young men clueless, bland, boring…

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Review of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 16 Jan 2014

A tepid warm-up for Cold War leftovers, you can sum up both the worst and best thing about Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit in one sentence: Your…

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Review of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 24 Dec 2013

He Secret Life of Walter Mitty isn't an awful film, and its heart is in the right place even as it moves around the globe; it's just that Stiller's…

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Review of Her (2013)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 18 Dec 2013

Her is a story of both the next step in human progress and the eternal quest to find someone to love…

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Review of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 18 Dec 2013

I enjoyed maybe 8 of the thousand gags hurled at me in Anchorman 2, and yet two hours of its Whac-a-Mole hyperactivity felt like a steep price…

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Review of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 17 Dec 2013

The Wolf of Wall Street is a fun, frantic, messy blast of a party; too bad the very real and very important question of who pays the tab and…

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Review of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 09 Dec 2013

Llewyn Davis is part of a long line of unlucky Coen characters…

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Review of American Hustle (2013)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 04 Dec 2013

While you have to admire American Hustle for its willingness to work hard and play harder, it's also hard to not notice that all of its frantic…

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Review of Oldboy (2013)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 26 Nov 2013

Oldboy is too violent and strange for mass audiences, while the select few who've seen Park's film will recognize Lee's work as a beat-for-beat…

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Review of Homefront (2013)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 26 Nov 2013

Homefront neither stoops below nor strains above being what it is; it's an acceptable action-thriller, a high-protein and high-fat release…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 12 Nov 2013

We've been promised an inferno, but Catching Fire smolders for so long that when it finally does burst into burning right before the final…

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Review of Ender's Game (2013)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 02 Nov 2013

Ender's Game is, essentially, ludicrous, as if someone thought the big problem with great, real war films like Paths of Glory or A Bridge Too…

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Review of The Counselor (2013)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinephiled (42) on 23 Oct 2013

The Counselor is all cars and stars and meaninglessness - or, paraphrase the song of the moment, bloodstains, bespoke suits and cheetahs on…

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