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Review of Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 27 Jun 2013

Whether or not you are familiar with the band or their music, this movie will fill you with a rare kind of musical euphoria. You'll love it…

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Review of White House Down (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 25 Jun 2013

[VIDEO ESSAY] Buried in a shallow grave just beneath its veneer of absurdly cheesy Americana platitudes lays mocking subtext, twitching with…

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Review of The Way Way Back (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 24 Jun 2013

Here is a low-key personalized movie that just might help a few depressed teenagers get through an otherwise less enjoyable summer…

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Review of A Band Called Death (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 22 Jun 2013

[VIDEO ESSAY] As much a think piece on America's faded glory as it is a musical history lesson and character study, A Band Called Death is…

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Review of World War Z (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 20 Jun 2013

A bevy of screenwriters pitched in to create a zombie picture that has more in common with Man of Steel than it does with Dawn of the Dead…

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Review of Man of Steel (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 09 Jun 2013

Man of Steel takes a fresh approach to the well-worn origin of the Superman narrative (first published as Action Comics #1 in 1938)…

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Review of Now You See Me (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 31 May 2013

It's true...The closer you look, the less there is to see…

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Review of Safety Last! (1923)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 26 May 2013

Of the great silent film comedians, Harold Lloyd stood apart from Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton by virtue of his everyman approach to physical…

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Review of The Kings of Summer (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 24 May 2013

The Kings of Summer is a poor man's Moonrise Kingdom - with none of that film's editorial sense of kitsch, dry wit, or style…

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Review of Before Midnight (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 22 May 2013

Fireworks of authentic dialogue, emotion, and the madness of love reach a crescendo of palpable joie de vivre in Before Midnight…

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Review of Black Rock (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 18 May 2013

An exploitation thriller with feminist overtones - ala I Spit on Your Grave, but nowhere nearly as gutsy - Black Rock disappoints on various levels…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 17 May 2013

[VIDEO ESSAY] Baz Luhrmann's bastardization of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is a travesty…

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Review of Augustine (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 17 May 2013

[VIDEO ESSAY] Newcomer director Alice Winocour drafts an erotically charged and socially complex telling of a controversial 19th century neurologist…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (1974)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 May 2013

[VIDEO ESSAY] Widely trashed by a cabal of critics who didn't know a good film when they saw it, Jack Clayton's 1974 rendition of F…

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Review of Bloody Sunday (2002)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 06 May 2013

Although originally produced for British television in 2002, Paul Greengrass's vivid depiction of a violent turning point in the so-called…

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Review of Venus and Serena (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 05 May 2013

those hoping to better understand the physical and mental struggles that Serena and Venus Williams have gone through in their commitment…

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Review of Sightseers (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 05 May 2013

Blacker than the La Brea Tar Pits director Ben Wheatley's dark comedy, about a couple of serial killer lovebirds, is an exquisitely funny movie…

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Review of Variety (1985)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 30 Apr 2013

Bette Gordon's independent psychological thriller, written by Kathy Acker, is a stunning proto-feminist noir experiment set in the sex shops…

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Review of The Iceman (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 27 Apr 2013

With so many substantial performances under his belt, it's not accurate to tern Michael Shannon's exemplary work here as a breakthrough performance…

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Review of The Sea Inside (2004)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 26 Apr 2013

[VIDEO ESSAY] Alejandro Amenábar's seamless depiction of Ramón Sampedro's battle for his own sense of integrity arrives in refreshing cinematic…

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