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Movie Reviews Published by Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) - Page 5 of 98

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Review of Southside with You (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 07 Sep 2016

They attend 'Do the Right Thing,' and Spike Lee's provocative movie mirrors, in expressionistic fashion, the hours-long debate over racial…

Review of Lights Out (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 07 Sep 2016

A metaphor for abusive codependency and its sidekick repercussions, shame and secrecy, director David F…

Review of Sausage Party (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Aug 2016

Existential howl of despair meets stoner belly laugh in the latest project from Rogen and collaborators, who follow 'This Is the End' with…

Review of Elvis (1979)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Aug 2016

Respectful, unpretentious and elegant (a Carpenter characteristic), if somewhat ungainly in its substitution of California real estate for…

Review of Café Society (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 16 Aug 2016

The verbose if intermittent voice-over (delivered by Allen himself) is intrusive and redundant, but the script's Borscht Belt existentialism…

Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 16 Aug 2016

Jared Leto's tatted-up, bling-brandishing Clown Prince of Crime is more Juggalo than Joker…

Review of The BFG (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 31 Jul 2016

Spielberg reunites with 'E.T.' screenwriter Mathison to revisit the themes of their 1982 success, but with a revealing reversal: This time,…

Review of The Shallows (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 18 Jul 2016

Unpretentious and efficient, this taut 'B' film -- the B is for beach, bikini, Blake Lively, bites and blood -- makes the best of its limited…

Review of The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Jul 2016

Unlike most current 'superhero' sagas, which traffic in moral ambiguity, the movie is staunchly uncynical, with an entirely admirable Tarzan…

Review of Swiss Army Man (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Jul 2016

Certainly unusual, but its inventive absurdism eventually gives way to a sentimental message that is no less trite for being delivered by a…

Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 04 Jul 2016

Elvis, Jesus and returning husband-and-wife ghostbusters Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) are among the sources of…

Review of Now You See Me 2 (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 04 Jul 2016

The cinematic sleight of hand remains the same: The antic pace, the byplay among the magicians and the blithe disinterest in plausibility almost…

Review of Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 04 Jul 2016

In the era of Trump and Brexit, the movie's apocalyptic paranoia is commonplace while its one-world-united optimism seems quaint and naive…

Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Jun 2016

Unlike many of his competitors, Singer finds grace notes amid the chaos, as when Xavier's exploding mansion is freeze-framed in time so we…

Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Jun 2016

A more fortunate marriage than any suggested in its narrative, Stillman's first period piece makes a perfect match of Austen's timeless comedy…

Review of Maggie's Plan (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Jun 2016

This would-be screwball 'comedy of remarriage' (to use an academic term appropriate to a story filled with eggheads) strands a game cast on…

Review of The Lobster (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Jun 2016

The social pressure to be part of a couple is taken to Kafkaesque extremes in this poker-faced absurdist critique of the idea -- typically…

Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 07 Jun 2016

Not so much a mainstreamed 'Inherent Vice' as a civilian superhero movie for those who think they're too smart or 'adult' for costumed superhero…

Review of A Bigger Splash (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 05 Jun 2016

Swinton and Guadagnino deliver another bracing arthouse melodrama that luxuriates in cinema's power to tantalize the senses with beautiful,…

Review of Money Monster (2016)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 May 2016

The film delivers a dubious mixed message: It condemns the big-money investor and cable news cultures, treats the working class as expendable…

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