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Movie Reviews Published by Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) - Page 53 of 98

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Review of The Rite (1969)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 04 Feb 2011

A so-called horror movie dull enough to have been produced for the Catholic cable channel…

Review of The Rite (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 04 Feb 2011

A so-called horror movie dull enough to have been produced for the Catholic cable channel…

Review of Another Year (2010)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 04 Feb 2011

Non-fans might describe Mary as a victim of Leigh's cruelty, but she's also a beneficiary of the filmmaker's generosity: She's as fully realized…

Review of Biutiful (2010)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Jan 2011

There's something liberating about Gonzalez Inarritu's hubris -- his insistence on treating his characters the way God treated Job or Jesus…

Review of Not of This Earth (1957)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Jan 2011

Could be the most effective of Corman's non-comic pre-Poe films…

Review of Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Jan 2011

A truly weird, even surreal film that offers more evidence that dehumanization -- whether by mutation, takeover, identity transference, transformation…

Review of Blue Valentine (2010)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Jan 2011

Gosling -- whose acting can be seen from a mile away -- seems to be portraying a slumming method actor who's only pretending to be a husband/housepainter,…

Review of 127 Hours (2010)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Jan 2011

Worthwhile, but I would have preferred a less strenuous, more patient, less 'entertaining' production, without the hallucinated laugh track…

Review of All Good Things (2010)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 21 Jan 2011

One can't help but think that veteran documentarian Jarecki chose to rework this material as drama to benefit his career, not the story…

Review of The Way Back (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 21 Jan 2011

Humanity is dwarfed by landscape, but the effect is more pictorial than revealing…

Review of Big Bad Mama (1974)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 18 Jan 2011

Corman's 'lady gangster' movies exposed more than skin: They essentially pantsed Uncle Sam, organized religion, law enforcement, big business…

Review of Big Bad Mama II (1987)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 18 Jan 2011

Recycles much of the earlier film's 13-year-old action footage as well as its ideas…

Review of The Lady in Red (1979)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 18 Jan 2011

It hurts,' Polly says, after losing her virgnity to a lying cad; this is her defining comment, and a succinct summation of Sayles' judgment…

Review of The Lady in Red (1935)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 18 Jan 2011

It hurts,' Polly says, after losing her virgnity to a lying cad; this is her defining comment, and a succinct summation of Sayles' judgment…

Review of Vampire Circus (1972)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 18 Jan 2011

Hammer's most elusive Gothic horror movie contains frequent nudity, but its arthouse kinkiness -- its hints of pedophilia, bestiality and incest…

Review of The Dilemma (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 Jan 2011

A risky failure: a Ron Howard-directed so-called buddy comedy with Vince Vaughn and Kevin James that evolves into a weird, clumsy psychodrama…

Review of The Green Hornet (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 Jan 2011

The MVP is Jay Chou as Kato, who is as much Britt Reid's superior as the valet Jeeves and the dog Gromit are superior to their alleged 'masters…

Review of Rabbit Hole (2010)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 Jan 2011

The movie is stingy with information and surprisingly generous with humor (which provides realism, and relief from the sadness)…

Review of The Dilemma (1919)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 Jan 2011

A risky failure: a Ron Howard-directed so-called buddy comedy with Vince Vaughn and Kevin James that evolves into a weird, clumsy psychodrama…

Review of Country Strong (2010)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 14 Jan 2011

The story's shifting perspectives and sympathies (the distinctions between the 'authentic' singer-songwriter and the 'pop' vocalist prove ambiguous)…

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