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Review of Reality+ (2014)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 07 Mar 2013

Effective as both satire and drama about a man who is so convinced he is about to become a celeb that he loses touch with reality…

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Review of Reality (2015)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 07 Mar 2013

Effective as both satire and drama about a man who is so convinced he is about to become a celeb that he loses touch with reality…

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Review of Reality (2012)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 07 Mar 2013

Effective as both satire and drama about a man who is so convinced he is about to become a celeb that he loses touch with reality…

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Review of The Company You Keep (2012)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 06 Mar 2013

Though a political thriller, there is less melodrama and more psychological tension as a man wanted for murder 30 years earlier as part of…

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Review of Come Out and Play (2012)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 05 Mar 2013

Though virtually without plot, the horror elements are effective given the graphic views of mass murder…

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Review of Ginger & Rosa (2012)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 28 Feb 2013

Elle Fanning is so good that she is on her way to becoming the next Tilda Swinton--the title character of Sally Potter's great film 'Orlando…

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Review of Emperor (2012)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 26 Feb 2013

Effectively combines romance with historical fiction about the question of what to do with Emperor Hirohito after the Japanese surrender in 1945…

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Review of No Place on Earth (2012)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 22 Feb 2013

The incredible but true story of a Jewish family that hid from the Nazis in a cave for 511 days, done as a hybrid of documentary and narrative…

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Review of Beyond the Hills (2012)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 20 Feb 2013

Overlong and bleak while featuring superb ensemble acting, this Romanian Oscar entry employs careful attention to detail to depict life in…

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Review of Beautiful Creatures (2013)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 13 Feb 2013

Don't look for logic here, but who says that romantic love is logical…

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Review of Leviathan (2013)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 13 Feb 2013

Painterly with a bold soundtrack but ultimately pointless look at men at sea who bring in our Friday dinners…

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Review of Side Effects (2015)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 04 Feb 2013

Even if you're a young guy with no interest in the prescription drug scene, you'll be attentive to the melodramatic aspects of this psychological…

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Review of Side Effects (2013)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 04 Feb 2013

Even if you're a young guy with no interest in the prescription drug scene, you'll be attentive to the melodramatic aspects of this psychological…

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Review of Inescapable (2012)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 31 Jan 2013

A thriller based in Syria with grainy photography, absurd coincidences, one that is stiffly acted with stilted dialogue…

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Review of Caesar Must Die (2012)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 29 Jan 2013

Italy's Oscar entry for best foreign pic of 2012 is a bold choice, one featuring hardened criminals who deliver a shattering performance of…

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Review of Like Someone in Love (2012)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 28 Jan 2013

The conversation between the elderly professor and the call girl is amusing and mysterious in equal parts…

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Review of No (2012)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 25 Jan 2013

Neatly combines political conflict with marketing satire to form a vivid look at the 1988 plebiscite that overthrew Chile's dictator Augusto Pinochet…

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Review of Yossi (2012)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 08 Jan 2013

A tender but happily unsentimental tale of a closeted gay doctor in Israel who finds at least a measure of happiness with a young soldier…

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Review of Jack Reacher (2012)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 19 Dec 2012

Despite its adaptation from an airport bookstore novel, the movie rivets, the 130 minutes flying by like the inevitable crime-story police chopper…

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Review of Room 237 (2012)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 18 Dec 2012

Tells us more about 'The Shining than we ever thought possible, though not a single interpretation voiced in this doc could be accurate…

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