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Review of Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 20 Aug 2014

With an approach so saccharine that it makes Eat Pray Love look like an edgy thriller, this heartwarming meaning-of-life odyssey is so relentlessly…

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Review of Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 07 Aug 2014

Despite the fact that this too-soon spin-off feels like a mere cash-in on the Disney Cars/Planes marketing machine, this sequel is actually…

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Review of Hide Your Smiling Faces (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 31 Jul 2014

With a low-key pace and extremely loose plot, this introspective drama gets deep under the skin as it explores a pivotal summer for two brothers…

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Review of A Promise (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 31 Jul 2014

When a French filmmaker travels to Belgium to film a German story in English, it's hardly surprising that the resulting movie feels somewhat awkward…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 31 Jul 2014

By refusing to follow the usual formula, filmmaker James Gunn has made Marvel's best-yet movie, a summer action-adventure that provides more…

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Review of Mood Indigo (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 31 Jul 2014

After a string of projects in America (including the masterpiece Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), French filmmaker Michel Gondry returns…

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Review of Behaving Badly (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 31 Jul 2014

For a comedy that so desperately wants to be rude and sexy, this movie is remarkably timid…

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Review of Who Is Dayani Cristal? (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Jul 2014

Actor-producer Gael Garcia Bernal takes a strikingly complex look at the timely issue of human migration from Central America to the United…

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Review of The Purge: Anarchy (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Jul 2014

After last year's break-out hit thriller, writer-director James DeMonaco is back with the flip-side of the story, which jettisons the irony…

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Review of Joe (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 24 Jul 2014

Nicolas Cage gives a rare internalised performance in this atmospheric drama, which has a stronger sense of its location than it does of its story…

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Review of Rage (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 10 Jul 2014

Nicolas Cage acts his socks off in this thinly plotted thriller, which is set in the same moral universe as the Taken movies, where mass murder…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 10 Jul 2014

By shooting this film over 12 years, writer-director Richard Linklater is able to explore family dynamics in an intensely involving way that's…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 10 Jul 2014

By shooting this film over 12 years, writer-director Richard Linklater is able to explore family dynamics in an intensely involving way that's…

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Review of Love Me Till Monday (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 10 Jul 2014

Refreshingly avoiding the usual romantic-comedy formula, this low-key British film has an enjoyably loose tone even if it sometimes feels rather…

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Review of I Am Divine (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 10 Jul 2014

With an appropriate explosion of humour and colour, this documentary traces the life of a fiercely individualistic actor, digging beneath the…

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Review of Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 10 Jul 2014

With each film in the Transformer saga, Michael Bay makes it clear that all he's interested in are massive metallic special effects bashing…

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Review of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 10 Jul 2014

Bigger and even richer than the terrific 2010 hit animation, this sequel is also quite possibly the best action-adventure movie of the year…

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Review of Goddess (2013)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 06 Jul 2014

Simplistic and sometimes painfully goofy, this Australian musical comedy only holds the attention by occasionally touching on some real relational…

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Review of The Man Whose Mind Exploded (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 06 Jul 2014

With sensitivity and a strong sense of humour, this documentary profiles both a strikingly eccentric man and an unusual mental-health issue…

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Review of Tammy (2014)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 06 Jul 2014

Melissa McCarthy is clearly in a rut: the title character in this film isn't very far removed from her previous roles in The Heat and Identity Thief…

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