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Review of The Words (2009)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

The Words wants desperately to convey that sense of being lost in the printed page…

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Review of Bernie (2012)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

The tone of its fictionalized elements puts this uncomfortably close to mockumentary…

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Review of Carrie (2013)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

While [Chloe Grace Moretz] makes a believable prom queen swan, she's less convincing as an awkward ugly duckling…

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Review of 56 Up (2012)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

It may be true that the character of a person may be more or less set by the time they are seven…

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Review of Side Effects (2015)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

The thriller is tepid, and the study of depression loaded with cinematic cliches…

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Review of Carrie (2002)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

While [Chloe Grace Moretz] makes a believable prom queen swan, she's less convincing as an awkward ugly duckling…

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Review of Branded (2012)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

The movie takes such surreal turns that it's awfulness become a cinematic train wreck from which you can't avert your eyes…

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Review of A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

Largely keeps John McClane off American soil and removes the crucial homeland insecurity that drove the franchise from day one…

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Review of Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

There's a mundane theme running under the adventures of alien exploration and a villain who will not be named: styles of contemporary office…

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Review of To Rome with Love (2012)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

Consumers should be advised that To Rome with Love requires that the moviegoer survive at least four Woody Allens…

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Review of Spider-Man (1977)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

Conveys the thrill of a kid from the outer boroughs who learns to conquer Manhattan, one skyscraper at a time…

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Review of Beware of Mr. Baker (2012)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

The kind of august rogue who threatens to put his director in hospital and punches him in the face with a cane-and makes him like it…

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Review of Margaret (2011)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

So contrived and ham-handed that its successes are mostly drowned in its failures…

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Review of The Turin Horse (2011)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

In the end...the film's characters as well as the viewer may welcome the apocalypse…

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Review of Rust and Bone (2012)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

Ends up running off the rails one or two times too often…

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Review of The Words (2012)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

The Words wants desperately to convey that sense of being lost in the printed page…

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Review of Casa de Mi Padre (2012)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

Ferrell and company do their best to summon up the levels of overacting that are the charming hallmark of telenovelas, but the forced parody…

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Review of Blue Jasmine (2013)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

A self-aggrandizing look at how the mighty (Allen) have fallen…

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Review of Spring Breakers (2013)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

A kind of horrible poetry, a misogynistic pentameter measured out in iambic bikinis…

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Review of Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

By Pat Padua (495) for DCist (403) on 29 Aug 2018

In a season that commodifies childhood wonder, let us also, like Mrs. Travers, summon up childhood trauma…

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