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Review of Upstream Color (2013)

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

Where .. .acting lacks expression ... music fills in the blanks…

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Review of Step Up Revolution (2012)

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

All that fancy footwork, supported by high production values, makes Step Up Revolution a watchable and even inventive sequel…

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Review of Hitchcock (2012)

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

It's insulting to the Hitchcocks and to the audience…

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Review of The Spectacular Now (2013)

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

The nice girl love interest who wakes him up after one drunken night isn't given much personality other than a cursory interest in anime…

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Review of The Lone Ranger (1956)

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

Has its heart in some of the right places, but just can't shoot straight…

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Review of Prometheus (2012)

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

The passage of time brings [Ridley Scott] back to the genre with the questions of a man facing his mortality-and with the tricks of a showman…

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Review of Machete Kills (2013)

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

Takes the seedy locales of a Mexploitation movie ... and creates an atmospheric beauty, establishing a neon serenity as a prelude to roadside carnage…

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Review of The Kid with a Bike (2011)

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

A contemporary fable [that] traffics in the childhood anxieties of bedtime stories...in a naturalistic setting that makes the viewer anxious…

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Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

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

A bleak view of the American myth of the present…

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Review of Nebraska (2013)

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

The movie's final act may be too sentimental for fans of Payne's satire, but that's what worked for me…

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Review of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)

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

How you feel about this movie may depend on whether you believe that Keira Knightley has a thing for John Cale…

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Review of The Campaign (2012)

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

Filled with the broad stereotypes typical of an increasingly divisive electorate and of a Will Ferrell vehicle, but there's a broader and in…

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Review of Whores' Glory (2011)

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

The women of Whores' Glory seek...salvation in their faith, but this sometimes glorified look at their lives reveals only the darkest nights…

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Review of Violet & Daisy (2013)

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

Comes off like teenagers playing at Quentin Tarantino…

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Review of Gravity (2013)

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

The screenwriters fill this chamber piece in space with loads of sentimentality…

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Review of The Lady (2011)

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

A bland title...is not the only sign of mellowing…

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Review of The Henchman's War (2012)

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

Despite its low budget, it's a solid, sharp-looking movie…

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Review of Pacific Rim (2013)

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

Provides plenty of spectacle, but the characters who inhabit it are, despite their Shakespearean airs, not vivid enough for you to care beyond…

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Review of The World's End (2013)

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

Deals with themes of free will, propaganda, conformity, friendship, aging and responsibility, in a funny and well-crafted package…

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Review of Polisse (2011)

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

[Maiwenn] ets such good performances out of a huge cast that one can forgive the navel-gazing, and in a movie about a police force with management…

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