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Review of Pain & Gain (2013)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 25 Apr 2013

Pain & Gain brings the pain, but it's difficult to see the gain…

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Review of The Company You Keep (2012)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 25 Apr 2013

Redford the director keeps things moving smoothly, avoiding too many lengthy monologues while still getting the point across…

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Review of To the Wonder (2013)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 18 Apr 2013

Mostly, it's solemn intonations of bad poetry over open-field twirling scenes and long serious looks of love, tenderness and cosmic understanding…

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Review of Nicky's Family (2011)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 18 Apr 2013

Too much time is spent with survivors or Winton speaking to schoolchildren, or revisiting the place where this or that happened…

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Review of Oblivion (2013)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 18 Apr 2013

Kosinski offers plenty of action here, and he lets the plot reveals bleed out slowly (explanations keep coming right to the end)…

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Review of Pawn (2013)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 18 Apr 2013

Hostage dramas have conventions; if Pawn skirts too close to them at the end, and has too many characters, it still keeps the game interesting…

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Review of Home Run (2013)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 18 Apr 2013

It's preaching the gospel of a 12-step recovery program with a heavy helping of Jesus for guidance. And the corn can get pretty high…

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Review of 42 (2013)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 11 Apr 2013

If anybody deserves to be portrayed as noble, it's Jackie Robinson…

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Review of Room 237 (2012)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 11 Apr 2013

The results can range from enlightening - Kubrick did like to mess with things - to embarrassing. But it's never dull. Room 237 shines…

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Review of Trance (2013)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 11 Apr 2013

Dawson walks through this film with majestic confidence while McAvoy is constantly inches from a full breakdown…

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Review of West of Memphis (2012)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 04 Apr 2013

It's not a new story, true, but West of Memphis makes it both extremely personal and universally painful…

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Review of Evil Dead (2013)

By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 04 Apr 2013

Raimi set the bar high, and if Alvarez can't quite rise to his level, he overcompensates by drowning everything in blood…

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Review of The Playroom (2013)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 04 Apr 2013

You have your basic family psychodrama, except there's no real heat either downstairs or up…

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Review of The Host (2013)

By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 29 Mar 2013

A goofball teenage sci-fi romance, The Host is an End of Days parable that seems like it was written at a slumber party…

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Review of The Host (2015)

By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 29 Mar 2013

A goofball teenage sci-fi romance, The Host is an End of Days parable that seems like it was written at a slumber party…

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Review of Family Weekend (2013)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 29 Mar 2013

The unconventional dysfunctional family has now become a Hollywood convention. It is familiar to a fault…

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Review of Beware of Mr. Baker (2012)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 28 Mar 2013

Ginger Baker has been revealed as a major talent, an innovator and an unlikely survivor. And a not very nice guy…

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Review of Spring Breakers (2013)

By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 22 Mar 2013

A half hour, four hours, two days after walking away from it you might still flashback to its seductive, neon-lit, dayglow world…

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Review of On the Road (2014)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 22 Mar 2013

It's not a wreck of a movie; it's not a sleek race car either. But there's heat to be felt here…

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Review of On the Road (2012)

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 22 Mar 2013

It's not a wreck of a movie; it's not a sleek race car either. But there's heat to be felt here…

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