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Review of Maladies (2012)

By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 21 Mar 2014

This is Franco's second directorial collaboration with the artiste who goes by the name of Carter, and hopefully they won't push their luck further…

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Review of Just a Sigh (2013)

By Ethan Alter (997) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 20 Mar 2014

Watching Devos slip in and out of Alix's various characters is one of the major pleasures of an otherwise modestly enjoyable film…

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Review of Blood Ties (2014)

By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 20 Mar 2014

Likeable cast can't salvage this adaptation of a French thriller…

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Review of Divergent (2014)

By Anna Storm (53) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 20 Mar 2014

those same events that elicited thrills in the novel, and probably read like gold on the script's paper, fall terribly, even comically,…

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Review of Rob the Mob (2014)

By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 20 Mar 2014

Director Raymond De Felitta, working from a strong, vivid script by Jonathan Fernandez, finds the perfect mordant comic tone with which to…

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Review of Stay (2013)

By Frank Lovece (341) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 20 Mar 2014

Quinn and Schilling both bring welcome nuances of expression and movement, but neither character amounts to much more than a petulant whiner…

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Review of Blood Ties (2013)

By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 20 Mar 2014

Likeable cast can't salvage this adaptation of a French thriller…

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Review of Anita (2013)

By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 20 Mar 2014

Hill's enduring strength and character is the emotional center, but the scandal's residual trashiness, enduring mystery and elusive justice…

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Review of The Missing Picture (2013)

By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 18 Mar 2014

With their elemental poses, the rough clay figurines serve as abstractions for the Khmer Rouge victims...they show what archival footage cannot-…

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Review of Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

By Frank Lovece (341) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 17 Mar 2014

A caper movie crossed with a prison picture, this second Muppets outing from new owner Disney is self-referential fun in the troupe's traditional…

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Review of Bad Words (2013)

By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 13 Mar 2014

The ratio of hits to misses remains pretty high even as the movie seems to dawdle over scenes that lead nowhere…

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Review of Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)

By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 13 Mar 2014

With more than stick figures and witless humor, the film might have delivered better viewing through cinematic chemistry…

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Review of Shirin in Love (2014)

By Marsha Mccreadie (81) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 13 Mar 2014

Shirin in Love, like its protagonist, looks ditzy at first but quickly becomes a thinking woman's romantic comedy, making a lie of recent media…

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Review of The Art of the Steal (2013)

By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 13 Mar 2014

The whole affair is so slickly mechanical, devoid of any real thrill or authentic human feeling, that it begs the question: Don't even genre…

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Review of Need for Speed (2014)

By Frank Lovece (341) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 12 Mar 2014

Whatever else its virtues and flaws, Need for Speed is -- if we may put it this way -- a star vehicle…

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Review of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 07 Mar 2014

Despite...drawbacks, Mr. Peabody & Sherman captures much of the manic, surrealistic fun of the original cartoons…

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Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Michael Sauter (58) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 06 Mar 2014

Marching to the same beat as its predecessor, this belated follow-up delivers even more visual excess and brain-deadening bloodshed…

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Review of Journey to the West (2014)

By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 06 Mar 2014

Imaginative retelling of a 16th-century Chinese novel is both hilarious and oddly reverent…

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Review of Bethlehem (2013)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 05 Mar 2014

the occasionally blank and drifting performances undercut this potentially electrifying terror procedural…

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Review of Odd Thomas (2013)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 27 Feb 2014

Odd Thomas is not for every taste, and for many viewers it will rank somewhere on a scale that starts with twee and ratchets up to insufferable…

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