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Review of Return to Sender (2015)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 20 May 2015

For almost the entire running time of this movie, we have no idea what it is about. What is it trying to say? What sort of story is it trying to tell…

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Review of Tomorrowland (2015)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 20 May 2015

It gets a tad heavy-handed, but my eyes welled with tears of geeky joy at the film's embrace of an optimism it steadfastly refuses to see as…

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Review of Big Game (2014)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 18 May 2015

A kid rescues the President. It sounds like a joke movie The Onion might invent to satirize Hollywood preposterousness, but I swear to god, it's real…

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Review of Every Secret Thing (2005)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 16 May 2015

A slow burn mystery in which the secrets aren't so much about the crimes it explores but truths of women's emotional lives that are too often ignored…

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Review of Every Secret Thing (2014)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 16 May 2015

A slow burn mystery in which the secrets aren't so much about the crimes it explores but truths of women's emotional lives that are too often ignored…

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Review of Good Kill (2015)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 14 May 2015

There are important issues running through this, but the film forgets to be sufficiently engaging in the course of being Significant…

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Review of A Royal Night Out (2015)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 14 May 2015

A bit of House of Windsor fan fiction: cute but slight, though the re-creation of London's citywide VE Day celebrations is kind of amazing…

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Review of The Man Who Saved the World (2014)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 14 May 2015

Meet the crotchety, bitter old man who, back in 1983 as a crotchety, bitter younger man, refused to initiate global nuclear war. A true story…

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Review of Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 13 May 2015

Some sweet sisterhood and truly fantastic musical performances get dragged down by awkward, lazy, embarrassing attempts at humor…

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Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 12 May 2015

Astonishing. Achieves its grotesque, magnificent brutality in an old-fashioned way that serves as a smackdown to bloated, sterile CGI monstrosities…

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Review of Testament of Youth (2015)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 12 May 2015

A compassionate, distressing tale of a woman's determination to find her own purpose, full of heartbreaking moments that pile up until they're…

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Review of Girlhood (2014)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 07 May 2015

[N]uanced and unvarnished... with its rare depth and compassion for people too often ignored on film... [S]earingly authentic…

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Review of Honeytrap (2015)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 07 May 2015

[B]rilliant and necessary... a difficult, upsetting film, quite harrowing in its unflinching look at the everyday horrors of ordinary lives…

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Review of Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 06 May 2015

A ridiculous, rote action thriller, but that doesn't mean it isn't entertaining, crammed with all sorts of macho emoting and spy nonsense as it is…

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Review of The Age of Adaline (2015)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 05 May 2015

A pleasant and undemanding romantic drama that takes great care not to upset you unduly with strong emotion or embarrassing passion…

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Review of Ooops! Noah Is Gone... (2015)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 30 Apr 2015

This spectacularly ill-conceived movie is what happens when a cheap ripoff cannot even rise to the level of crass Hollywood junk…

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Review of Unfriended (2014)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 29 Apr 2015

There's little less compelling than a vague evil spirit with loosely defined powers doing random 'scary' things as required by the script…

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Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 28 Apr 2015

Ridiculously romantic in all the best ways, and more modern, more progressive, and even just plain more grownup that half the movies thrown…

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Review of Still Alice (2014)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 27 Apr 2015

Julianne Moore's terror at watching her own emotional and intellectual life slip away is palpable, and much scarier to me than any slasher movie…

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Review of The Emperor's New Clothes (2015)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 24 Apr 2015

Russell Brand's angry-funny rant about the current system of widescale economic injustice is concise, comprehensible, and newly infuriating…

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