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Review of Song of the Sea (2014)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 21 Feb 2015

Prettily animated family adventure infused with Irish folklore and traditional Celtic design makes for a change of pace from slick Hollywood cartoons…

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Review of Blackhat (2015)

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

This mysteriously misbegotten flick should be a gritty 10-hour miniseries so it would have time to explore its ideas and potentially fascinating…

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Review of The Wedding Ringer (2015)

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

A festering pile of fatphobic, homophobic, sexist, grossout garbage in which men are manipulative liars but women are worse…

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Review of Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)

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

Weirdly funny and weirdly sad, one woman's slo-mo nervous breakdown becomes an exercise in pathos that is unforgettably poignant…

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Review of Foxcatcher (2014)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 19 Feb 2015

A pensive and unsettling film that defies genre description and keeps you wondering just what the heck sort of film you're watching…

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Review of Leviathan (2014)

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

The angry grandeur of its despair over how ordinary people get screwed by the powerful may be uniquely Russian, but it will hit home everywhere…

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Review of Virunga (2014)

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

This is not a nature documentary, though there are some beautiful scenes of wild spaces. This is war journalism, tense and upsetting…

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Review of Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me (2014)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 17 Feb 2015

A harrowing yet also inspiring portrait of the American pop music icon as he copes with the rapid deterioration of Alzheimer's…

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Review of Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine (2014)

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

An almost unbearably heartbreaking documentary rehumanizes the LGBT icon... and makes him newly tragic all over again…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 15 Feb 2015

A charm-free hero with control issues and a passive, fretful heroine have coy and tediously vanilla pretend-sex. This is meant to be erotic…

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Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 15 Feb 2015

A charm-free hero with control issues and a passive, fretful heroine have coy and tediously vanilla pretend-sex. This is meant to be erotic…

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Review of Old Fashioned (2014)

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

Old-fashioned is right. Like how the Taliban is old-fashioned…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 11 Feb 2015

A genuine horror story, sweaty with a palpable ring of truth about the unending fear that accompanies life on the knife edge of financial despair…

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Review of Selma (2014)

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

A magnificent film, vital and alive, with the most profound sense of immediacy I think I've ever felt in a historical story…

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Review of Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)

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

Charming in that gloriously detailed Aardman way, but with its simple slapstick humor, it's strictly for the littlest tykes…

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Review of Jupiter Ascending (2015)

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

Sees no need to engage metaphor or dispense with cliché, so when you haven't seen it before, you can't believe what you're seeing…

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Review of Gone Too Far! (2014)

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

Something like a Shakespearean comedy, full of highly amusing, sharply drawn characters and offering wicked insight into how identity is shaped…

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Review of The Devil's Violinist (2013)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 03 Feb 2015

A hilariously histrionic depiction of 19th-century superstar violinist Niccolò Paganini's rise to fame, far more Monty Python than Mozart…

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Review of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

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

I cannot recall a film that left me with such a sour taste in my mouth by its end. Does the movie deliberately defy itself with obnoxious intent…

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Review of Bad Hair (2014)

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

A heartbreaking child's-eye view of the moment when it begins to dawn that the world is going to be unimaginably cruel to a nonconformist…

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