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Review of Life of Pi (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 20 Dec 2012

You could just wallow in the visual lavishness of this movie and not think at all about what it 'means' and be blown away by it…

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Review of The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 20 Dec 2012

[A]chingly lovely... so full of bittersweet melancholy and yet so fixedly hopeful without ever having to touch on the sentimental…

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Review of Django Unchained (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 19 Dec 2012

[A] dark fantasia of the pre-Civil War South that is hilarious, ferocious, shocking, and wise, sometimes all at once…

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Review of Arbitrage (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 17 Dec 2012

For all the satisfying ironies that are dished up... some of what we're served is hopelessly naive…

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Review of Pitch Perfect (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 17 Dec 2012

There's enough charming here to make me wish that the movie had trusted itself enough to know that it doesn't need to dispense grossout humiliation…

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Review of Total Recall (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 17 Dec 2012

[D]irector Len Underworld Wiseman's least hacktackular movie yet, which isn't to say that it's quality entertainment, but it is some solid…

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Review of Smashed (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 14 Dec 2012

[I]t's Winstead who is the real wonder... with an artless authenticity that is at once heartbreaking and heartening…

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Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 10 Dec 2012

[M]ore than a bit like slogging through overly completist volumes of fan fiction, and that is going to bore more casual moviegoers, and also…

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Review of Seven Psychopaths (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 07 Dec 2012

[B]ursting with equal parts exasperation, despair, cultural criticism, and black comedy…

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Review of The Oranges (2011)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 06 Dec 2012

I'm not sure a better cast has ever gone more ickily astray than in this most misbegotten of dramedies…

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Review of I, Anna (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 06 Dec 2012

[A] gloss of edgy noirish elegance cannot disguise the fact that this is yet one more tiresome example of the thriller subgenre that posits…

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Review of Sightseers (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 30 Nov 2012

[A]s relentlessly vicious as Kill List, [but] goes so insanely in the other direction when it comes to comedy -- and when it comes to a self-awareness…

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Review of The Hunt (2013)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 30 Nov 2012

The mass hysteria surrounding child sexual abuse has never seen as compelling or as cautionary an examination as the tragic mess this riveting…

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Review of Trouble with the Curve (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 30 Nov 2012

Poor Clint Eastwood! He's a Gran Torino old coot in a Moneyball world…

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Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 27 Nov 2012

[T]urns a very American mythology of crime and violence in on itself and from that inversion yanks out a mirror with which to show us a startling…

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 23 Nov 2012

[H]alf thrilling, as it always is when a movie does well something The Movies don't typically try to do at all, and half uncomfortable, because…

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Review of Gambit (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 22 Nov 2012

I marveled at how old-fashioned [the humor] is, like it was dusted off from the late 1960s and rushed out for us in the hopes we wouldn't notice…

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Review of Rise of the Guardians (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 20 Nov 2012

There's genuine magic here. Dark magic, even. That's a good thing…

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Review of A Royal Affair (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 16 Nov 2012

Rich people challenging the status quo? Socialism as cool and radical? Is this a fantasy realm? No, it's 250 years ago…

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Review of Up There (2012)

By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 16 Nov 2012

[A] bleakly bitter and super sly black comedy... Burn Gorman is poignant and very funny, in the driest sort of way…

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