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Review of Spectre (2015)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 06 Nov 2015

Spectre, despite its lush locales and trademark superb action set pieces, is a mostly downtrodden, robotic exercise in wild goose chase plotting…

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Review of San Andreas (2015)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 28 May 2015

San Andreas is lightweight, crowd-pleasing summer entertainment that knows its place and delivers the goods…

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Review of Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 14 May 2015

What the films have going for them are fun characters and clever writing, both of which keep Pitch Perfect 2 from being a lazy rehash of the…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 30 Apr 2015

The law of diminishing returns strikes big-time in Avengers: Age of Ultron, an overstuffed mess of one-note characters, gaudy CGI, and bad one-liners…

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Review of The Age of Adaline (2015)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 23 Apr 2015

For all its melodramatic mopey-ness, The Age of Adaline mostly treads water to its anti-climactic conclusion…

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Review of Unfriended (2014)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 16 Apr 2015

Unfriended is a by-the-numbers, scare-free slasher package that will likely test your patience for watching people yell at each other on Skype…

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Review of McFarland, USA (2015)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 20 Feb 2015

McFarland USA won't win any awards for originality, but it's a prime example of a proven formula done right…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 13 Feb 2015

Fifty Shades of Grey may be the first film in history made specifically for the purposes of hate-watching…

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

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 13 Feb 2015

Fifty Shades of Grey may be the first film in history made specifically for the purposes of hate-watching…

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Review of Still Alice (2014)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 12 Feb 2015

As films about people with devastating diseases go, Still Alice is understated, thought-provoking, and written and directed with a steady hand…

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Review of Jupiter Ascending (2015)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 06 Feb 2015

Jupiter Ascending sure looks nice, but beyond that it's an incomprehensible mess of a story and certainly the last big-budget gasp for the Wachowskis…

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Review of Blackhat (2015)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 16 Jan 2015

The ongoing struggle to make cyber crime an exciting time at the movies continues with Michael Mann's Blackhat, a ridiculous mish-mash of genre…

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Review of The Imitation Game (2014)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 14 Jan 2015

The Imitation Game both brings to life and pays tribute to Turing's history-altering and pioneering work that paved the way for modern computing…

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Review of The Imitation Game (1980)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 14 Jan 2015

The Imitation Game both brings to life and pays tribute to Turing's history-altering and pioneering work that paved the way for modern computing…

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Review of Selma (2014)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 09 Jan 2015

Selma is one of the great emotional experiences of recent years; a fiercely powerful look at one of the Civil Rights Movement's most triumphant…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 05 Jan 2015

Boyhood, which started filming in 2002 and continued off and on for twelve years, is the greatest coming-of-age story ever put to film…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 05 Jan 2015

Boyhood, which started filming in 2002 and continued off and on for twelve years, is the greatest coming-of-age story ever put to film…

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Review of A Most Violent Year (2014)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 29 Dec 2014

A Most Violent Year is a compelling exercise in minimalist intensity, drawing power from characterization and well-paced plotting…

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Review of The Interview (2014)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 27 Dec 2014

Though overlong, The Interview elicits a good number of laughs from its go-for-broke execution and boundless energy…

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Review of Into the Woods (2014)

By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 24 Dec 2014

Into the Woods is eighty minutes of energy and joy followed by forty more of tiresome, by-the-numbers visual effects…

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