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Review of Steve Jobs (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 13 Oct 2015

In attempting to pull back the curtain on a man, reveals behind its own theatrical curtain nothing much worth paying attention to…

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Review of The Martian (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 01 Oct 2015

Perhaps the purest ode to science mainstream cinema has ever produced, a love letter to NASA and STEM education…

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Review of Martian (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 01 Oct 2015

Perhaps the purest ode to science mainstream cinema has ever produced, a love letter to NASA and STEM education…

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Review of Sleeping with Other People (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 28 Sep 2015

Effectively has it both ways, with its dark neuroses and naughty humor giving way to a sweet consideration of the rarity of unconditional love…

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Review of Black Mass (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 15 Sep 2015

Stars Depp in a performance generating awards talk, makes a complicated story coherent without dumbing it down (much), lets a bunch of strong…

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Review of Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 07 Sep 2015

For those who don't yet know of Jobs' dark side, Gibney's documentary will be a useful eye-opener, but those looking to understand what made…

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Review of Time Out of Mind (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 07 Sep 2015

Though it's hit and miss for audiences trying to forget Gere's screen history, Moverman ably serves a slice of homeless life, dramatizing a…

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Review of Grandma (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Aug 2015

Tailor-made for the great Lily Tomlin...Yeah, the circumstances are contrived, but easy enough to accept as long as they're forcing interesting…

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Review of A Walk in the Woods (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Aug 2015

A broad comic tone...The few funny bits and sharp lines amount to fool's gold scattered around a claim that never satisfactorily pays off…

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Review of We Are Your Friends (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 24 Aug 2015

Does not miss its chance to blow...Every bit a screenwriter's idea of what it takes to make it...while accidentally cultivating the pervading…

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Review of The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Aug 2015

[Not] played for cynical misanthropic laughs or as miserable tragedy, but...[in] an honest treatment devoid of the usual rush to judgment…

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Review of American Ultra (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Aug 2015

At times pokes fun at the genre's cliché in amusingly productive ways...More often than not, though, this conspiracy isn't the real deal,…

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Review of Mistress America (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 16 Aug 2015

Like Brooke, the film flies a strange and arresting course: if not quite a screwball, then certainly a change-up pitch…

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Review of A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 12 Aug 2015

Pure mid-period Allen, a muscle-stretching ensemble comedy with dramatic undertones and playful philosophical musings...Allen's characters…

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Review of Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 Aug 2015

Another solid entry in the DCU line, Justice League: Gods and Monsters works best as an entrée into what should be a fascinating and highly…

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Review of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 10 Aug 2015

Honors the original characters just fine, but the leads are lukewarm...the [action] mostly unmemorable ...and the split-the-difference jokey-serious…

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Review of The End of the Tour (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 10 Aug 2015

Its prismatic philosophical and cultural observation...offers plenty of angles on the true value of the subjective fictions and supposedly…

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Review of Best of Enemies (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 04 Aug 2015

Like the debates it concerns, Best of Enemies entertains to a degree, enlightens to another, and asks us to ponder the relative merits of polar…

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Review of Ricki and the Flash (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 04 Aug 2015

That special brand of La Streep mugging-here applied to the character of a hot-mess bar-band deadbeat mom-will wear you into submission until…

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Review of The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 04 Aug 2015

Zimbardo insists he's 'trying to understand how an institution affects an individual's behavior.' Alvarez's own dark study, empowered by potent…

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