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Review of To Be or Not to Be (1942)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 02 Sep 2013

To Be or Not to Be has all the hallmarks of a Lubitsch comedy: a solidly constructed plot, good comic pacing, a light touch, and strong performances…

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Review of Getaway (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 27 Aug 2013

Getaway does inspire escapism, as its title implies, but not in the way the filmmakers had in mind: rather, you’ll be looking for the exits…

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Review of The Grandmaster (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 27 Aug 2013

More than anything, perhaps, The Grandmaster is a feminist tragedy that, at least in this cut, seems to lose interest in Ip Man and pass the…

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Review of Closed Circuit (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 25 Aug 2013

Despite breathless proclamations about 'the biggest, most high profile murder case in British history' and timely trappings of closely held…

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Review of Austenland (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 21 Aug 2013

As a tart analogy for our escapism into literature and romantic comedies, Austenland is, itself, enaging, if not particularly sharp…

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Review of The World's End (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 21 Aug 2013

You can go home again. But it's going to involve a lot of drinking…

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Review of Killing Season (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 18 Aug 2013

Comes full up with heavy-handed signifiers, from Ben's choice of reading (Hemingway...) to a hammered motif of lapsed Christianity (the climax…

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Review of Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 14 Aug 2013

Give this to Kick-Ass 2: it's never boring...Even so, Kick-Ass has lost most of its transgressive charge along with its element of surprise…

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Review of The Butler (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 14 Aug 2013

Despite admirable work from Whitaker and Winfrey, Lee Daniels' The Butler is nearly crushed by its own symbolic weight and its contrivance…

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Review of Jobs (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 14 Aug 2013

Faced with almost three decades of complicated history, Jobs does a fair job of telling the story of Apple and conveying something of what…

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Review of The Spectacular Now (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 14 Aug 2013

A mature film about immature people, tenderly performed by its young leads and skillfully adapted, by (500) Days of Summer screenwriters Scott…

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Review of Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space (1970)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 12 Aug 2013

In many ways, Spearhead from Space is terribly clunky...[but it] remains an historically important adventure and one with recognizable influences…

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Review of Mud (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 12 Aug 2013

A highly personal tale of undergrown men and overgrown boys experiencing the growing pains of love turned unrequited, and the realization that…

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Review of Cavalcade (1933)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 Aug 2013

It's hard not to see Cavalcade today as a corny contraption... [Blu-ray]…

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Review of Cavalcade (2005)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 Aug 2013

It's hard not to see Cavalcade today as a corny contraption... [Blu-ray]…

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Review of Lord of the Flies (1963)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Aug 2013

While showing great fidelity to his source, Brook succeeded in delivering a version of Lord of the Flies that could best be described as psychological…

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Review of Elysium (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 07 Aug 2013

There's a tough-mindedness there that's admirable, even if it's preaching to a mall-multiplex choir…

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Review of Wild Bill (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 07 Aug 2013

With a concept and influences consciously in mind; fine performances by Creed-Miles, Poulter, and Williams; and approving cameos...Fletcher…

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Review of In the Family (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 07 Aug 2013

On paper, In the Family is an 'issue movie'...But in practice, it's a made-to-scale love story and a thoughtful family drama…

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Review of The Driver (1978)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 07 Aug 2013

Hill has remained a steadily stylish presence in the idiom of action cinema…

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