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Review of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 06 Aug 2013

Yes, Percy faces his Charybdis, but...Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters not surprisingly feels more dutiful than creatively energized…

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Review of We're the Millers (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 06 Aug 2013

Mean-spirited to squishy does not a convincing trajectory make...That wouldn't be so much of an issue if We're the Millers weren't such a dismally…

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Review of 2 Guns (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Jul 2013

While we've seen plenty of R-rated action buddy comedies before, the stream of amusing banter here comes with plotting that has a few good…

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Review of Blue Jasmine (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Jul 2013

Blanchett's edgy comic brio, in Jasmine's blithely imperious manner, magically complements her tragic mental fragility and self-defeating desperation…

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Review of The Wolverine (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 24 Jul 2013

Handsome but flatfooted, The Wolverine comes tantalizingly close to working, which makes it all the more disappointing that Mangold comes up short…

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Review of Still Mine (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 24 Jul 2013

Handled with care and patience by McGowan, proves mightily compelling, and deftly sidesteps sentimentality and cliche…

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Review of Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special (2012)

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

Blackout comedy' for the Comic-Con set, the nerd's Laugh-In...all in good fun…

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Review of 20 Feet from Stardom (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 17 Jul 2013

Neville does a good job of highlighting songs that are especially characterized by backup singers, like Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side,…

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Review of Turbo (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 16 Jul 2013

Kids...will probably ho-hum their way through Turbo happily enough and forget it moments later…

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Review of I'm So Excited! (2013)

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

A perverted comedy of manners, with the characters spilling drinks, secrets, and sperm...but coming more from a place of 'I'm going to make…

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Review of Despicable Me 2 (2013)

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

Culminates in a double-music video finish designed to see audiences out in a pop-narcotic laughing-gas daze…

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Review of The Lone Ranger (2013)

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

Prompts 'The Cosplay Kid' of the Comic-Con era of cinema to swallow the sins of our forefathers and the ones we countenance today…

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Review of The Heat (2006)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 26 Jun 2013

The meeting of McCarthy's stinging zingers and Bullock's practiced exasperation almost justifies The Heat, but it's more of a lob than a fastball…

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Review of The Heat (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 26 Jun 2013

The meeting of McCarthy's stinging zingers and Bullock's practiced exasperation almost justifies The Heat, but it's more of a lob than a fastball…

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Review of The Heat (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 26 Jun 2013

The meeting of McCarthy's stinging zingers and Bullock's practiced exasperation almost justifies The Heat, but it's more of a lob than a fastball…

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Review of The Bling Ring (2013)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Jun 2013

True crime with a dash of social satire...Coppola remains mesmerizingly stylish, but...The Bling Ring winds up being skin deep: superficial…

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Review of Fill the Void (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Jun 2013

The film is undeniably a celebration of community, but on Shira, one gets the disturbing whiff of Stockholm Syndrome…

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Review of This Is the End (2013)

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

This type of thing has already been diluted by...Funny or Die...The main difference-and it's not to be underestimated-is that...End is profane…

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Review of Much Ado About Nothing (2013)

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

Whedon goes for a kind of radical naturalism, an understated approach that suggests the characters could be your friends and neighbors…

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Review of In Old Arizona (1928)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 10 Jun 2013

The first major Western in sound...One can occasionally feel the filmmakers showing off the technology, with close-ups of a crying baby or…

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