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Review of Mirror Mirror (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 29 Mar 2012

By toning down his excesses for a mass audience of largely children, the self-billed Tarsem hits his sweet spot, serving up lavish sets and…

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Review of Being Flynn (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Mar 2012

It's simply difficult to throw in with the film's reality-if not its essential story, then its details: Being Flynn feels indie art-directed…

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Review of Footnote (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Mar 2012

Largely concerned with the prickliness and delicacy around legacy, and the attendant patrilineal complications...But it's as much about the…

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Review of The Hunger Games (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Mar 2012

If The Hunger Games on screen doesn't exactly catch fire (as does its hero Katniss Everdeen), its savvy pop culture mash-up and the charge…

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Review of We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 02 Mar 2012

An annoying provocation with too little to say, a serious credibility deficit, a whiff of misandry, and a miscalculated, unseemly gusto for…

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Review of Big Miracle (2012)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 03 Feb 2012

Perhaps the title sets an expectation Ken Kwapis’ movie can’t quite deliver…

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Review of A Separation (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 03 Feb 2012

Above all, Farhadi’s parable teaches that a rush to judgment inevitably turns back on the judge…

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Review of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 20 Jan 2012

Except as a tool for pediatric grief counseling, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close amounts to a fetishization of its own trappings (the boy,…

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Review of Haywire (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 20 Jan 2012

Finds Soderbergh keeping it simple, stupid, by filling the story's hollowness with kick-butt action and elements of style…

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Review of Carnage (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 13 Jan 2012

A slow disintegration of the thin veneer of social niceties, revealing the human animalism underneath…

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Review of Carnage (1984)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 13 Jan 2012

A slow disintegration of the thin veneer of social niceties, revealing the human animalism underneath…

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Review of Carnage (2002)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 13 Jan 2012

A slow disintegration of the thin veneer of social niceties, revealing the human animalism underneath…

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Review of Carnage (2014)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 13 Jan 2012

A slow disintegration of the thin veneer of social niceties, revealing the human animalism underneath…

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Review of Sid and Nancy (1986)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 Jan 2012

Oldman's mid-film music-video performance of 'My Way' before a neon staircase compares favorably-as a revelation of character through performance-to…

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Review of Fright Night (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 06 Jan 2012

While it's unspooling, it has enough visual snap, narrative tension, and humor for a satisfying 'drive-in movie' diversion. [3D Blu-ray]…

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Review of The Guard (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 29 Dec 2011

Self-conscious gestures in the direction of fish-out-of-water comedies, buddy-cop movies and Westerns don't amount to much in and of themselves,…

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Review of The Rocketeer (1991)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 29 Dec 2011

A charmer in its gee-whiz, irony-light resuscitation of the movie serials of the '30s. [Blu-ray]…

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Review of The Guard (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 29 Dec 2011

Self-conscious gestures in the direction of fish-out-of-water comedies, buddy-cop movies and Westerns don't amount to much in and of themselves,…

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Review of We Bought a Zoo (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 23 Dec 2011

Let me begin by saying something nice about Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo: kids will probably like it. Okay, that’s all I’ve got…

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Review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 23 Dec 2011

Whether coolly dispatching a fly or eating a Wimpy burger with knife and fork, Oldman carefully makes every gesture part of his quiet revelation…

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