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Review of Passengers (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 20 Dec 2016

What begins as an intriguing premise based on high-stakes what ifs shrinks in imagination as the pair begins to face crises akin to a Star…

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Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 13 Dec 2016

Will give die-hard Star Wars fans multiple orgasms...runneth over with Star Wars spectacle…

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Review of Pete's Dragon (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 13 Dec 2016

There's room enough for two Pete's Dragons in this big old world…

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Review of Office Christmas Party (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 07 Dec 2016

Well, why don't you just tell me what you think Office Christmas Party is about, and I'll tell you if you're right. Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh…

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Review of Miss Sloane (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 06 Dec 2016

[Not] a truly thoughtful and credible treatment of the unpleasant realities of Washington lobbying...[but] a hothouse melodrama that teases…

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Review of Nocturnal Animals (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 01 Dec 2016

A moody and deeply unsettling look at a pair of failed relationships, regrets and recriminations, and measures of emotional violence--oh, shall…

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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 29 Nov 2016

In its broad strokes, Manchester by the Sea doesn't explore anything new...[but Lonergan] is the master of telling behavior and conversational nuance…

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Review of Moana (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 29 Nov 2016

When it's cooking, Moana prepares tender, slip-off-the-bone meat on the tried-and-true bones of the Disney formula…

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Review of Rules Don't Apply (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 29 Nov 2016

In his screenplay and performance as Hughes, Beatty offers a canny, sharply drawn, and highly personal take on the billionaire, with strong…

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Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 15 Nov 2016

I have heard the cash cow moo...the sort of movie many will feel obliged to like more than they actually want to clamor right back onto the ride…

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Review of Loving (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 15 Nov 2016

An easy realism and an intimate domestic perspective on events that became consequential to national history...replacing histrionics with a…

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Review of Arrival (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Nov 2016

A science-fiction masterpiece that's largely about our perceptions of time and our struggles to communicate...unexpectedly romantic and profound…

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Review of Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 02 Nov 2016

A gleeful exercise in nostalgia, a fun and family-friendly Batman story in its own right, and a running commentary on the character's flexible…

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Review of Doctor Strange (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 02 Nov 2016

Doctor Strange looks at urban architecture through a twisting digital kaleidoscope, next-stepping from Inception to an M.C…

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Review of The Handmaiden (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Oct 2016

A conspicuously crafty tale...Park's erotic thriller...with its story that, not coincidentally, deals with fetishes-never feels lifelessly…

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Review of Certain Women (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 31 Oct 2016

Reichardt in no way pushes her material, instead giving the viewer the space to live in this space with the characters, observe them and listen…

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Review of Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 18 Oct 2016

Only in a well-populated movie theater can one truly appreciate the sound of silence when Gadot's character boasts she could crack a walnut…

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Review of Horse Feathers (1932)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 17 Oct 2016

The opening ten minutes of Horse Feathers have more laughs than most comedy features muster in their entirety…

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Review of Duck Soup (1933)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 17 Oct 2016

For all its wild comic abandon, Duck Soup has darker implications than the usual Marx Brothers comedy and, as such, feels the most relevant…

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Review of Animal Crackers (1930)

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 17 Oct 2016

More so than any of the other Paramount films, Animal Crackers is Groucho's picture. [Blu-ray]…

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