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Review of Broken City (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 19 Jan 2013

At no point during the film was there a shred of doubt in my mind about where things would end up…

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Review of The Last Stand (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 19 Jan 2013

But you can't let yourself get hung up on, you know, logic and facts and police procedures and *why a guy named Owens is speaking in…

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Review of Jack Reacher (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 28 Dec 2012

I know I'm not the only one who appreciates a lack of ambiguity when watching a dude get his testicles crushed…

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Review of This Is 40 (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 28 Dec 2012

Hey, remember that annoying couple in that Judd Apatow movie about the loser who got the hot chick pregnant? No…

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Review of Les Misérables (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 28 Dec 2012

The songs you expect Javert to knock out of the park end up - at best - bloop singles with Crowe's limited range…

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Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 15 Dec 2012

I prefer my movies to be more entertainment than ordeal…

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Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 01 Dec 2012

So this is our fate, it seems: the endless bureaucratization of every aspect of life, even down to the illegal…

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Review of Red Dawn (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 21 Nov 2012

When they came for the grunge enthusiasts, I said nothing…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 17 Nov 2012

If you removed the endless soulful gazes, this whole series could've been delivered as a two-night SyFy Channel exclusive and wrapped up before…

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Review of Skyfall (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 11 Nov 2012

I wanted to like Skyfall more than I did, which is funny because after the opening sequence, I felt sure I would love it…

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Review of Flight (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 03 Nov 2012

Alcoholism remains a serious problem, but it's hard to take seriously when Zemeckis and Gatis have drenched their story in such rank sentimentalism…

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Review of Cloud Atlas (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 27 Oct 2012

This won't come across as a knock to some, but there are times when Cloud Atlas feels like a sci-fi Love, Actually…

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Review of Argo (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 13 Oct 2012

Anyone who thinks the cheesiness of the proposed Argo's plot and shameless aping of A New Hope is far-fetched has obviously never seen Battle…

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Review of Finding Nemo (2003)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 28 Sep 2012

Gill is Platoon's Sgt. Elias if he'd survived Sgt…

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Review of The Words (2009)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 07 Sep 2012

Let's be honest, Cooper's at his best when playing a jagoff. He's like Bradley Whitford in that respect (maybe it's just the name Bradley)…

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Review of The Words (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 07 Sep 2012

Let's be honest, Cooper's at his best when playing a jagoff. He's like Bradley Whitford in that respect (maybe it's just the name Bradley)…

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Review of Cosmopolis (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 07 Sep 2012

For all the doomsday build-up we get in the first 90 minutes, Packer's primary antagonist turns out to be such a mundane construct you can't…

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Review of Premium Rush (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 24 Aug 2012

Shannon should have made Roscoe P. Coltrane noises the whole time…

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Review of Killer Joe (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Aug 2012

A little slice of Southern Gothic is just what the back room doctor ordered in this summer of explodey superhero movies…

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Review of ParaNorman (2012)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 20 Aug 2012

I appreciate any flick that so capably merges survival horror with throwbacks to '50s B-movies…

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