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Review of True Grit (2010)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 06 Mar 2011

Does Damon spend the whole movie doing his Matthew McConaughey impression? Yeah…

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Review of Hall Pass (2011)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 06 Mar 2011

Let's just say Indiana Jones riding out a nuclear blast in a refrigerator is no longer the most far-fetched thing I've ever seen in the movies…

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Review of The Mechanic (2011)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 06 Mar 2011

Am I the only one who wouldn't mind seeing Jason Statham play something besides a coolly efficient butt kicking machine…

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Review of The King's Speech (2010)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 06 Mar 2011

Why did Edward abdicate again? What am I, a history professor…

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Review of The Green Hornet (2011)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 06 Mar 2011

Gondry and Rogen walk a fine line between fairly brainless bro-medy and occasionally knowing examination of the superhero genre…

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Review of TRON: Legacy (2010)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 17 Dec 2010

Labeling this film a disappointment really only makes sense if you were expecting it to be good in the first place…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 19 Nov 2010

All Yates has to do is coax decent performances out of his young charges and make sure the fantastical is a fair representaion of what happens…

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Review of Unstoppable (2010)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 18 Nov 2010

A tedious wreck. It's loud, sure, and lots of people look really anxious, but it has to be the most anti-climactic thriller I've seen in ages…

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Review of Due Date (2010)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 05 Nov 2010

If you're jonesing that hard for Hangover 2, this is just going to be the sickly sweet methadone that leaves you craving a better high…

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Review of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 28 Oct 2010

Note to self: when masterminding evil conspiracy with connections to high government offices, store incriminating documents on a laptop without…

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Review of Red (2008)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 14 Oct 2010

That's some serious A-Team physics when you can put upwards of a thousand .50 caliber rounds into a bunch of cars and not even wound anyone…

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Review of Red (1993)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 14 Oct 2010

That's some serious A-Team physics when you can put upwards of a thousand .50 caliber rounds into a bunch of cars and not even wound anyone…

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Review of Red (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 14 Oct 2010

That's some serious A-Team physics when you can put upwards of a thousand .50 caliber rounds into a bunch of cars and not even wound anyone…

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Review of Beyond the Gates of Splendor (2002)

By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for Houston Press (294) on 03 Feb 2005

We can't know for sure who ended up in what afterlife, but the legacy they left behind is certainly admirable…

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