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Review of Love & Mercy (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 10 Nov 2015

Bill Pohlad's Love & Mercy spectacularly chronicles one man's rise-fall-rise in riveting human (and musical) terms…

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Review of The End of the Tour (2015)

By David Frese (73) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 10 Nov 2015

Jason Segel is so good in The End of the Tour you can almost smell him…

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Review of The Walk (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 10 Nov 2015

Even if it didn't feature the best 3-D of any film since Avatar, Robert Zemeckis' The Walk would be a winner for its heady blend of gritty…

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Review of Ex Machina (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 10 Nov 2015

Ex Machina piques our curiosity, lights up our imaginations and sets our nerves a-tingling in ways that few other robot movies can match…

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Review of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

By David Frese (73) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 10 Nov 2015

How to Train Your Dragon 2 rises above its animated peers with more troubling themes, outstanding character design and innovative camera movements…

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Review of The Martian (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 10 Nov 2015

With The Martian, director Ridley Scott and star Matt Damon deliver an almost perfect piece of popular filmmaking, an intimate sci-fi epic…

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Review of Rock the Kasbah (2015)

By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 21 Oct 2015

Kasbah plays like a comedy penned by Donald Rumsfeld…

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Review of Steve Jobs (2015)

By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 14 Oct 2015

Chaos always surrounds the hero in Sorkin's scenarios, where life-changing decisions collide with minutiae…

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Review of The Intern (2010)

By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 23 Sep 2015

De Niro lands his most likable role in decades, easily earning audience support by playing the right guy in the wrong era: a briefcase-toting…

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Review of The Intern (2015)

By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 23 Sep 2015

De Niro lands his most likable role in decades, easily earning audience support by playing the right guy in the wrong era: a briefcase-toting…

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Review of Black Mass (2015)

By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 16 Sep 2015

Whether Black Mass eclipses Donnie Brasco, Blow or Public Enemies remains debatable, but Depp's performance emerges as more memorable…

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Review of The Visit (2015)

By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 09 Sep 2015

Shyamalan opts for jump scares, red herrings and abrupt tonal shifts while the movie ambles toward its telegraphed conclusion…

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Review of The Visit (2015)

By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 09 Sep 2015

Shyamalan opts for jump scares, red herrings and abrupt tonal shifts while the movie ambles toward its telegraphed conclusion…

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Review of The Visit (2015)

By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 09 Sep 2015

Shyamalan opts for jump scares, red herrings and abrupt tonal shifts while the movie ambles toward its telegraphed conclusion…

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Review of We Are Your Friends (2015)

By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 26 Aug 2015

We Are Your Friends will probably date faster than most movies - there can't possibly be a genre more disposable than electronic dance music…

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Review of American Ultra (2015)

By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Aug 2015

With a title that evokes the vague allure of an off-brand cigarette, American Ultra pushes a worn premise with slightly different packaging…

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Review of Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)

By Loey Lockerby (139) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 04 Aug 2015

Shaun the Sheep Movie never quite reaches the heights of the Wallace & Gromit canon, but its joyous energy makes up for whatever the storyline lacks…

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Review of Vacation (2013)

By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 27 Jul 2015

Like Chase in the original series, Helms has a knack for portraying a fundamentally decent guy striving to keep his composure when everything…

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Review of Vacation (2015)

By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 27 Jul 2015

Like Chase in the original series, Helms has a knack for portraying a fundamentally decent guy striving to keep his composure when everything…

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Review of Southpaw (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 23 Jul 2015

Terrific acting and fight film cliches battle to a split decision in Antoine Fuqua's Southpaw, further proof both of Jake Gyllenhaal's awesome…

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