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Review of Chi-Raq (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 04 Dec 2015

This mashup of rap concert, poetry reading (the bulk of the dialogue is in rhyming verse) and burlesque sometimes slips into preachiness or…

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Review of Creed (2015)

By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 24 Nov 2015

It doesn't muster the pure underdog audacity of the first Rocky, but it does pair some exceptional actors with engaging characters…

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Review of Focus (2014)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

Focus was made by the writing/directing team of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa…

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Review of Still Alice (2014)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

[Julianne Moore] delivers a brilliant performance that buoys Still Alice just when it seems too much to bear. Oscar is waiting in the wings…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

[Belgium's Dardenne brothers] They've never done anything as powerful as Two Days, One Night, featuring Marion Cotillard in what someday may…

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Review of Mr. Holmes (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

It's only at the end, when the ancient detective finally recognizes the simple comfort of holding another person's hand, that Mr…

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Review of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

At least the film ends with a big Bollywood song-and-dance number. But it's too little too late for all but the most die-hard fans of the original…

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Review of Focus (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

Focus was made by the writing/directing team of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa…

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Review of Everest (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

The movie's first hour is a bit slow precisely because the filmmakers refuse to inject conventional dramatic elements…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

It's not overstating the case to say that Dakota Johnson achieves stardom with this role…

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Review of Furious 7 (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

Holding it all together is Diesel, who comes off as a steroid-stoked Buddha; even in the midst of chaos he calmly delivers proverbs in a rumbling…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

In Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, the obvious comfort level between star and director pays off nicely…

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Review of St. Vincent (2014)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

With his feature debut, writer/director Theodore Melfi can be accused of dishing Hollywood cliches, but his cast's sheer good humor and professionalism…

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Review of Dark Places (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

The film looks good (albeit deliberately dark, as if shot through a gray filter) and Flynn's grim world view comes through loud and clear…

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Review of The Gunman (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

The Gunman is generic moviemaking that can't be lifted even by some usually solid performing players like Ray Winstone, Mark Rylance and Idris Elba…

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Review of Spotlight (2015)

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

The subject already provokes rage and/or revulsion without having to endure a step-by-step procedural…

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Review of Irrational Man (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

At its most basic level [Irrational Man] is, like 2005's Match Point, a murder drama. This time around, though, the satisfactions are relatively few…

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Review of Focus (1994)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

Focus was made by the writing/directing team of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa…

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Review of Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

There's nothing of substance here, but there needn't be. It's just pure escapist fun, wittily delivered…

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Review of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

The main problem with The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is its tone…

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