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Review of We Are the Best! (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 27 May 2014

It portrays the kind of rush of unfettered, probably crap inspiration that one relishes before self-criticism and self-doubt kicks in…

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Review of Blended (2014)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 27 May 2014

Blended' is actually one of the 'better' Sandler films, which is to say it's sometimes almost half-tolerable…

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Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 17 May 2014

It's a character-driven comics movie that mostly forgets about the characters as characters…

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Review of The Immigrant (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 May 2014

James Gray is a classicist whose fondness for old movies -- particularly old melodramas -- is apparent in his films' every frame…

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Review of Million Dollar Arm (2014)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 13 May 2014

There's only one way this is going to go, and that's not a bad thing; films like this are essentially comfort food…

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Review of Chef (2014)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 10 May 2014

[Jon] Favreau knows how to shoot food but he also knows how to talk food, and how to shoot the all-encompassing drive of cooking on a line…

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Review of The Double (2014)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 10 May 2014

It feels old-hat but just fresh enough - a hand-me-down vision that you've only mostly seen before…

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Review of Neighbors (2014)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 10 May 2014

It's an embodiment of immaturity and an exploration of it, and if it weren't as funny or as sharp as it is, that might have been a problem…

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Review of Devil's Knot (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 10 May 2014

The rest is pure director-for-hire bland, even if the material would seem to cry out for [Atom Egoyan's] signature brand…

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Review of Godzilla (2014)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 10 May 2014

[I]t features a piece of hurtin' that is likely something you always wanted to see but never knew it - a moment that singlehandedly shows up…

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Review of Palo Alto (2014)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 08 May 2014

Coppola's thing is bottling up the California feel of sunny abandon, then marrying it to that way-station period when high school ends and…

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Review of 42 (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 06 May 2014

42 seems savvier than it tends to let on. A stiff production, it's still enlivened, as it were, by the hilarious stiffness of Ford…

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Review of Belle (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 30 Apr 2014

It appropriates the language of frivolous costume dramas to sneak in passionate politics…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 30 Apr 2014

Returning director Mark Webb…

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Review of Brick Mansions (2014)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 23 Apr 2014

If you can't see [David] Belle do what he does in one take, then it just looks like mere movie magic…

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Review of Locke (2014)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 23 Apr 2014

Locke' does so much right that one can forgive the occasional lapse, if perhaps not the cheap, reductive doozy with which it abruptly concludes…

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Review of Blue Ruin (2014)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 23 Apr 2014

It has more of a kinship with 'Shotgun Stories,' Jeff Nichols' film on a bloody family feud that brings Hatfield and McCoys-esque tussling…

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Review of The Railway Man (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 22 Apr 2014

Instead, we get Jonathan Teplitsky's 'The Railway Man,' which tells it as tepidly and as literal-mindedly as it can muster, revealing the material…

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Review of Transcendence (2014)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 20 Apr 2014

Rebecca Hall['s] impersonation of grief and a crumbling psyche is by far the most film's most human aspect…

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Review of Heaven Is for Real (2014)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 15 Apr 2014

Its debate style could be called 'the argument through victimization': It wants you to side with [its lead] not because he has the better case,…

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