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Review of Charlie Countryman (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

Far too much of the running time is eaten up by our would-be lovers running through the streets in slow motion to sad-empowering M83 and M83-style…

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Review of 12/12/12 (2012)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

Truly only a jerk would hurl negativity at a film whose entire box office is going to relief funds. But how about some mild skepticism…

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Review of Bastards (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

[Claire] Denis is, among other things, a master of mood, and the mood here is as her grimmest since 'Trouble Every Day…

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Review of How I Live Now (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

How I Live Now' deserves credit for getting pretty close to the brink (and for including actual sex and lots of swearing)…

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Review of The Book Thief (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

[Geoffrey Rush] is the main reason the film earns the heartstring tugs, but he also serves as a key point of distraction from how it simplifies…

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Review of Great Expectations (2012)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

The world can always stand to be reminded, even for the ten thousandth time, of towering art, even from those that include a boring lead who…

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Review of Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

Only the downer ending, which never gives [Ron] Woodroof a big moment of triumph, suggests it's more than a reducing of heady times into a…

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Review of CBGB (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

It's '24 Hour Party People' without the wit and definitely without the love of the music it pretends to lionize…

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Review of Let the Fire Burn (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

Apart from the score and the very occasional basic intertitle to help us along, all we see and hear is footage from the day…

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Review of Nebraska (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

Nebraska' is one of those funny movies that turn emotional, but it slips in moments of unexpected depth…

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Review of Man of Tai Chi (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

[Director Keanu Reeves] cuts too much, but he respects the fighters' abilities - and the viewers' desire to see them…

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Review of All Is Lost (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

Even 'The Old Man and the Sea' had more meat on it. That, of course, is a huge compliment…

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Review of Carrie (2002)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

It hits [the Brian De Palma version's] every beat, but director Kimberly Peirce ... isn't mad about cinema (and cinema history) like De Palma…

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Review of Go for Sisters (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

The first half hour, before the fun even begins, is sharp in a way Sayles films haven't been in ages…

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Review of The Best Man Holiday (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

Do [Terrence] Howard's blue jokes fit in with a subplot that takes a turn for weapie tragedy? Perhaps not, but they're hugely welcome…

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Review of The Armstrong Lie (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

It's good that [documentarian Alex] Gibney doesn't turn [Lance] Armstrong into a martyr, but that's mostly because he doesn't have anything to say…

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Review of Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

It's a film about entrapment, whether by an incompetent, unforgiving bureaucracy or something bigger…

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Review of The Fifth Estate (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

Cumberbatch, rocking white, stringy locks and some alien-like dance moves, does a fine 'SNL' impersonation…

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Review of Captain Phillips (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

In a way it seems like a parody of a [Paul] Greengrass film: His cameras shake and the music swells but the narrative is stuck in neutral for…

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Review of Ender's Game (2013)

By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 14 Nov 2013

There's a tight focus and a drive that's refreshing in our ADD-addled IMAX blockbuster landscape…

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