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Review of Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 20 Sep 2017

The Statesmen are duds, it's often disjointed and distracted by the wrong things and nothing approaches the church scene…

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Review of Beatriz at Dinner (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 20 Sep 2017

At the exact moment Beatriz at Dinner is brought to a believable boil, the film fritters away its final moments on a fugue state…

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Review of The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 20 Sep 2017

Rarely do jagged threads of side-alley stitch jobs show in a major release, riddled with shots of soft (or no) focus…

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Review of The Incredible Hulk (1977)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 12 Jun 2008

One stupid Hulk movie, now a stupidly entertaining Hulk movie…

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Review of The Incredible Hulk (2008)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 12 Jun 2008

One stupid Hulk movie, now a stupidly entertaining Hulk movie…

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Review of The Last King of Scotland (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 19 Jan 2007

Forest Whitaker's performance isn't worth the greatest-of-all-time hyperbole, but the actor is so evil, afraid and human in the role that he…

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Review of Pursuit of Happyness (2005)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 15 Dec 2006

Will Smith's acting earnestness, coupled with the mental hell of maintaining a time-and-money chain that's essential to survival, provides…

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Review of The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 15 Dec 2006

Will Smith's acting earnestness, coupled with the mental hell of maintaining a time-and-money chain that's essential to survival, provides…

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Review of Déjà Vu (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 08 Dec 2006

Basically entertaining, but it disappointingly drops off from a promising start of spiritually poignant, popular-science fun and whiz-bang…

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Review of The Nativity Story (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 08 Dec 2006

For a film about the birth of Jesus, there's nothing particularly joyous or inspiring - just dull, disinteresting details that too strongly…

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Review of The Departed (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 05 Oct 2006

DiCaprio is outstanding, as is the film's first hour…

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Review of The Black Dahlia (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 13 Sep 2006

If only the story could have the same grimy buildup as the windows through which Brian De Palma looks with voyeuristic glee…

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Review of Black Dahlia (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 13 Sep 2006

If only the story could have the same grimy buildup as the windows through which Brian De Palma looks with voyeuristic glee…

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Review of Miami Vice (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 27 Jul 2006

Even as a strictly superficial survey of Michael Mann's world, there's still an electric charge from all its nabs, jumps and gets…

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Review of The Break-Up (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 01 Jun 2006

A love-it-or-hate-it mainstream romantic comedy in that makes a frill-free connection with its audience, whether that audience wants it or…

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Review of Poseidon (2006)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 11 May 2006

Wave hits. Boat flips. Survivors climb. Short movie. Smart move. Good time…

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Review of Munich (2005)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 06 Jan 2006

Featuring compelling characters who converse through casualties, Spielberg's well-paced, stylish and admirably overambitious movie never fully…

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Review of Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 11 Nov 2005

For a rapper who's all about branding, 50 Cent should consider this: His excellent breakthrough record now shares a name with his middling movie…

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Review of Saw II (2005)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 26 Oct 2005

In the interest of the film's themes of absolution, here's a free pass to the half-hearted original for giving way to this subversive brain-jiggler…

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Review of Domino (1982)

By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 12 Oct 2005

A damaging cinematic concussion that's visually and mentally exhausting - borderline punishing - for no reason…

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