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Review of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 28 Jul 2015

The story is clear. The characters are appropriately hyper-real, but grounded and their behavior follows logically…

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Review of Magic Mike XXL (2015)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 30 Jun 2015

Magic Mike XXL is what a lot of people expected Magic Mike to be when it came out. And I'm pretty sure there's nothing wrong with that…

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Review of Inside Out (2015)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 17 Jun 2015

It's hard to think of anyone who won't be happy to have had this movie experience. And this is not a middle of the road, safe thing…

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Review of Jurassic World (2015)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 09 Jun 2015

Jurassic World is not like having your eye poked out with a stick. It is loaded to the gills with Stuff…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 23 Apr 2015

It was like Whedon thought about the 1st film and felt it wasn't deep enough, not realizing that its success was its comic book shallowness…

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Review of Focus (2014)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 25 Feb 2015

As an audience, we should be having the same kind of fun that we had in the third act of The Sting. Why aren't we…

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Review of Focus (2015)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 25 Feb 2015

As an audience, we should be having the same kind of fun that we had in the third act of The Sting. Why aren't we…

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Review of Focus (1994)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 25 Feb 2015

As an audience, we should be having the same kind of fun that we had in the third act of The Sting. Why aren't we…

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Review of The Departed (2006)

By Ray Pride (544) for Movie City News (162) on 25 Jan 2015

Screenwriter William Monahan's taut, terse script, minimizes explanations of the many characters' backstory and conflicts, yet his brilliant…

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Review of The Interview (2014)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 27 Dec 2014

A silly, broad, very funny comedy about a couple of close male friends who represented high and low, going on a profoundly stupid adventure…

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Review of Into the Woods (2014)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 27 Dec 2014

It's a shame that work as sophisticated as Sondheim's is left badly interpreted by a director who can't keep up with the subtext…

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Review of Unbroken (2014)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 27 Dec 2014

You can't break him. You just can't. And you won't. And by the end, you won't care if he breaks, but if he feels deeply…

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Review of Big Eyes (2014)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 05 Dec 2014

Big Eyes is a movie of shocking complexity and grace, given how simple it seems on the surface…

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Review of The Apparition (2012)

By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Movie City News (162) on 26 Jul 2014

Dull, dreary, pointless and bad, sporting shock scenes that don't shock, a grisly premise that doesn't make sense, and a meager cast of mostly…

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Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 07 Jul 2014

This film really becomes The Dark Knight to the first film's Batman Begins…

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Review of Jersey Boys (2014)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 20 Jun 2014

WB took the safe road, came in on time and budget (presumably, as Eastwood always does), and made a golem…

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Review of The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 10 Jun 2014

It's a weepie. It can't be something else... a genre more respected. But it does what it does quite perfectly…

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Review of 22 Jump Street (2014)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 10 Jun 2014

It's really all about how these two build a joke on camera. They get it. They top it. Then they get the hell out before you get stop laughing…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

By David Poland (216) for Movie City News (162) on 25 Apr 2014

Marc Webb's Amazing Spider-Man films are quite unlike any of the major box office comic efforts so far…

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Review of Locke (2014)

By Ray Pride (544) for Movie City News (162) on 03 Apr 2014

I'm driving, he says, and the BMW is his cranium, and the voices the voices rocketing within, the car less infernal cage than fevered skull…

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