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Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 23 Dec 2011

The movie feels like a cartoon, brilliantly achieved but utterly shallow…

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Review of The Artist (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 23 Dec 2011

A love letter to silent cinema, Michel Hazanavicius' black-and-white non-talkie is a shallow but hellaciously enjoyable voyage into the past…

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Review of War Horse (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 23 Dec 2011

War Horse is not a movie that tries to cover its tracks, but when it works, you're more than willing to be led by the hand…

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Review of My Week with Marilyn (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 24 Nov 2011

The magic on-set moments meant to make Marilyn's inconstancy worthwhile don't come off as such, which leaves us to wonder just why anyone would…

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Review of The Descendants (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 17 Nov 2011

Payne's exploring new territory, but it also feels like he's holding himself back, attempting to evolve through repression…

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Review of Melancholia (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 11 Nov 2011

A coolly fatalistic reconciliation that not only accepts but embraces Von Trier's mental illness…

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Review of A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 11 Nov 2011

More or less defines the word superfluous…

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Review of The Skin I Live In (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 03 Nov 2011

The Skin I Live In feels like the culmination of a process, and perhaps the beginning of something new…

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Review of Anonymous (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 01 Nov 2011

Emmerich can keep track of hurtling cars and crumbling buildings, but distinguishing between one scruffy Elizabethan and another is apparently…

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Review of Anonymous (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 01 Nov 2011

Emmerich can keep track of hurtling cars and crumbling buildings, but distinguishing between one scruffy Elizabethan and another is apparently…

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Review of Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 26 Oct 2011

Almost opaque in its refusal to reveal its characters' inner lives, but Olsen's quiet, controlled performance is spellbinding even as it resists…

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Review of Terri (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 03 Aug 2011

A compressed parable of the teenage years, sometimes dazzling in its emotional sweep and yet another reason to keep a close eye on Jacobs…

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Review of A Little Help (2010)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 03 Aug 2011

For a movie without much on its mind, A Little Help is impressively determined in its downward spiral, with only the minimum uplift to prevent…

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Review of Salvation Boulevard (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 03 Aug 2011

Unless you've got a thing for watching Oscar winners shriek themselves silly, you'd be better off praying at a another altar…

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Review of Tabloid (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 20 Jul 2011

With its cutesy cut-out graphics and mock-emphatic headlines, Tabloid sends up the hysteria of supermarket-rag coverage, but that's also the…

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Review of Circumstance (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 09 Jul 2011

Perhaps it's unfair to compare Circumstance to the very different Persepolis, but it's hard not to drift off to Marjane Satrapi's more pungent…

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Review of Cars 2 (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 22 Jun 2011

Cars' second lap wisely trades the tepid Americana of the first go-round for a tangier takeoff on globe-hopping spy adventures…

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Review of Super 8 (1988)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 15 Jun 2011

Abrams is great at keeping his balls in the air, but when it comes time to catch them, he's all thumbs…

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Review of The Tree of Life (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 15 Jun 2011

Sections of Malick's expansive, fitfully brilliant, occasionally sloppy film are so powerful that you can only gaze up at the screen in wordless awe…

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Review of Super 8 (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 15 Jun 2011

Abrams is great at keeping his balls in the air, but when it comes time to catch them, he's all thumbs…

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