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Review of Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 28 Jul 2016

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey goes awry, however, in seeking to entertain two different audiences -- fans of Excellent Adventure and the children…

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Review of Pure Country (1992)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 17 May 2016

Strait gives an uncertain performance, full of blatantly rehearsed reactions and stoic delivery…

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Review of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

By Nick Vadala (13) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 05 Feb 2016

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is fun and funny, if lacking the zombie element that garnered its source novel so much attention…

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Review of Concussion (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 24 Dec 2015

Landesman has a weakness for pointedly stirring speeches, and a few scenes trip over themselves…

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Review of The Big Short (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 23 Dec 2015

A gonzo crash course on the finer points of finance and fraud, set forth while we absorb the funny, infuriating true story of the men who beat…

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Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 16 Dec 2015

Abrams is a hyper-competent entertainer, and a fan, with an astute understanding of what made the original trilogy appealing…

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Review of In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 11 Dec 2015

It's shrewd filmmaking - Howard understands he's showing these grisly images to a modern audience that will recoil, but he also manages to…

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Review of Trumbo (2007)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 25 Nov 2015

Cranston is theatrical and showy as Trumbo - his performance seems to come though his cigarette holder…

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Review of Trumbo (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 25 Nov 2015

Cranston is theatrical and showy as Trumbo - his performance seems to come though his cigarette holder…

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Review of The Good Dinosaur (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 25 Nov 2015

The jokes and the visuals carry us to the satisfying conclusion, which closes the circle around classic Pixar/Disney themes of friendship and family…

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Review of Creed (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 25 Nov 2015

A movie that reminds us why we loved the original, made by people who obviously cherish it as much as we do…

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Review of By the Sea (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 20 Nov 2015

I spent the hours ... counting the times Jolie's dialogue seemed to arrive in the form of a capsule review. Am I really this dull…

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Review of The Night Before (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 20 Nov 2015

Night Before bumps along in hit-or-miss fashion before finally locating the last refuge of the gag-starved comedy: celebrity cameos…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 20 Nov 2015

The movie is grisly, relentless and as pissed-off as Everdeen, now alienated and more focused than ever on bloody revenge…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 20 Nov 2015

How, with so little surface abrasiveness and such an absence of apparent conflict, does Brooklyn maintain its strong emotional hold…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 20 Nov 2015

How, with so little surface abrasiveness and such an absence of apparent conflict, does Brooklyn maintain its strong emotional hold…

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Review of Spotlight (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 13 Nov 2015

[A] taut, quietly thrilling investigative procedural, each scene a small marvel of solid writing and acting…

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Review of Spectre (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 06 Nov 2015

Craig says he's tired of playing Bond, and it shows. He looks constipated. Maybe they should have called it Sphincter…

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Review of Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 Nov 2015

Tomorrow Never Dies is as overproduced as one of Carver's cable broadcasts -- incredibly noisy, flashy and busy without being terribly exciting…

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Review of Burnt (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 30 Oct 2015

The food looks great, the cast looks great, the dialogue is reasonably snappy, and the movie is happily shameless…

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