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Review of The Wolfpack (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 18 Jun 2015

In the Truth is Stranger than Fiction file: The Wolfpack, a documentary about six teen brothers home-schooled to the point of imprisonment…

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Review of Testament of Youth (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 18 Jun 2015

Even in this grisly place, Testament is strangely and effectively lyrical…

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Review of Dope (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 18 Jun 2015

The movie, frankly, is a mess in terms of story. Its themes, though, are clear and resonant…

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Review of Results (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 04 Jun 2015

Results seems interested in one day becoming a comedy, and in a few scenes, manages to muster enough energy to be described as droll…

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Review of The Connection (1962)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 03 Jun 2015

It's an overlong, subdued, and generally bland affair, trading Friedkin's of-the-moment urgency for stale period details and technique that…

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Review of The Connection (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 03 Jun 2015

It's an overlong, subdued, and generally bland affair, trading Friedkin's of-the-moment urgency for stale period details and technique that…

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Review of The Connection (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 03 Jun 2015

It's an overlong, subdued, and generally bland affair, trading Friedkin's of-the-moment urgency for stale period details and technique that…

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Review of San Andreas (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 28 May 2015

Ridiculous, but often in that guilty-pleasure, disaster-movie sort of way, wherein we all laugh at the portentous cliches…

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Review of Aloha (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 28 May 2015

Someone has taken Aloha into the editing booth with a chainsaw, handed the chainsaw to Stevie Wonder, given him five shots of bourbon and said…

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Review of Good Kill (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 21 May 2015

Way too much anti-drone argument is spouted here as exposition, especially among the drone operators…

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Review of Lambert & Stamp (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 21 May 2015

The movie loses its early momentum, when Lambert and Stamp so vividly captures the energy of 1960s England, the sounds and images of a generation…

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Review of Hear My Song (1991)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 15 May 2015

What makes these scenes work is the movie's sense of showmanship -- director Peter Chelsom shares Mickey's shameless, entertainment-at-any…

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Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

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

It's action with a purpose - Miller's potent opera of movement becomes a rolling horror-satire of mankind's greed, foolish short-termism and…

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Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

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

Far From the Madding Crowd is stately, handsome, appealingly old-fashioned, and Schoenaerts, with his quiet, broad-shouldered presence and…

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Review of The Age of Adaline (2015)

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

[Ford] Baker turn a fairly tame two-way relationship movie into a more complex four-character piece. It's just as preposterous, but engagingly so…

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Review of The Water Diviner (2014)

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

The Water Diviner takes some strange detours, and the storytelling demands of the sprawling epic get to be too much for Crowe…

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Review of Sariwa (1996)

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

An unpredictable and harrowing story that works on the surface as an unconventional thriller (an intricate plot) and underneath as a powerful…

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Review of Fresh (2009)

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

An unpredictable and harrowing story that works on the surface as an unconventional thriller (an intricate plot) and underneath as a powerful…

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Review of Fresh (1994)

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

An unpredictable and harrowing story that works on the surface as an unconventional thriller (an intricate plot) and underneath as a powerful…

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Review of Hot to Trot (1988)

By Ben Yagoda (18) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 20 Apr 2015

[Hot to Trot] sounded truly awful. It turned out to be worse…

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