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Review of Wild (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 12 Dec 2014

It's a nice change-of-pace role for Witherspoon, cinema's most ruthlessly efficient and with-it blonde since Election…

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Review of The Babadook (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 05 Dec 2014

No one likes to think there are limits to a parent's love, especially a mother's - tricky but fertile territory for horror, explored here by…

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Review of Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 26 Nov 2014

The good jokes are very widely spaced, but Day, Bateman and Sudeikis have worked out a viable three-way chemistry, with Bateman playing straight…

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Review of Keep On Keepin' On (2014)

By Jonathan Takiff (8) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 21 Nov 2014

You don't have to be a jazz-head to be drawn in and empathize with the documentary Keep on Keepin' On…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 21 Nov 2014

The series' powerful momentum hardly slows at all during Mockingjay Part 1, carried through by Suzanne Collins persuasive (and still alarmingly…

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Review of The Theory of Everything (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 14 Nov 2014

The Theory of Everything is for everyone who finished Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time and felt they needed more detail about his marriage…

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Review of Laggies (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 07 Nov 2014

[Shelton] lets the comic absurdity of the situation speak for itself while going for something a little deeper…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 05 Nov 2014

At 165 minutes feels both rushed and overlong…

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Review of Nightcrawler (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 31 Oct 2014

A horror movie for anyone who's survived layoffs and pay cuts and been told to work smarter…

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Review of Art and Craft (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 31 Oct 2014

It's hard to dislike a guy who, at his worst, is a man (as Landis puts it) on a philanthropic binge…

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Review of Listen Up Philip (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 31 Oct 2014

The moral of the story? You may admire the work of great artists, but don't date one…

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Review of Before I Go to Sleep (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 31 Oct 2014

Before I Go to Sleep describes the portion of the movie you'll be able to endure before Nicole Kidman's eyes well up for the 40th time, and…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 23 Oct 2014

The movie is technically brilliant, it's beautifully acted and it's an order of magnitude more amusing than anything the downbeat Inarritu…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 23 Oct 2014

The movie is technically brilliant, it's beautifully acted and it's an order of magnitude more amusing than anything the downbeat Inarritu…

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Review of Dear White People (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 23 Oct 2014

A canny, complex and funny campus comedy movie that views race through the eyes of the millennial generation…

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Review of John Wick (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 23 Oct 2014

It's a movie with a stunt-man's heart - real fights, no robots, muscle cars…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 23 Oct 2014

The music is gorgeous, the way Chazelle photographs the musicians is improbably exciting, and every scene crackles with the intensity of fully…

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Review of St. Vincent (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 16 Oct 2014

It's up to Murray to make this character real enough to keep the viewer engaged, and this he does…

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Review of The Boxtrolls (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 25 Sep 2014

No one does depth-of-field like Laika - they make use of the three-dimensionality of the medium like no one else…

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Review of The Skeleton Twins (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 25 Sep 2014

The movie is nicely performed, crisply written, carefully directed - full of images that fold neatly into one another…

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