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Review of GoodFellas (1990)

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

GoodFellas is a movie that savagely and thoroughly obliterates romanticized notions of the Mafia…

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Review of Divergent (2014)

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

The movie, for all of it's post-apocalyptic themes, is at bottom a love story, and Woodley and James are good together…

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Review of Blast from the Past (1999)

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

Blast from the Past is a cute idea that delivers a few good scenes, but not enough to make the movie consistently entertaining…

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Review of Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)

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

Better Living never seems to know how seriously to take Doug's downward spiral - we get mixed signals on its commitment to its black-comedy…

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Review of Need for Speed (2014)

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

I wonder about the potential audience for this movie…

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Review of 7 Boxes (2012)

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

A low-budget but inventive Paraguayan thriller about a delivery boy mixed up with gangsters…

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Review of Dark Days (2000)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 03 Mar 2014

The virtue of Dark Days is that it provides a forum for its subjects, who turn out to be funny, charming, acerbic, annoying, callous, kind…

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Review of Dark Days (2012)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 03 Mar 2014

The virtue of Dark Days is that it provides a forum for its subjects, who turn out to be funny, charming, acerbic, annoying, callous, kind…

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Review of Braveheart (1995)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 24 Feb 2014

Mel Gibson's Braveheart is a rousing, romantic battle epic featuring a cast of thousands, many without heads or arms…

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Review of Pompeii (2014)

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

Pompeiistays unoriginal until the very end, when it finally does something unexpected and, in doing so, becomes a disaster movie that's not…

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Review of Winter's Tale (2014)

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

A story sprinkled with snow and fairy dust…

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Review of RoboCop (2014)

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

The movie has a baseline competence, but it's predictable, dull and utterly lacking in the sort of man-melts-into-machine, electric sheep-ish…

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Review of Chasing Amy (1997)

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

The movie reinforces his gift for dialogue, but his ability to handle actors, compose scenes or keep track of his own story is negligible…

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Review of Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

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

Four Weddings and a Funeral is a rare movie commodity, an adult comedy that takes a mostly smart, mordant approach to such topics as sex and romance…

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Review of Moonstruck (1987)

By Ben Yagoda (18) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 07 Feb 2014

No resistance could overcome the overfamiliarity of the situations in Moonstruck, the corniness of its dramaturgy or the banality of its message…

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Review of Ride Along (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 17 Jan 2014

There are half a dozen good laughs in Ride Along, but the movie could have used a few more, and a plot…

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Review of Dances with Wolves (1990)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 13 Jan 2014

In an age when most movies are made by people who used to shoot commercials or music videos, the panoramic vistas of Dances with Wolves are…

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Review of The Last Emperor (1987)

By Ben Yagoda (18) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 07 Jan 2014

Even though its ambitions sometimes get the better of it, the film succeeds often enough to make us grateful that, even in our MTV age, a director…

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Review of Forrest Gump (1994)

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

Zemeckis has an exuberant sense of humor, an ability to use good ideas from other movies (he steals from Being There and Zelig) and an unmatched…

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Review of The English Patient (1996)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 06 Jan 2014

The English Patient is a modern movie that breathes vivid new life into the cliches of old-fashioned motion pictures, recalling a time when…

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