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Review of Premium Rush (2012)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Aug 2012

A refreshingly simple stunt-packed, low-budget action movie…

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Review of Cosmopolis (2012)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Aug 2012

Here we have a brainy, sometimes impenetrable director, working from a book by brainy, sometimes impenetrable author…

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Review of Red Hook Summer (2012)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Aug 2012

You will have no trouble picking out the emotional contours of the movie's tumultuous final scenes, and although Peters holds the drama together,…

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Review of Compliance (2012)

By Molly Eichel (91) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Aug 2012

Zobel makes his setting feel immediate and real, from the gum-smacking employees to the dowdy manager who just wants to do the right thing…

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Review of Hit & Run (2012)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 21 Aug 2012

A B-movie throwback, meant to be seen at a drive-in, where you can make out during the dull parts or honk your horn as Arnold runs his poor…

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Review of Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 15 Aug 2012

The compulsive self-blame that follows a breakup feel drawn from life, and lend the movie gravity…

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Review of ParaNorman (2012)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 15 Aug 2012

ParaNorman finds a way to make this night of the living dead play essentially as a comedy…

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Review of Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story (2011)

By Ellen Gray (6) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 12 Aug 2012

Dull beyond the power of even a mammoth opening weekend for the final Harry Potter film to render interesting…

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Review of Gloria: In Her Own Words (2011)

By Ellen Gray (6) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 12 Aug 2012

Stick with this fast-moving, clip-heavy survey course of Steinem's career, and you'll eventually get past the surface stuff…

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Review of The Campaign (2012)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 08 Aug 2012

Some of Hollywood's top comic talent takes on our laughable political system and comes up with something that's curiously short on laughs…

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Review of Ruby Sparks (2012)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 Aug 2012

Written by Zoe Kazan (Elia's granddaughter), who plays the title character, written by Kazan as a pointed inversion of movie formula, and an…

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Review of The Babymakers (2012)

By Molly Eichel (91) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 Aug 2012

The Babymakers has a stronger narrative arc than Broken Lizard's previous films, but that doesn't better serve the gross-out sight gags or…

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Review of Total Recall (2012)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 Aug 2012

I completely lost track of the so-called plot - something about a dystopian dictator and a revolutionary leader, with Farrell as a secret agent…

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Review of The Watch (2012)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 25 Jul 2012

I'll watch Vaughn in anything. It's just that in the case of The Watch, I'm pretty sure I did…

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Review of Step Up Revolution (2012)

By Molly Eichel (91) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 25 Jul 2012

Step Up Revolution is the series' Live Free or Die Hard: There are more explosions and the stakes are laughably higher…

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Review of The Queen of Versailles (2012)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 25 Jul 2012

There are improbably involving human stories here…

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Review of The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 17 Jul 2012

It's overlong, overplotted, but comes together brilliantly in the final moments, sending one of the movies' darkest franchises out on a rousing note…

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Review of Savages (2012)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 04 Jul 2012

Johnson, Kitsch and Lively struggle to make an impression in a movie filled with grand-standing stars, and one questions the work habits of…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 02 Jul 2012

The cast is top-drawer, the movie is competent, but beats are essentially the same, and as a fan of the original, I found that frustrating…

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Review of Spider-Man (1977)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 02 Jul 2012

The cast is top-drawer, the movie is competent, but beats are essentially the same, and as a fan of the original, I found that frustrating…

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