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Review of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 19 Jan 2015

By the time the movie ends, we don't even know very much more about these two than we did when we started: that they're a pair of privileged,…

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Review of A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 06 Jan 2015

This smart, lean, tough and, yeah, talky flick has been very shrewdly and knowingly directed/adapted by Scott Frank (who wrote The Wolverine),…

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Review of Wild (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 05 Jan 2015

Happily, Wild is scrappy, impressive movie with trippy visuals, a respect for the transformative power of nature, a powerful strong central…

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Review of The Drop (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 05 Jan 2015

Directed flatly and with disappointing tone deafness by Michael R…

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Review of Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 05 Jan 2015

Edge of Tomorrow obviously cost a fortune to make, but it has a light, shrugging, tossed-off air that makes it all the more impressive, let…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 05 Jan 2015

You go in to Interstellar hoping to be mind-blown, thrilled, and smartened-up…

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Review of The Theory of Everything (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 05 Jan 2015

Although it's narrow gauge and barely touches on Hawking's breakthrough theories about time, space and matter, it's really well made and spectacularly…

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Review of The Drop (1965)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 05 Jan 2015

Directed flatly and with disappointing tone deafness by Michael R…

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Review of Godzilla (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 05 Jan 2015

We guess if you're up for a big, state-of-the-art, kick-ass 3-D giant monster movie, Godzilla gets the job done…

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Review of The Drop (2006)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 05 Jan 2015

Directed flatly and with disappointing tone deafness by Michael R…

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Review of Nightcrawler (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 04 Jan 2015

Creepy, nasty, often hilarious stuff, Nightcrawler shows Gyllenhaal exactly where he seems to want to be and having the time of his life while…

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Review of The Imitation Game (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 04 Jan 2015

Cumberbatch does what he can to fill in the blanks and he is the real thing here -- all shyness, rudeness, acid comments, pathos, dazzling…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 04 Jan 2015

As an ode to jazz, to the single-minded pursuit of greatness, and to the agony and exultation of jamming to one's inner drummer, Whiplash hardly…

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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 04 Jan 2015

Gone Girl is out of this world, a powerful reminder of what cool, crazy, dangerous, hugely entertaining things can happen when big studios…

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Review of The Babadook (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 19 Nov 2014

Somehow, Kent takes these tried and true tropes, whacks them on the nose, and conjures something surprisingly eerie, Freudian and jittery…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 01 Sep 2014

Birdman is a raging, exhilarating howl of a satirical comedy…

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

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 01 Sep 2014

Birdman is a raging, exhilarating howl of a satirical comedy…

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Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 18 May 2014

It's state-of-the-art thrill ride stuff of the kind we hope for in superhero movies but seldom get. Bravo…

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Review of Skyfall (2012)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 07 Nov 2012

Skyfall isn't just one of the best-ever James Bond movies…

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Review of Argo (2012)

By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 07 Oct 2012

Affleck, having now directed his third strong feature film after Gone Baby Gone and The Town, works in a solid, gritty, non-show-offy style…

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