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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 05 Aug 2014

What makes James Gunn's scruffier and un-spandex'd band of reluctant heroes so appealing is how they approximate the good-hearted rogues on…

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Review of Miss Granny (2014)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for PopMatters (2,617) on 02 Aug 2014

side-splittingly hilarious but also has a heart…

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Review of Lucy (2014)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 23 Jul 2014

If you surgically grafted a snippet of 'Flowers for Algernon' and a low-end documentary about the human brain onto a Cliff Notes summary of…

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Review of Mood Indigo (2013)

By Bill Gibron (1,013) for PopMatters (2,617) on 21 Jul 2014

Michel Gondry goes all out here, bringing both the fanciful wonders and dire circumstances of our couple's doomed affair to breathtaking, eye-popping…

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Review of The Kill Team (2013)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 20 Jul 2014

During some of these interviews and accompanying footage, The Kill Team seems almost like an autopsy, necessary but sickening to behold…

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Review of The Purge: Anarchy (2014)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 17 Jul 2014

the idea that a half-day of legal savagery would reduce crime or unemployment is ridiculous…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Bill Gibron (1,013) for PopMatters (2,617) on 10 Jul 2014

When coming of age movies are measured years from now, Boyhood will be the benchmark for artistic achievement and cinematic scope…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

By Bill Gibron (1,013) for PopMatters (2,617) on 10 Jul 2014

When coming of age movies are measured years from now, Boyhood will be the benchmark for artistic achievement and cinematic scope…

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Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 10 Jul 2014

Because [Andy] Serkis is able to wring so much pathos out of a furrowed brow or damp eye, 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' seems reluctant…

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Review of Coherence (2014)

By Maysa Hattab (1) for PopMatters (2,617) on 29 Jun 2014

The film generates fear and mistrust with very little in the way of effects, gore or outright scares…

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Review of The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story (2003)

By J.c. Maçek Iii (59) for PopMatters (2,617) on 26 Jun 2014

The film itself still holds up very well as an informative documentary on the life of Barrett for knowledgeable fans and the completely uninitiated…

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Review of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

By J.c. Maçek Iii (59) for PopMatters (2,617) on 26 Jun 2014

While one may expect a little more consistency from a film with such acclaim, consistency is hardly the order of the day when one is making…

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Review of Snowpiercer (2013)

By Bill Gibron (1,013) for PopMatters (2,617) on 25 Jun 2014

This is a terrific, dark dystopian nightmare mixed with flashes of Terry Gilliam-esque absurdity and the filmmaker's own fractured frame of reference…

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Review of Citizen Koch (2013)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for PopMatters (2,617) on 19 Jun 2014

a well-meaning documentary that is essentially unsatisfying because it takes on too many issues and allots its screen time unwisely…

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Review of Jersey Boys (2014)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 19 Jun 2014

Clint Eastwood's bland band biopic approach drains the energy from the stage version of this blockbuster razzmatazz jukebox musical…

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Review of Willow Creek (2013)

By Bill Gibron (1,013) for PopMatters (2,617) on 04 Jun 2014

One of the best things about Willow Creek is that it represents someone's unwavering vision, and in today's commodity oriented movie marketplace,…

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Review of Filth (2013)

By Bill Gibron (1,013) for PopMatters (2,617) on 28 May 2014

Without (McAvoy), a movie like Filth would fail to find any real value whatsoever…

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Review of Across 110th Street (1972)

By Christopher Sieving (1) for PopMatters (2,617) on 23 May 2014

Violence, especially violence at the expense of the black community, has seldom been more candidly dissected and critiqued in American film…

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Review of Devil's Knot (2013)

By Bill Gibron (1,013) for PopMatters (2,617) on 09 May 2014

There are four definitive movies about the West Memphis Three. The Devil's Knot is not one of them…

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Review of Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (2014)

By Marisa Lascala (3) for PopMatters (2,617) on 04 May 2014

Lifetime's made-for-TV movie Lizzie Borden Took an Axe covers the events of the murder and ensuing trial, but doesn't really get any deeper…

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