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Review of The Visit (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 17 Sep 2015

Shyamalan doesn't do anything revolutionary here, but he works the found-footage trope about as well as it can be worked, often finding inventive…

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Review of The Visit (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 17 Sep 2015

Shyamalan doesn't do anything revolutionary here, but he works the found-footage trope about as well as it can be worked, often finding inventive…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 15 Sep 2015

Does not shy away from the harsh truths of life, ; but, at the same time, it seeks out and reveals hope and potential in every situation…

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Review of The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 09 Sep 2015

It is ironic that the framing device, which is meant to draw our attention to the constructed nature of it all, doesn't work nearly as well…

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Review of Cop Car (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 02 Sep 2015

Taut, lean, unapologetically gritty and downbeat tale about two runaway adolescent boys who happen upon a seemingly abandoned police car…

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Review of The Gift (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 26 Aug 2015

It is not a perfect film, but it is a strangely powerful one that plays with familiar tropes to reveal darker depths than we might have expected…

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Review of Return to Sender (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 26 Aug 2015

The filmmakers keep the film's narrative trajectory purposefully muddy, which has the potential to create real intrigue-if you go into the…

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Review of Dark Places (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 26 Aug 2015

Maintains enough interest, although it never quite attains the gripping level of intensity to which it clearly aspires…

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Review of The Gift (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 26 Aug 2015

It is not a perfect film, but it is a strangely powerful one that plays with familiar tropes to reveal darker depths than we might have expected…

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Review of The Gift (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 26 Aug 2015

It is not a perfect film, but it is a strangely powerful one that plays with familiar tropes to reveal darker depths than we might have expected…

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Review of The Gift (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 26 Aug 2015

It is not a perfect film, but it is a strangely powerful one that plays with familiar tropes to reveal darker depths than we might have expected…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 06 Aug 2015

Has a definite sleekness to it, but McQuarrie reserves just enough grit to keep it from looking and feeling like a cartoon…

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Review of Trainwreck (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 28 Jul 2015

A nice, redemptive romantic comedy with a lot of F-bombs in it, which by Hollywood standards makes it pretty much routine…

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Review of Ant-Man (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 23 Jul 2015

Treads the line between the funny and the exciting with notable dexterity…

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Review of Creep (2014)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 21 Jul 2015

A just-clever-enough found-footage horror film whose primary asset is not its jump scares or even its mounting sense of dread, but rather its…

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Review of Minions (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 20 Jul 2015

Enjoyable in all the right ways, is just clever enough to stand apart from its predecessors, and doesn't overstay its welcome…

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Review of The Black Stallion (1979)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 20 Jul 2015

Will naturally speak to children, but without excluding those adults who still remember what it was like to be a child and how to see the world…

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Review of Terminator Genisys (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 14 Jul 2015

While you can't say that effort wasn't expended on Terminator Genisys, after five movies, a major theme-park ride, several video games, and…

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Review of Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 13 Jul 2015

The alchemy of Gregory's staging and Malle's direction turn what could have been an exercise in canned theater into something very nearly sublime…

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Review of Inside Out (2015)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 13 Jul 2015

Just as the film itself balances humor and pathos, it suggests that true happiness is not a state of unblemished, perpetual joy, but rather…

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