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Review of Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 May 2013

Abrams gets considerable help from a cast who go after their roles with great zest…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 07 May 2013

It is DiCaprio who really burrows into the soul and the marrow of a classic. Luhrmann just grazes it…

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Review of Oblivion (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Apr 2013

The mix of gee-whiz gadgetry and the day-to-day routineness of Jack and Victoria's lives is interesting enough, but the film is too glacially…

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Review of 42 (2013)

By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 09 Apr 2013

If you want a sense of a true all-American hero, this film is a fine place to start…

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Review of The Sapphires (2012)

By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 26 Mar 2013

The Sapphires is a bit like a puppy you're trying to house break…

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Review of Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 20 Mar 2013

There's no reason to overthink this. Just leave your brain at the lobby and enjoy 2013's most entertaining thriller yet…

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Review of Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 08 Mar 2013

Oz the Great and Powerful is entirely serviceable family entertainment…

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Review of Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 28 Feb 2013

This grotesque world is imaginatively, magically rendered with heavy stone architecture and a dreary lack of adornment…

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Review of Side Effects (2015)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 07 Feb 2013

A doozy of a Hitchcockian thriller with Jude Law, Rooney Mara and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Effects is a go-for-broke valentine to '80s cinematic…

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Review of Side Effects (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 07 Feb 2013

A doozy of a Hitchcockian thriller with Jude Law, Rooney Mara and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Effects is a go-for-broke valentine to '80s cinematic…

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Review of Amour (2012)

By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 09 Jan 2013

A wrenching film that is sure to bring tears -- a lot of tears -- to your eyes and manages, in many ways, to affirm that love is worth sharing…

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Review of Gangster Squad (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 09 Jan 2013

As they'd say back in the day: Sweetheart, give me rewrite…

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Review of Les Misérables (2012)

By Karen D'souza (30) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 12 Dec 2012

It's hard to resist the movie's wrenching sense of intimacy…

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Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 11 Dec 2012

In a bit of irony, Bilbo Baggins says at the end of the movie: I do believe the worst is behind us. We can only hope so…

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Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 28 Nov 2012

The scenes between Pitt and Gandolfini are the highlights of Killing, with the two actors pivoting off each other with the ease and precision…

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Review of Hitchcock (2012)

By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 27 Nov 2012

Hitchcock once famously said that a good filmmaker should always always make the audience suffer as much as possible…

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Review of Red Dawn (2012)

By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 20 Nov 2012

Remaking an old film is rarely a good idea, but sometimes the idea is so spectacularly bad that the reasoning behind it defies all comprehension…

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Review of Life of Pi (2012)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 19 Nov 2012

With Life of Pi, Lee outdoes himself visually, without a doubt setting a new standard for 3-D, a technology Hollywood has mostly abused with…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 15 Nov 2012

Rather than repeat past mistakes by handling author Stephenie Meyer's supernatural love story with kid gloves, this Twilight cuts loose and…

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 14 Nov 2012

Playbook walks a tightrope in how it portrays mental illness -- deriving humor out of its characters' actions while demonstrating just how…

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