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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Jul 2014

Boyhood is a cinematic gift, a compassionate and sometimes amusing drama about growing up that extracts truths out of what appear to be life's…

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

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 08 Jul 2014

You have good guys and bad guys on both sides. The audience isn't meant to root for apes vs. humans as much as for certain characters…

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Review of Tammy (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Jun 2014

Tammy is all over the map. But mostly in a good way…

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Review of Earth to Echo (2014)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 29 Jun 2014

The moviemakers tell us there's a bond between these characters, but they don't really show us…

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Review of Violette (2013)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 24 Jun 2014

Few films have conveyed with such understanding about how a creative soul taps into all that interior turmoil and then somehow shape these…

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Review of The Rover (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Jun 2014

The scarcity of expository background took me a few minutes to adjust to…

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Review of 22 Jump Street (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 10 Jun 2014

22 Jump Street realizes its main goal is to be ridiculously fun and that to do so it must be utterly ridiculous, as well as in on the joke…

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Review of The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 03 Jun 2014

Wise and sometimes funny, delicately reminding us to live and love honestly and fully, while we all still have that gift…

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Review of Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 02 Jun 2014

Liman eschews the not-so-subtle we're-killing-our-planet message of similar films to let his movie progress without preaching…

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Review of A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 27 May 2014

If MacFarlane was hoping to make a new generation's Blazing Saddles, he failed amid an avalanche of dumb…

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Review of Cold in July (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 27 May 2014

These unique characters and performances breathe life into the moody world Mickle creates in this vivid, shocking thriller that sticks with…

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

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 20 May 2014

Days of Future Past toys with history, but stays true to its outsider roots, expressing them with conviction and a sense of narrative sure-footedness…

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Review of Palo Alto (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 May 2014

While Palo Alto might not point the teen genre into revolutionary new directions, it does achieve a major goal: Putting its talented filmmaker…

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Review of Neighbors (2014)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 07 May 2014

If you're looking for Neighbors to join Animal House in the annals of great frat house comedies, expect to be disappointed…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 29 Apr 2014

You sense a struggle playing out on the screen, as the movie tries too hard to please comic book fans, to one-up the action of the first film…

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Review of Transcendence (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 15 Apr 2014

While its discussions about supercomputers, transcendence and god complexes send red flags flying about the near future, the story's mainframe…

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Review of Draft Day (2014)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 08 Apr 2014

If success for Draft Day is being entertaining, and pumping up an audience to the point that some viewers will start dreaming about being an…

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Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Mar 2014

It advances the story and respects mythos of its comic book creations, yet isn't averse to taking risks and moving it into bolder directions…

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Review of Divergent (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 20 Mar 2014

For a film about a defiant young heroine discovering she's a renegade nonconformist at heart, Divergent sure colors within the lines of the…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 11 Mar 2014

A sobering message movie that still know hows to tickle us with a goofy ski chase that is joyously and purely Wes Anderson through and through…

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