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Review of Allegiant (2016)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 17 Mar 2016

No one in the A-list cast (such as Naomi Watts and Octavia Spencer) will put this film at the top of a resume…

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Review of Beatles (2014)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 26 Feb 2016

This movie will appeal to adults as much as younger viewers…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 19 Nov 2015

The heroine goes out with a whimper in an unusually subdued conclusion for a film franchise that has kept the momentum going often at a roller-coaster…

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Review of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 10 Jun 2015

With its snappy pace and sly sense of humor, this is one of the smartest YA adaptations in recent years and should appeal to a wider audience,…

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Review of Insurgent (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 19 Mar 2015

It speeds past intricate intrigues and sketchy characterizations, moving like a sleek roller-coaster ride, free from clunky exposition…

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Review of Seventh Son (2014)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 05 Feb 2015

The movie's imagination runs riot in the scenery, sets, and costumes in what is an otherwise routine centuries-long feud between good and evil…

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Review of Seventh Son (2014)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 05 Feb 2015

The movie's imagination runs riot in the scenery, sets, and costumes in what is an otherwise routine centuries-long feud between good and evil…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 16 Dec 2014

Jackson's stretched-out adaptation gives off a militaristic bombast. Additionally, what was cuddly on the page is creepy and menacing onscreen…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 20 Nov 2014

Just as the messianic rebel leader Katniss Everdeen has found her footing, the hit Hunger Games film series has become more assured with its…

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Review of If I Stay (2014)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 21 Aug 2014

The life-or-death urgency is underpowered, when a few jolts are needed…

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Review of The Giver (2014)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 13 Aug 2014

For those coming to the film cold, The Giver may feel old hat…

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Review of The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 07 Jun 2014

The film belongs almost exclusively to Woodley. In a delicately balanced performance, she's both low-key and passionate…

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Review of Divergent (2014)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 22 Mar 2014

The film is at its most captivating as the laws of the war-scarred world in a futuristic, decimated Chicago are laid out, and the heroine finds…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 12 Dec 2013

What comes across like a fireside yarn in print has turned into an overlong schlep with extra baggage…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 21 Nov 2013

It's doubtful a viewer will throw his/her hands in the air in exasperation, and in an Effie-like pout, wonder: Why didn't they stick to the story…

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Review of The Book Thief (2013)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 14 Nov 2013

Perhaps it goes without saying, but this is not a typical family film for the holiday season…

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Review of How I Live Now (2013)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 08 Nov 2013

A slimmed down dystopian world at its most bucolic…

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Review of Ender's Game (2013)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 01 Nov 2013

The screenplay hews closer to the book, rather than following a potential franchise template…

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Review of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 06 Aug 2013

{Percy] wants to prove that he's not a one-quest wonder, but this movie franchise-wannabe doesn't escape that dig…

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Review of The Spectacular Now (2013)

By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 29 Jul 2013

The director's attention to well-rounded, non-stereotypical characterization is spread evenly throughout the ensemble…

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