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Review of Death By China (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 01 Nov 2012

Manic and scattershot, Death by China is too overheated to impart its case with surgical precision. It feels, by God, but also overwhelms…

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Review of Photographic Memory (2011)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 01 Nov 2012

Beguiling and homespun -- full of both answers and questions, feelings and wonder…

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Review of 3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 01 Nov 2012

Provided one submits to its base level of intentional ridiculousness, there's some wacky charm to be found in this low-budget comedy of fraternal…

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Review of Compliance (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 01 Nov 2012

Compliance strips bare the fallacy of equivalent free will…

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Review of Sleepwalk with Me (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 01 Nov 2012

Full of shaggy self-deprecation and wistful romantic realization, Sleepwalk with Me is an amiable tale of beta-male discovery…

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Review of Photographic Memory (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 01 Nov 2012

Beguiling and homespun -- full of both answers and questions, feelings and wonder…

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Review of Wild Horse, Wild Ride (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 09 Oct 2012

A solid little snapshot of sub-cultural curiosity -- engaging and big-hearted, if sometimes politely incurious about the disparate motivations…

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Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 07 Oct 2012

A grimy, well orchestrated, coiled-spring crime drama that morphs into a pessimistic disquisition on the systemic nature of corruption in unregulated…

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Review of Butter (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 07 Oct 2012

A heartland-set train wreck of purported satire that is confusingly edited throughout, and full of false moments which betray a lack of rigorous…

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Review of Smashed (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 02 Oct 2012

An unconvincing portrait of downward-spiral alcoholism that trades on surface-level melodrama before finally fumbling away any credibility…

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Review of Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 25 Sep 2012

A compelling documentary that explodes proper and stuffy notions of what a foreign intellectual dissident looks and sounds like…

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Review of Ballplayer: Pelotero (2011)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 25 Sep 2012

Illuminating -- gets into the uneasy combination of moral benevolence and almost parasitic business interest that informs non-familial adults…

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Review of Of Two Minds (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 25 Sep 2012

Swollen with feeling -- an enormously empathetic documentary that highlights the diversity and range of experience within the diagnosis of…

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Review of Of Two Minds (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 25 Sep 2012

Swollen with feeling -- an enormously empathetic documentary that highlights the diversity and range of experience within the diagnosis of…

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Review of Union Square (2011)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 25 Sep 2012

A half-sketched tale of familial floundering, Union Square is a suffocating and pantomimed drama that makes an especially unconvincing and…

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Review of Side by Side (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 04 Sep 2012

A film about film that matters -- one that ably sums up an art form, where we've been and where we're going…

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Review of Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 27 Aug 2012

Heist is a cinematic gut punch, to be sure, but not one entirely devoid of hope…

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Review of Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 18 Aug 2012

An unexpectedly fresh nonfiction tale that rustles up deep feelings of a life stolen -- part docu-mystery, part uplifting valentine about the…

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Review of ParaNorman (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 18 Aug 2012

An inventive and visually engaging melange of Coraline, Monster House and A Nightmare Before Christmas that, its own small way, is also a salvo…

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Review of One Day on Earth (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 31 Jul 2012

Beguiling as well as meandering, but thought-provoking and frequently gorgeous, it's an interesting nonfiction snapshot that's much cheaper…

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