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Review of Earth to Echo (2014)

By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 29 Jun 2014

It doesn't come close to being the next E.T., but it does pack enough spirit and fun to make it a worthwhile knockoff…

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Review of Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 26 Jun 2014

The work of a man who needs to do everything in excess - lengthy battles, an absurd amount of low angle shots, painfully blatant product placement,…

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Review of Coherence (2014)

By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 23 Jun 2014

There's more suspense in this low budget dialogue-driven sci-fi thriller than many effect-heavy, $100 million+ blockbuster wannabes…

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Review of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 12 Jun 2014

It's kind of like going to a pet store and being swarmed by puppies; you won't want to leave and when you have to, you'll want to take them…

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Review of The Jazz Funeral (2014)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 12 Jun 2014

A smart indie effort -- a relaxed, shrewdly observed portrait of the crucible a lot of young men must pass through in entering into a functional,…

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Review of Being Awesome (2013)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 12 Jun 2014

Cycles through well-worn clichés of stuck-in-a-rut, cusp-of-thirtysomething frustration, but adds nothing much new or of interest to the emotionally-adrift-guys…

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Review of Burt's Buzz (2014)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 10 Jun 2014

If there was a film school class about burying the lede, it would be difficult to think of a more fitting example than this aimless doc, which…

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Review of The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 05 Jun 2014

It isn't just about letting you have a good cry; it's about inspiring you to appreciate the good in life while you do it…

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Review of Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 05 Jun 2014

Vicious aliens, wicked combat and Tom Cruise charm are all good fun, but what's the point when the story makes no sense…

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Review of Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 01 Jun 2014

A well-intentioned historical drama that gets caught up in the undertow of mawkish melodrama early on, never to fully recover…

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Review of Maleficent (2014)

By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 29 May 2014

When you've got a talented visual effects artist at the helm, iconic source material, an all-star cast and a hefty studio-sized budget to back…

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

By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 22 May 2014

Sentinels, good, bad, future, past, who cares? This movie needs more Quicksilver…

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Review of Forev (2013)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 20 May 2014

There's nothing particularly deep or compelling about these characterizations, and since the film doesn't create its own canted universe a…

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Review of Losing LeBron (2014)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 13 May 2014

This cinematic apéritif is a moderately engaging if also somewhat incomplete emotional survey of a city's psychological health…

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Review of As High as the Sky (2013)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 09 May 2014

The end resting point at which As High As the Sky arrives is a heartfelt one. One merely wishes its path was a bit more deeply carved…

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Review of Last Passenger (2013)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 23 Apr 2014

A runaway-train action thriller that coasts along serviceably for a bit before entering Boredom Station, this British-produced rip-off of Speed…

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Review of Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq (2014)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 15 Apr 2014

A hopelessly insular work [that] affirms the talent of its subject, but frustratingly fails to establish a cleanly delineated backdrop or emotional…

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Review of A Farewell to Fools (2013)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 07 Apr 2014

An extremely low-boil wartime farce, content to wring quiet smiles and silent laughs, that more or less works as a sort of lightly affected,…

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Review of Alien Abduction (2014)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 03 Apr 2014

Eschewing more sophisticated and higher-degree-of-difficulty moodiness for lots of panicked thrashing about, this found-footage horror tale…

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Review of Big Men (2014)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 01 Apr 2014

A kind of true-life, slow-motion disaster flick for the NPR set [which] throws a spotlight on human fallibility, and all the shades of grey…

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